One of the hot topics as of late has been the Duggar family scandal that has broken out when it was revealed by In Touch Weekly (pardon the pun) that Josh Duggar, the eldest child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar -- belonging to an extremist Christian sect known as the Independent Fundamentalist Baptists -- has in fact molested some of his younger sisters and apparently one other girl.
To be fair, I will note that Josh committed these acts of incest and molestation when he was just 14 or 15 years old, and has publicly apologized. While that’s neither an excuse nor a defense, I do have to be fair and remind myself what it’s like to be a hormonal 15 year old boy. Although I have never diddled my sister (or my brother), I was indeed quite horny.
Horny really isn’t the best description for a 15 year old boy. Imagine having a perpetual raging hard-on, all day, every day, and wanting to shtupp everything in sight until you’re about 130 years old. That’s sort of what it’s like to be a 15 year old boy. Granted, 99% of guys between 14 and 130 years old are able to live with these intense urges without fucking his sister.
Most of you are probably aware of the sordid details of this scandal, but perhaps some of you are not. Maybe a few of you are new guys. Maybe you’ve never heard of these Duggar hicks from Arkansas with 19 fucking kids. So, a little background: There is a reality show about a family of right-wing, Baptist fundamentalist yokles from Arkansas, with entirely too many children, thus proving that nearly anyone in this country can have their own TV show. Are we square so far?
Ok, moving forward. Josh Duggar, who is the eldest child of the brood of nutjobs, as has been mentioned above, has (allegedly) molested some of his sisters back in 2002-2003ish, before the reality TV show began production. All of these facts have been revealed by a leaked police report dating back to 2006. I am not entirely certain about this, but it seems that Josh has never served any jail time or has been registered as a sex offender. While the family mentions that he has undergone counseling, it is more likely by “counseling” they really mean praying about it and hoping the invisible sky man makes it all better.
A little bit of irony for you; Josh was until recently an employee of the Family Research Council, a right-wing Christian group that lobbies Congress and promotes “traditional family values” and other socially conservative policies. Can’t help but wonder where fingering your sister while she sleeps fits in to their idea of traditional values.
Anyway, true to form, all of the Fox News Kool-Aid drinkers, from Sarah Palin to Mike Huckabee, have predictably come rushing to the defense of Josh and the rest of the Duggar Clan. (Is Clan the right word…?) Performing feats of verbal gymnastics to defend young Josh’s inexcusable actions, going so far as to claim that Josh and the Duggar family are in fact victims of something called a Liberal Media. No idea what the fuck they’re talking about. What is this “liberal media” of which they speak? Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have themselves admitted that sexual depravity is somewhat common place within their crazy, ultra-conservative, right-wing, nutjob, super fundamentalist Baptist cult. So, no big deal, right? Nothing to see here, folks. Molesting one’s sisters happens all the time, so please continue along with your regularly scheduled programming of buying shit you don’t need on Amazon, and eating shit that’s slowly killing you.
One Texas lawmaker, Bill Zedler, has tweeted “the Left hates the Duggars because they have standards – even if they fall short – they have standards. The Left will not tolerate that.”
That’s right, Bill, the evil, intolerant liberals hate the Duggars because they are giant hypocrites. Glad we got that cleared up. And, by the way, what are these “standards” to which you refer? And by “falling short” I can employ deductive reasoning to surmise that you mean that incest happens to be excluded from these standards. Hate to break the news to you, Bill, but incest and pedophilia and justifying it with religion is not merely “falling short” of some arbitrary standard. It’s called being a sick fuck.
I mean, really, how fucking difficult is it to keep your digits out of your sisters? Do you really mean to imply that you people have ascribed to some sort of moral code that actually has to spell that out?
“Chapter Three, Paragraph Four: Thou Shalt Fuck Thine Sister.”
Give me a goddamned break. Hate to break it to you Christians out there, but you don’t get to play the Christian Persecution card in defense of Josh Duggar. He’s an incestuous pedophile and a predator. He needs professional treatment and he needs to be registered as a sex offender. Period.
I do hate to be Captain Obvious, but the clear double standard here does bear mentioning. Suppose the Dugagr family had been less affluent, or weren’t famous, how would the Right be treating this issue? Suppose Josh Duggar was the son of prominent Liberals? What then? Suppose Josh Duggar was the son of prominent Liberals that are also black? What then, huh? Suppose Josh Duggar was the gay son of black, gun-hating atheist Liberals that also happened to be employed by the ACLU? You and I both know the Christian right would be screaming for Josh Duggar’s immediate execution if any of that were the case, but because he’s a white, affluent male good ‘ol boy from Arkansas, and a member of a fundamentalist cult, he gets not only a pass, but an active and engaged defense by the Right Wing.
How’s that for some good old fashioned Christian Bullshit?