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.”
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Yea but do we have any archived on FR??? Like from back when he ran?
It’s amazing that all of a sudden people think there’s such a thing as sin.
This is not a defense but did he actually rape the girls?
This all happened when he was 12, right? It is not “ok” to be molested by a 12 year old. But it’s not the same as if he were an adult.
I favor the death penalty for forcible rape but would NOT favor the death penalty for any child. I consider a 12 year old a child, still.
Hey come on now cut me some slack. I’ve always gone after child molesters/rapists on this forum! Everything from your common scumbag to teachers who molest students! If it’s one thing I can’t stand it adults who harm kids!
He was 14 and 15 years old. Either way he was old enough to know better.
He was 14 and 15.
Not according to any accounts.
um...molestation is not incest.
Incest is when the penis enters the vagina and ejaculates.
There is a possibility of offspring.
I read that this boy was molesting three females in the family. That would be touching, looking...etc.
I did not read that he had sexual intercourse with any of them.
Horrid Christians or pious hypocrites?
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.
It was sexual relations. He was touching them, and coming on to them, in a sexual manor. Don’t get all Monica Lewinsky on me.
Pious hypocrisy arises from allowing such behavior to continue and even giving duplicitous assent to it. Unless more evidence exhibits Mr. Jim Bob’s assent and even tacit encouragement, I cannot tell if it is repetitive and unrepentant behavior.
Oh come on..he knew what he was doing was wrong!
You mean the left that spends their time defending perverts have just discovered sin?
he knew what he was doing was wrong
old enough to know not to molest little girls doesn’t have to be old enough to drive etc
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