Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson will receive the "Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award," a free-speech award from Citizens United at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Duck Dynasty patriarch sparked a major controversy fourteen months ago, when he made remarks which perceived by many as anti-gay in his GQ interview. Robertson stated that same-sex marriages, homosexuality, and infidelity is a sin.

"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman, and that woman and those men. Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine," Robertson said in his GQ interview in 2013. His candid remark caused his indefinite suspension from their No. 1 hit reality TV show on A&E in November 18, 2013. His suspension caused a huge backlash from the majority of conservatives, Christians and his family members, which consequently lifted his suspension by the network.

"Even when the entire mainstream media demanded he disavow his beliefs and attempted to have him fired from his own hit show for expressing these beliefs, he stood firm in his faith," David Bossie, President of Citizens United said.

Citizens United is famous for a legal argument with Federal Election Commission where the US Supreme Court ruled that blocking the airing of the Citizens United documentary film was a free speech violation.

"When one does not have the freedom to speak out loud and anywhere what one believes, freedom is dead," said Robertson, who will receive an award at CPAC on Feb. 27 in National Harbor, Maryland.

The award was named after Andrew Breitbart, a new-media entrepreneur conservative who died in 2012. The very first Andrew Breitbart award was created over a year ago, and was awarded to Mark Levin, a conservative radio host.

Duck Dynasty is on its seventh season and airs on A&E.