The Rude Pundit - Things That Are Even Creepier Now That We Know Josh Duggar Molested Minors

[meegbear]

How many times do we have to go through this before we understand that the entire industry built around supposedly good Christian families who condemn the rest of us is like a balsa wood dildo? You can enjoy the pleasure for a little while, but that fucker is gonna snap off inside you. Now we have Joshua Duggar, eldest son of Jim Bob Duggar, part of the now-canceled 19 and Counting clan on TLC, which used to stand for "The Learning Channel," but now pretty much means "Totally Lying Criminals." In a joke that is barely worth writing, it was InTouch magazine that discovered that Duggar fondled kids when he was a teenager. We don't know the ages of the girls whose breasts and genitals he fingered, but we know it wasn't consensual. And we know that the Duggar family hid it for at least a year.

Josh Duggar was the executive director of the nutzoid evangelical Family Research Council's Action division, which meant that he was out there in public, meeting politicians and speaking against allowing same-sex couples to marry, among other issues.

Of course, one of the things that such revelations force us to do is to place Duggar's life in another context (see early Bill Cosby routines and writings for how that works). And it makes a lot of what he did creepy - no, creepier - than hell.

1. The Twitter hashtag "#theyfeelpain," which Duggar promoted to lobby for an anti-abortion bill:



2. This quote, which puts a frightening spin on the past:



3. The name of the event "ProLifeCon," which seems more appropriate than ever since Josh Duggar spoke multiple times.

4. This tweet, which begins with what now seems like a reason to call the cops:



5. Let's just face it: Going through Duggar's bizarrely still-available Twitter feed is a parade of horrors, from the "He is risen" proclamations to "Got milk?" to "Once God shows us His will -- we must obey Him instantly and fully! #TotalSurrender."

The point here is not merely schadenfreude for the fall of another family values hypocrite. Christ, we could build bridges with all their bones at this point.

No, the reason this is relevant to our political discourse is because of how many craven politicians and anti-women, anti-LGBT groups hitched their wagons to the Duggars' star. "These people are a real family," we're told. "This is who you should want to be." It's always a lie because it has to be. But so many people believe the lie or weave its web so that it appears to be real. Yet webs can always be destroyed by plucking one strand.

The FRC (motto: "A safe haven for criminals and closet cases&quot issued a tentative statement that was careful not to condemn Duggar, who had made the FRC a shit-ton of cash: "Today Josh Duggar made the decision to resign his position as a result of previously unknown information becoming public concerning events that occurred during his teenage years." And there's the defense: Oh, he was a dumb, horny teenager.

And, hey, at least he didn't want to marry a dude.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/05/things-that-are-even-creepier-now-that.html

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. I now look at the "sideways hug" --

even among family members as a way for the parents bizarre way to try to keep him being aroused by touching the fronts/backs of his sisters. Gack.

[deminks]

2. You wanna know how many conservatoids hitched their wagon to the Duggar star?

Here is a start:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3092839/Political-poison-Duggar-family-s-decade-stumping-Christian-conservatives-question-revealed-lobbyist-Josh-molested-young-girls-teenager-parents-Jim-Bob-Michelle-covered-up.html

I am saving the Brownback and Pat Roberts pics before they are disappeared.

[world wide wally]

3. LoL… The only two I didn't see were Boehner and McConnell

One got drunk at picture time and the other is still on his way there.

[erronis]

7. They were probably already busy with a bit mutual adulation.

Slimey bastards, all of them.

[amuse bouche]

4. From that DailyMAil page

"Montel Williams is the latest star to react angrily against the Duggar family following Josh's confession that he molested young girls when he was a teenager.

Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Montel began his rant by taking issue with the Christian reality star's stance against homosexuality.

'Josh Duggar, a world class bigot, admits sexually abusing young girls - has consistently stated that LGBT folks r danger to kids,' Montel wrote to his 147,000 followers.


As if I needed any more reasons to detest these scumbags

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Cory Booker? WTF?

He's lost my respect now.

[Fritz Walter]

5. How the mighty have fallen

[TNNurse]

15. I would never have called them "mighty"

I have never had one moment of respect for this family. They are wrong about everything. Those children have never had a chance to spend any amount of time with their parents. They older ones are surely raising the younger ones. There are simply not enough hours in the day for parent to spend time with each child.
They use the excuse (though they will not admit it) that all they have to ask is forgiveness and they will go to Heaven. I do not believe in a God who excuses any behavior if you just ask for forgiveness at the end of a despicable life.

Huckabee criticizes the Obamas over MUSIC.....but forgives child molestation and incest???? God will have something to say to him....and it will not be pretty. I despise him but did not think he was a racist but cannot think of another excuse....except of course the President had the nerve to be both Black and a Democrat.....he apparently is bigoted toward both....because a white Republican can be forgiven ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fritz Walter]

16. OK

I should have used the sarcasm smily here.
Agreed with your points.

[samsingh]

6. these hypocrites are destroying lives through their intolerance and then

acting as criminals and sex depraved fiends

[erronis]

8. They can just get on their knees and pray for forgiveness and more $$$$$.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Well, it worked for Jimmy Swaggart. nt

[hifiguy]

10. This one sure got served up to the Rude One

on a tee. And he smacked it out of the park

[Divernan]

11. Josh thought "founding fathers" was "fondling fathers"

[notadmblnd]

21. Home schooling.. It's a hell of an education

[daleanime]

12. K&fuckingR....

[project_bluebook]

13. The problem with republicans and religion is

its not God whispering in their ear, telling them they are forgiven for all their dirty little deeds, its the

[Fred Sanders]

14. FRC, GOP, RW Pundit's Rush to Defend Duggar; Fail to Defend Molested Children Once

[Initech]

17. From now on when people scream about "family values" I'm throwing this back at them.

Josh Duggar set this movement back by at least a century and that's a good thing.

[Dont call me Shirley]

19. Thanks Your Rudeness!

[JaneyVee]

20. Spot on, as usual.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. FRC was an invited participant in the Vatican's Humanum conference in November. Francis the Keynote.

Tony Perkins and the FRC was there, not sure about Josh. Tony said this about the event:
“The atmosphere was almost euphoric as the attendees from six of the world’s seven continents broke from the historic gathering to return to their respective nations renewed in their stand for marriage. The courts may declare otherwise, and Hollywood may depict its demise, but the union of a man and a woman as the natural and enduring definition of marriage will endure until the end.”

"The presence of American evangelicals and the LDS Church was particularly notable. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, and Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, each gave speeches, and representatives from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council in Washington attended. President Henry Eyring of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ first presidency spoke and Elder Tom Perry of the LDS’s Quorum of the Twelve also joined. In the United States, this trio of faiths has worked together to stand against the government’s Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, but it was the first time they were coming together at the Vatican to talk about marriage.
Pope Francis did not spearhead the colloquium, as many casual observers might think. It was organized and led by German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a strong conservative voice at the Pope’s Synod on the Family last month. Müller is the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican group that sponsored the event. Still, Pope Francis gave an opening address to attendees, in which he affirmed the Church’s teaching that children have a right to a mother and a father."
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

[WorseBeforeBetter]

23. #4, LOL

K&R for Rude.