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Lawsuit reveals teen was groomed as personal sex slave in the Duggar family’s movement [View all]
A leading advocate of the patriarchal Quiverfull movement groomed a teenage girl as his personal sex object and then used the purity culture to shame her into silence, according to a lawsuit filed by his victim.
Douglas Phillips resigned last year from Vision Forum and Vision Forum Ministries over what he described at the time as an extramarital affair.
But the lawsuit, reported by Right Wing Watch, revealed more details about this relationship and the ways that women are treated in the Quiverfull movement which has been popularized by the prolific Duggar family and their TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting.
Attorneys claim Phillips, a close friend to the Duggar family and an associate of actor Kirk Cameron, methodically groomed Lourdes Torres since she was 15 years old and led her to believe they would be married.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/lawsuit-reveals-teen-was-groomed-as-personal-sex-slave-in-the-duggar-familys-movement/#.U02Y8_uaQdI.facebook
Douglas Phillips resigned last year from Vision Forum and Vision Forum Ministries over what he described at the time as an extramarital affair.
But the lawsuit, reported by Right Wing Watch, revealed more details about this relationship and the ways that women are treated in the Quiverfull movement which has been popularized by the prolific Duggar family and their TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting.
Attorneys claim Phillips, a close friend to the Duggar family and an associate of actor Kirk Cameron, methodically groomed Lourdes Torres since she was 15 years old and led her to believe they would be married.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/lawsuit-reveals-teen-was-groomed-as-personal-sex-slave-in-the-duggar-familys-movement/#.U02Y8_uaQdI.facebook
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Lawsuit reveals teen was groomed as personal sex slave in the Duggar family’s movement [View all]
cleanhippie
Apr 2014
OP
I think it was a valid line of question but maybe it could have been worded more specifically.
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2014
#14
Begs the question of whether there was a baby in the bath water to begin with.
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2014
#12
What positives come from religion that cannot be had from a secular source?
cleanhippie
Apr 2014
#16
As near as I can figure, you think that merely the act of believing in a deity...
trotsky
Apr 2014
#28
You understand yet won't elaborate on it and instead make a flippant remark?
cleanhippie
Apr 2014
#33