Josh Duggar Accused of Molesting Several Sisters as a Teen: Reports

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Personally I'd want to know what was going on in that family that made the guy treat his sisters that way. I doubt the abuse started with him.

[VOL 425]

Personally I'd want to know what was going on in that family that made the guy treat his sisters that way. I doubt the abuse started with him.

No doubt, You know what they say in Duggard Family, Incest is Best, and Let's Keep it in the Family............

[Saffer 27]

Yeah Jim Bob was probably teaching the young Josh a few things. Sick, vile people. I hope their show is cancelled for good.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Saffer

[decocker 7,198]

Personally I'd want to know what was going on in that family that made the guy treat his sisters that way. I doubt the abuse started with him.

they're independant baptists. from what i've seen, these churches literally breed this sort of thing.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

they're independant baptists. from what i've seen, these churches literally breed this sort of thing.

Well the attitude the parents have about having that many children and all of them are happy etc. It's just wrong. If you have 17 siblings your relationship with each is going to be less emotionally intimate than if you had 1 or 2 siblings.

[decocker 7,198]

Well the attitude the parents have about having that many children and all of them are happy etc. It's just wrong. If you have 17 siblings your relationship with each is going to be less emotionally intimate than if you had 1 or 2 siblings.

same thing should be said for the strained state of the parent/child relationship when there are 17 parent/child relationships to maintain.

i just read that ol huckabee has announced he supports the duggars. the comments on the fb annoucement are a real hoot.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Totally. Whatever they say it's not a normal family.

[Wooderz 314]

There's a very good chance that one of his victims was 4 years old. At the time he had 5 sisters. They were between the age of 12 and 4 and he molested 4 of them.

I just feel for the girls who, in that weird backwards subculture, were probably blamed for tempting him somehow.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Wooderz

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

There's a very good chance that one of his victims was 4 years old. At the time he had 5 sisters. They were between the age of 12 and 4 and he molested 4 of them.

I just feel for the girls who, in that weird backwards subculture, were probably blamed for tempting him somehow.

Details/rumours that have come out have indicated that his eldest sister, the 12 year old, was the only one not molested and that the records are being destroyed because one of the girls is still a minor and has asked that her identity be better protected--the only one of his sisters for whom this is still the case is the one who was four at the time.

He apparently groped them over the course of at least a year and some were asleep and others were molested while he had them seated on his lap, reading to them.

Rumour also has it that, yes, the church DID blame girls for being tempting.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Yeah Jim Bob was probably teaching the young Josh a few things. Sick, vile people. I hope their show is cancelled for good.

Worried that you have these thumbnails;)

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

same thing should be said for the strained state of the parent/child relationship when there are 17 parent/child relationships to maintain.

i just read that ol huckabee has announced he supports the duggars. the comments on the fb annoucement are a real hoot.

Huckabee thinks he had cured diabetes. He is a mentalist.

[zuluweta 250]

I'd love to be a fly on the Duggar family cult wall. Those kids should be treated to repressed memory therapy when they grow up.

[zuluweta 250]

The Duggars Were Always Creepy So Why Did So Many Republicans Love Them?

(Fundamentalism is a Competition and the Duggars won the Christian Right...)

by Amanda Marcotte, Slate, May 26, 2015

The revelation that the eldest son of TLC's Duggar clan, Josh Duggar, had molested a number of underage girls—including his sisters—has created an explosion of attention and outrage. The fury has a sharp political edge to it, because the Duggars are important figures in the world of religious-right activism and Republican politics.

Blogger Tbogg at Raw Story reminds us of the Duggars' standing in this realm with a series of pictures of Josh Duggar posing with Republican politicians. Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz: Posing for a picture with this guy is apparently a requirement to run in a Republican primary. Some of the more far-right Republicans used the Duggars to signal how down they are with the religious right. Rick Santorum, in particular, loved the clan and put themfront and center in his campaign efforts.

Duggar has this much access in part because he was the executive director, at the precocious age of 27, of the Family Research Council's FRC Action, a Christian-right lobbying group that fights against gay rights, reproductive rights, and even the Violence Against Women Act, calling it a “slush fund.”

The FRC is a big deal in Christian-right circles, and therefore it's a big deal with Republicans. Rand Paul,Marco Rubio, Cruz, Jindal, Perry, Bush—the Values Voter Summit, FRC's big annual shindig, is a veritable murderer's row of Republican politicians seeking religious-right votes. In many ways, FRC is the current face of the Christian right in America. Hiring a member of the Duggar family for such a major role in the organization sent a signal that the Duggar family's extremist views fit right into the larger Christian-right message.

And extremist is the right word for it. While TLC's 19 Kids and Counting show spins them as a kooky but ultimately loving family, the reality is that they're part of a far-right Quiverfull slice of the already far-right cult of Christian patriarchy. A big part of their religion is the belief that a woman should, to be blunt, never exercise a moment of sexual agency in her entire life. Prior to marriage, she is not allowed to have sex or even kiss or hold hands with someone. After marriage, she is not allowed to decline sex if her husband wants it. She is not allowed birth control, even if giving birth will kill her.

Now some Republicans are trying to protect the Duggars. Mike Huckabee defended Josh Duggar, accusing the press of “sensationalizing the story.”

Now Arkansas state Sen. Bart Hester is demanding the firing of the police chief who leaked this information to the press. (Hester last made national headlines by trying to argue that it's somehow not discrimination for businesses to refuse service to gay people.) It would seem politically expedient just to cut the Duggars loose and, if possible, pretend never to have met them, but such is the love that the Duggars inspire in the Christian right that diehards are still out there going to bat for them.

Such is the nature of culture-war politics. While most Christian conservatives reject the Quiverfull lifestyle for themselves, the Duggars' extremism elicited admiration and maybe a little envy among the ranks. Fundamentalism, regardless of the religion, always has a whiff of competition to it. Just as urban liberals compete to see who can eat the most organic food and libertarian types race to see who can have the most polluting truck, Christian conservatives compete to see who can deny women's autonomy the hardest. But perhaps now Republicans will learn a lesson about the dangers of embracing religious extremists.

Amanda Marcotte is a Brooklyn-based writer and DoubleX contributor. She also writes regularly for the Daily Beast, AlterNet, and USA Today.

Link to article - http://tinyurl.com/od3ewmz

Edited June 2, 2015 by zuluweta

[spookyturtle 9,465]

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids, her uterus fell out.

[zuluweta 250]

AKA prolapse.