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diabeticman

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Sat May 23, 2015, 10:23 PM May 2015

Duggar Family Mentor Resigns From Right Wing Religious Organization Amid Sex Scandal [View all]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/22/duggar-family-mentor-resigns-from-right-wing-religious-organization-amid-sex-scandal/


The revelation that Josh Duggar is a child molester is currently blowing up the internet. Even worse, is the fact that his family concealed that fact, and all the while, Duggar has been rubbing elbows with a bunch of the GOP’s prized crop of 2016 presidential hopefuls. All in all, it’s not a good day for the sex-obsessed, woman-controlling, gay-hating “family values” crowd.

Well, guess what? Things are about to get even worse in that crazy corner of America, as Bill Gothard, a mentor to the Duggar family, has resigned from the Christian homeschooling organization he ran amid accusations of his sexually harassing more than 35 women and teenage girls. According to Radar Online, the 79-year-old Gothard is the founder of Institutes of Basic Life Principles, which the Duggar family supported and frequented. Of course, the good Christian responded the allegations in the only way such people know how to do: by quoting the Bible, saying that he wishes to “listen to those who made accusations against him.”
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I respect a lot of religions BUT this quiverfull stuff and the religious right (those trying to mix church and state) I cannot stand. I also wonder how all this fallout will effect future election. Are we seeing the slow crumbling of this branch of the republican party?
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