The network for which he works and which pays him and his family well I imagine for being their redneck selfs has every right to expect the 'stars' of the show to NOT offend viewers, and to keep personal viewpoints to themselves. Certainly the patriarch had every 'right' to say what he said. He isn't in jail; he isn't being arrested or flogged or denied any civil rights. His EMPLOYER, who has a compelling reason to have their employees watch what they say (ratings, money, paychecks, etc.), has merely disciplined him for those comments.
As for Rattigan: it is about hate; stop fooling yourself. It's just like the DD patriarch saying he wasn't judging people he just lumped with terrorists and that god would take care of them. You are preaching hate as well. Open your mind; I am assuming you left the Borg. Keep moving away from it. You will like yourself a lot more when you lose the anger, hatred, judgmental attitudes about that which YOU personally think is offensive. Or that you based on what you have been taught or that appears in a book written by old men thousands of years ago. You have freedom of speech on this forum; but I think you are full of hate and bigotry. But attitudes like yours are changing. Fairly quickly. Let it come. And you and those like you (dead men walking) will be viewed as neanderthals a generation from now.