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niyad

(112,435 posts)
Fri May 29, 2015, 08:23 PM May 2015

Guess Who’s Mixed Up In Duggar Family Sex Crimes Now? Hobby Lobby, Of Course!

everybody in this story is the villain


Guess Who’s Mixed Up In Duggar Family Sex Crimes Now? Hobby Lobby, Of Course!

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According to the official police report, after Josh Duggar’s parents found out he was molesting his sisters, and they spent a year doing NOTHING about it, Jim Bob Duggar sent his son for counseling with a “family friend” who was renovating a building in Little Rock, Arkansas. It turns out the program Josh went to was the Basic Life Principles Training Center, led by none other than Duggar family BFF Bill Gothard, the creepy man who, as your Wonkette reported Sunday, “coincidentally has been accused of sexual abuse and harassment by more than 30 teenage girls.” Gothard’s Advanced Training Institute (ATI), the homeschooling cult the Duggars love so much, teaches, among other things, that little girls who get sexually abused probably share some of the blame, for being gross and naked sometimes.

But here’s a fun fact! Arkansas courts ALSO sent juvenile offenders to Gothard’s programs, housed in an old VA hospital in Little Rock, donated by some other good friends, the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby. Yes, THAT Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts store that has very sincere religious beliefs about sex and how ladies shouldn’t do it, except for when they are married, to make babies for Jesus. Sound familiar? But Hobby Lobby also believes, apparently, that if boys do sex to girls, it is because the girls tempted them to do it, so the boys should have a special place to go to learn how to not be tempted to diddle their sisters. So Hobby Lobby gave Gothard this nice building where he could teach that kind of thing:
Shortly after the institute acquired the building, Gothard began renovating the space, saying it would be used for the Little Rock Training Center, which would house “court-referred youthful offenders in the organization’s Bible-based rehabilitation program,” according to an April 2000 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Gothard resigned as president of the institute on March 6, 2014, after being accused of sexual harassment of female employees.

Huh! Wonder how somebody as gross and creepy as Bill Gothard got all that official endorsement from the state, and how theoretically non-religious courts might think it’s okay to send juvenile offenders to a guy who thinks when little boys change little girl babies’ diapers, that the girls share responsibility for any subsequent abuse that happens, because they have VAGINAS and they’re RIGHT THERE. If you are thinking “Hmmm, I wonder if Mike Huckabee has anything to do with this,” you are wearing your thinking pants correctly! It turns out that, as Arkansas governor, Huckabee thought it would be great to use Gothard’s teachings and programs for … just about everything!

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Maybe this is why Huckabee was so quick to jump in and defend Josh Duggar. Maybe Huckabee knew that Jim Bob and Michelle had sent Josh to their mutual buddy and mentor Bill Gothard, therefore everything is All Better Now. So what if Gothard may have sexually abused or harassed 30 girls? What’s important is that they’ve all been redeemed, by Jesus, therefore their sins might as well have never happened.


Read more at http://wonkette.com/586542/guess-whos-mixed-up-in-duggar-family-sex-crimes-now-hobby-lobby-of-course#ISWvl2dHB3siq7gi.99

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Guess Who’s Mixed Up In Duggar Family Sex Crimes Now? Hobby Lobby, Of Course! (Original Post) niyad May 2015 OP
Everything is fine now that the Duggars have releases the explanation video. onehandle May 2015 #1
Hobby Lobby, Huckabee, the Duggars drm604 May 2015 #2
I need a long shower after reading about these creeps. Marie Marie May 2015 #3
I don't even think showers help--delousing chambers. niyad May 2015 #6
The more that gets exposed, the worse it gets. Archae May 2015 #4
. . . niyad May 2015 #5

drm604

(16,230 posts)
2. Hobby Lobby, Huckabee, the Duggars
Fri May 29, 2015, 10:18 PM
May 2015

It's like there's this cabal of crazy right-wing religious fundamentalists, and they all know each other.

Archae

(46,262 posts)
4. The more that gets exposed, the worse it gets.
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:25 PM
May 2015

That family is going to withdraw into itself, or break apart in a major row.

And the people involved who are not already in jail, will end up in jail.

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