The Duggar family hypocrisy

by Simon 11 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Simon

  Another christian child-abuse scandal in the news is the Duggar family of "19 kids and counting" fame.

  Their show has been pulled after it emerged that the uber-christian family who are seen to promote right-wing christian values covered up abuse within their family and that of other victims by one of their family

  Some values. Once again the only value that seems to really matter to the religious is appearance..

  Good riddance to hypocritical zealots.

  They have campaigned against LGBT as being threats to children and describing them as sexual predators all the while knowing that they have their own dirty secret. They also only notified the authorities about the repeated / multiple incidents after waiting a year but this was only a trooper who was a family friend. They are now serving 50+ years in prison for child pornography.

  Such a nice bunch of people. I hope they don't re-appear on TV anytime soon.
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  truthseeker100

  I watched that show for the first time about two weeks ago.My wife who grew up Catholic said I was being mean judging their self righteous smiles and their interest in the scriptures and their family bible studies. I could just sense they had something to hide.

  Maybe it's my built in BS detector.
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  Marvin Shilmer

  • They are now serving 50+ years in prison for child pornography.

    What? They Dugger family is now serving time for child pornography?
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  sparrowdown

  No, the family friend trooper is now serving time.
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  LisaRose

  I have mixed feelings. I could never stand to watch the show, it was hard to watch people who you know couldn't possibly be what they pretended to be, everything was so.....sickening sweet. That being said, was what they did for their son all that bad? Their teen aged son engaged in horrible behavior, he got found out, he got counseling. He seemed repentant and (supposedly) did not repeat the behavior. Should they have called the police? Were they supposed to announce their minor son's misdeeds to the world?

  I think the show erred in presenting such a fake, plastic version of the family in the first place, which is why they are getting such fall out now. But I wish they would continue the show to illustrate how a family like that deals with a crisis, it might be the first time the series was actually a reality show.
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  Viviane

  That being said, was what they did for their son all that bad? Their teen aged son engaged in horrible behavior, he got found out, he got counseling.

  They sent him to counseling that teaches God will reward you with extra faith and zeal for being abused, that abuse happens because the victim somehow invited it, that you can choose to not be abused sexually or have greater faith (guess which they say is better?) and that the fix for the physical abuse is to dedicate your body to God so you can cast out fear of marriage intimacy.

  Oh, and at the counseling... the founder and leader of the "counseling center" resigned for having inappropriate relationships with over 30 teenagers, the state trooper (member of their church) who kept it quiet was put away for 50 years for child pornography, the brother's founder and one of the counselors at the center was outed for carrying on an affair with multiple secretaries for years and the head of the ministry at the center was let go for getting caught cheating on his wife.

  Some group they got there.

  Should they have called the police?

  Fuck. Yes.
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  Simon

  They say "counselling" but it's most likely just someone having a word with him. But they'd already had a word with him and he'd re-offended. The person they got to have a word with him was looking at child porn himself so one can only imagine how effective it was.

  This is the point - it's not their call to make. If a crime has been committed it should be reported so that professionals can deal with him and the victims.

  At the very least, don't start a reality show announcing to the world how virtuous your family is and how immoral and degenerate other people are when you have that skeleton in your cupboard.

  I have sympathy for anyone who has to deal with their child doing something like that - it must be a very difficult situation.

  But when they turn the family into a media show and use it to promote a right wing christian message I have no sympathy and they deserve to be crucified in public for their misdeeds.

  Mandatory reporting should be the law.
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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Good riddance to hypocritical zealots.

  Amen!
  
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  Simon

  Oh, and at the counseling... the founder and leader of the "counseling center" resigned for having inappropriate relationships with over 30 teenagers, the state trooper (member of their church) who kept it quiet was put away for 50 years for child pornography, the brother's founder and one of the counselors at the center was outed for carrying on an affair with multiple secretaries for years and the head of the ministry at the center was let go for getting caught cheating on his wife.

  Some group they got there.

  Yeah. Anytime some religious nut get's on a soapbox about something you can pretty much guarantee that they are up to their necks in whatever it is they want to chastise everyone else about.

  All they really care about is self-image of themselves and their religion. Actual welfare of children? Not so much.

  Religion in a convenient enabling mechanism for abusers.
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  Viviane

  Yeah. Anytime some religious nut get's on a soapbox about something you can pretty much guarantee that they are up to their necks in whatever it is they want to chastise everyone else about.
  All they really care about is self-image of themselves and their religion. Actual welfare of children? Not so much.
  Religion in a convenient enabling mechanism for abusers.

  My only comment on that entire post is "Spot on, sir." (although it seems from the news they're more likely balls deep into whatever they are complaining about).