This Is How the Duggars' Homeschooling Curriculum Allegedly Dealt With Sexual Abuse.

[Skidmore]

Those little girls did not stand a chance. They were taught submission and that they were to blame.

http://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2015/05/holy-shit-how-duggars-homeschooling-curriculum-allegedly-dealt-sexual-abuse

All I can tell you about this tweet is that the Duggars are/were fans of Bill Gothard and that this sexual abuse "lesson" does appear to have been a part of his curriculum at one time.




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[bravenak]

1. Wtf?

[KT2000]

2. in other words

blame the victim
what a bunch of sickos

[cali]

3. profoundly sick and- and I rarely use this word- evil.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. My god...

It really looks like they attempted to actually institutionalize sexual abuse.

[Skidmore]

7. Raises questions about some of these fundamentalist groups, doesn't it?

Think about Warren Jeffs and others like him. How many of these incidents are traceable to this type of teaching. It is frightening that fundamentalists have been actively trying to get sex education in schools replaced.

[diabeticman]

4. Sick, disturbing and not surprised

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. This dumps almost all responsibility on the victim.

It's disgusting and perverse.

[hifiguy]

8. Wow.

Sick, sicker, sickest.

[Solly Mack]

9. And there you have it - a cesspool that creates victims and then blames the victims.

[shenmue]

10. Disgusting.

[City Lights]

11. That is some fucked up shit.

[tularetom]

12. Wow, that's some sick shit

And if anybody tells me they didn't get a creepy vibe all along from Jim Bob Duggar and his inbred tribe of shitkickers, they're either lying or weren't paying attention.

Christ, even the name sounds pervy. Jim Bob Duggar? Gimme a friggin break.

[SheilaT]

13. Number 4. Why did God let it happen?

The answers are creepy.

The other thing I dislike so very much about most religion, is that they say it's perfectly okay for God to do completely horrible things, like allowing child abuse or war or being burned alive. Just on, and on. If God does it, it's perfectly okay.

[gollygee]

14. That's just all kinds of wrong.

Wow.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. Creepy child-abusing reality TV cult

They're David Koresh, minus the doomsday arsenal, but with a national rightwing fanbase

[sheshe2]

16. I think I am going to be ill.

From the comments, Skidmore.

rezme

... and then after having had her body forcibly taken by an abuser, she's told to "give her body up to god" and "place herself on his altar to serve him" *shudder*

[Skidmore]

18. These girls were no less captive than any of those taken in

by ISIS as far as I'm concerned. They were completely and totally at the mercy of Duggar, his parents, the cult they belong to. They literally had no avenue to find help since they were home schooled too. The more I read about this, the more I feel physically ill. How vulnerable they are.

[sheshe2]

19. It has been covered up.

Will anything come of this? The children need a safe haven, Skidmore.

[Skidmore]

22. I agree. Right now they are trapped

until the stated decides to step in. The Duggars were successful at circumventing the law. Hopefully something will be done to ensure their safety.

[malaise]

17. I don't think we've heard the half of this yet

Truth will out

We should thank Oprah for exposing this in 2006

[MrModerate]

20. That is profoundly sick, and disturbing . . .

No wonder Duggar found such a welcoming home at the Family Research Council.

[Solly Mack]

21. Read the part about not reporting it? (#5)

Would they rather had not been assaulted at all or be grateful to have such spiritual strength now - because of the sexual assault? (#8)

Just directing attention.

[Hekate]

23. I feel nauseous. What a prison they've created for girls and women.

It's all the victim's fault, no matter which way she turns.

Honest to gods, I don't know how I would survived if I had been being fed that that toxic message before, during, and after my year of molestation. I prayed then. I prayed a lot. But God didn't cause those events -- a human being did. I never blamed either God or myself; I just tried not to think about it for the next 20 years.

Does God forgive? I'm an adult now, not a child, and my considered opinion is this: we have to ask forgiveness of those human beings we have harmed, not God or Goddess, or the gods. We don't get to lay the blame for our own behavior at the feet of the gods.

Grandmother Hekate

[Delmette]

28. I agree

God can't forgive anything. The 5 young girls he abused and probably raped are the only individuals who can forgive him. But they are brainwashed to believe this is their fault or at least their burden for the rest of their life.

[Skidmore]

29. I agree.

We are utterly responsible to ourselves and others and certainly responsible for how we treat others. We can ask for forgiveness but it does not have to be given and forgiveness doesn't not take away the wrongdoing.

[amuse bouche]

24. But...but...GOD

Religion...it takes the stupid and turns them into stupidest

[MoonRiver]

25. OMG, horrific

Those poor children

[RockaFowler]

26. This is so sick

I can't believe they blame the victim

Oh it's like the "pray the gay" away crap, too.

[MisterP]

27. submission and self-blame? Gothard says if you hit these rock-bottoms,

he says to break out the shovel

http://spiritualsoundingboard.com/2015/03/26/man-shares-personal-testimony-of-how-bill-gothard-used-bible-verses-which-led-to-the-abuse-of-children/
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2015/01/duggars-cult-claims-bill-gothard-followers/
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/04/open-letter-duggar-family-stop-supporting-ministry-bill-gothard-alleged-sexual-harassment/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/
http://magazine.good.is/features/no-longer-quivering-quiverfull-movement
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-playing-good-christian-housewife-almost-killed-me
http://lippard.blogspot.com/2007/12/fundamentalist-legalism-and-murder.html
http://www.recoveringgrace.org/2011/11/tragic-misguidance-gothards-view-on-mental-health-treatment-and-the-petit-family-murders/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Daniel's fate should befall them....

How many presidents have the counseled?