Phil Robertson is coming back to "Duck Dynasty" in 2014. The star of the backwoods reality TV had been suspended when remarks he made about gays in GQ caused a storm of controversy. Conservative groups immediately backed the reality TV star's comments. 

Duck Dynasty recently gave the network the distintion of running  the most-watched reality show episode in cable history when show's fourth-season premiere pulled in 11.8 million viewers.

In a statement A&E said "After discussions with the Robertson family, as well as consulting with numerous advocacy groups, A&E has decided to resume filming Duck Dynasty later this spring with the entire Robertson family."

Phil Robertson at first distanced himself from the GQ statements, saying he was a "not a hater," but later said "Sexual sins are numerous and many, I have a few myself. So what is your safest course of action? If you're a man, find yourself a woman, marry them and keep your sex right there...All I did was quote from the scriptures, but they just didn't know it. Whether I said it, or they read it, what's the difference? The sins are the same, humans haven't changed."

A&E pointed out that Duck Dynasty "is not a show about one man's views. It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family...a family that America has come to love. As you might have seen in many episodes. They come together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance and forgiveness. These are three values that we at A+E Networks also feel strongly about." Earlier this week, the Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded meetings with A&E and Cracker Barrel to keep Phil Robertson on hiatus from "Duck Dynasty."

A&E said "We at A+E Networks expressed our disappointment with his statements in the article, and reiterate that they are not views we hold. But Duck Dynasty is not a show about one man's views. It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family... a family that America has come to love. As you might have seen in many episodes, they come together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance and forgiveness. These are three values that we at A+E Networks also feel strongly about."

Jesse Jackson Sr. wanted the ban on Phil Robertson to stand. He demanded a meeting to keep Robertson off "Duck Dynasty" off the air and gave the network a deadline of today. In a statement Jackson Sr. said "It is unacceptable that a personality who has been given such a large platform would benefit from racist and anti-gay comments."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Phil Robertson is worse than Rosa Parks' bus driver. Jackson says that Phil Robertson's anti-gay comments to GQ magazine were more offensive than what the bus driver who tried to force Rosa Parks to sit on the back of his bus in 1955 said. The bus driver was at least following state law.

In a reaction to the "Duck Dynasty" star's comments, Jesse Jackson Sr. said "These statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, more than 59 years ago. At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law. Robertson's statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was 'white privilege.'"

Earlier this month Phil Robertson was put on "indefinite hiatus" by A&E for inflammatory remarks about African Americans and gays, according to Variety magazine.