Twitter restored the ability for users to link to the pro-Phil Robertson site IStandWithPhil.com after it was inaccessible and apologized for what it called a mistake.

Supporters of the suspended Duck Dynasty patriarch accused Twitter last week of censoring the site, which hosts a petition demanding that the network A&E reinstate Robertson to his show, and issue a formal apology to his family and fans. Robertson was suspended from his A&E show after making anti-gay remarks in an interview with GQ, the network announced on Dec. 18.

Twitter users who tried to link to IStandWithPhil.com on Monday received a message saying, "Oops! A URL in your Tweet appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content," Enstars previously reported.

Twitter later lifted the block.

"The URL IStandWithPhil.com was mistakenly flagged as spam tonight, by an outside organization that tracks spam sources. We have restored access and apologize for the error," the social media website said in a statement explaining the mishap.

Faith Driven Consumer, the group behind the petition, said in its own statement Monday that the blocking of IStandWithPhil.com appeared to be intentional, noting that Twitter also blocked links in two other pro-Robertson social media campaigns.

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The petition supporting the Duck Dynasty star begins with accused A&E of "intolerant, discriminatory, and punitive treatment of Mr. Phil Robertson."

"Mr. Robertson's comments in GQ Magazine are simply reflective of a Biblical view of sexuality, marriage, and family - a view that has stood the test of time for thousands of years and continues to be held by the majority of Americans and today's world as a whole," the petition read in part. "The notion that a free-thinking American should be discriminated against simply for expressing a perspective that is in conflict with another is patently un-American and flies in the face of true tolerance and civility."

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