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Remember when Jim Bob Duggar said incest should be punishable by death?
suntimes.com ^ | 26 May 2015 | Scott Sutton

Posted on 05/26/2015 7:39:34 PM PDT by Morgana

After last week’s shocking admission that he’d molested his sisters as a teenager, former “19 Kids and Counting” star Josh Duggar has put his parents in quite a pickle.

While Josh has (deservedly) received plenty of backlash from his admission, his parents have also come under heavy scrutiny for how they have handled the situation.

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However, it’s worth noting where Jim Bob, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2002, actually stands on the issue of incest and rape — or at least what he told the public while he was running for office.

According to Gawker, who was able grab a screen shot of Duggar’s old campaign website via web cache, Duggar had this to say about the taboo subject: “… rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.”

(Excerpt) Read more at national.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: arkansas; duggar; election; incest; jimbob; joshduggar; rape
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To: Kazan
Neither. A family with a troubled teen.

An aspiring rapper, just starting to turn his life around.

61 posted on 05/26/2015 11:31:46 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels." --Tom Waits)
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To: Persevero

While I’m sure he knew what he was doing was wrong at the time, I don’t think a 12-14 year old can really understand or appreciate (for lack of a better word) the seriousness of something like that, nor the effect it can have on the girls he molested.

It’s to his credit that he owned up to it. That cannot have been easy under any circumstances. I sure would not want any of my dirty laundry aired, even decades later.


62 posted on 05/27/2015 12:22:16 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Yeah, I noticed that too, and that’s no good either.


63 posted on 05/27/2015 12:26:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Morgana

so what


64 posted on 05/27/2015 5:08:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: metmom

> It’s to his credit that he owned up to it.

Really?? He only owned up to it AFTER the truth came out.

Just a few scant years after he molested his sisters, including a four year old (A FOUR YEAR OLD) when he was 15, he made jokes about incest:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/josh-duggar-incest-joke-throwback-video-article-1.2234724

Does this sound like a remorseful, penitent young man to you? Or does this sound like a child predator whose parents essentially let him get away with it (Jim Bob sent Josh to build houses with a family friend instead of getting real therapy, and the LEO Jim Bob had Josh talk to turned out to be a child pornographer).

I’m continually sickened by apologists for the Duggars on what I thought was a forum for moral, upright, conservative people.


65 posted on 05/27/2015 6:02:22 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: VictoryGal

I didn’t know he was joking about it.

That’s a different matter entirely.

That is not a penitent, remorseful person (I refuse to call him a man. He doesn’t deserve the respect.)


66 posted on 05/27/2015 7:53:02 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Morgana

Not necessarily. He may have murdered Josh if it were not against the law and his mom was not protecting him.


67 posted on 05/27/2015 7:55:31 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I don’t see that information linked anywhere. What I do see is the whole story that is marketed to think the worst. The way words and what words are use effect the imagination and some of these posters here imagination has gone wild. But if what you say is true then what? The story marketed as it is more a trauma than what Josh done? Now the victims are victims again?


68 posted on 05/27/2015 7:58:43 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: Olog-hai

The phrase “old enough to know better” implies that he is also mature enough to drink alcohol, drive a car, vote, join the miitary, live on his own, et al.

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Only when trying to let Josh off the hook.

For the rest of us, it describes what a person of any age should know better than to do.

Like at age 10, one is old enough to know better than to shoplift.

or at age 14, one is old enough to know better than to sexually molest your kid sister.


69 posted on 05/27/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by dmz
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To: the_daug
The way words and what words are use effect the imagination and some of these posters here imagination has gone wild.

Yes, their imaginations are running wild. The real story is disturbing enough as is. But some people are jumping to even worse conclusions, and they're relying on gossip rags for their info.

70 posted on 05/27/2015 10:03:55 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: the_daug

You don’t see that info linked anywhere? Did you look? It’s all over the Internet!


71 posted on 05/27/2015 10:15:21 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Baltimore needs more Armed Koreans)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

It should be said it is a rumor. Defendants are the ones who request expungement.


72 posted on 05/27/2015 1:28:06 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: the_daug

It is not a rumor.


73 posted on 05/27/2015 1:55:10 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Baltimore needs more Armed Koreans)
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To: the_daug

http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/may/22/judge-orders-josh-duggars-record-destroyed/


74 posted on 05/27/2015 1:58:50 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Baltimore needs more Armed Koreans)
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To: the_daug

http://image.newsflow24.com/381/381664/380x220/sex-abuse-crisis-continues-josh-duggar-victim-desperate-to-destroy-damning-police-report-files-motion-to-expunge-in-arkansas-court_1.jpg


75 posted on 05/27/2015 2:00:50 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Baltimore needs more Armed Koreans)
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To: dmz; the_daug; Bodleian_Girl; Olog-hai; GeronL
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76 posted on 05/27/2015 2:47:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

*facepalm*


77 posted on 05/27/2015 3:35:33 PM PDT by GeronL (free short story: http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/free-short-story-proper-care-feeding-of.html)
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To: Chickensoup
Are you aware that this teenager at the time was fingering his four-year-old sister?

He's worse than a molester - he's a pedophile.

78 posted on 05/27/2015 3:38:39 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Bodleian_Girl

What ever the desire she had the gossip mill is not going leave her alone. Who ever took the picture has committed a crime against her.


79 posted on 05/27/2015 5:04:11 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Dunham was 7, her sister was 2. Josh Duggar was 15

So what? That doesn't make either a pedophile. Most children are not motivated by an attraction to children and most do not molest when they become adults.

80 posted on 05/27/2015 5:08:26 PM PDT by Kazan
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