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Finding Redemption in the Josh Duggar Story
Townhall.com ^ | May 25, 2015 | Michael Brown

Posted on 05/25/2015 10:05:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Popman

She also didn’t go to work for the Family Research Council


81 posted on 05/25/2015 12:24:14 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: CatherineofAragon
JimBob kissed Michelle and asked, “Did that turn you on?” Then he got behind her and started grinding his pelvis into her butt. In front of his teenaged daughter and her fiance.

Are you serious?

82 posted on 05/25/2015 12:26:06 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Patriot Babe

Did not cover it up? They did not report it to anyone for over a year, and when they did, it was to a state trooper who they knew, and who did not take any action other than a stern talking to.

Oh, and that state trooper was himself convicted of child porn.

Oh, and all of this was happening right at the start of their TV show. Do you think TLC would have aired the show for so long if the molestation had been properly reported?


83 posted on 05/25/2015 12:26:49 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Benito Cereno

What I thought was creepy were episodes like the one where two of the girls got wisdom teeth pulled. Making money out of your children going through a difficult and scary time is creepy.


84 posted on 05/25/2015 12:31:13 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: jimbo807

Having read most of the responses here....at Free Republic.....I am personally sickened by the braying mob attitude you all are expressing....

Dear mercy......I never thought I would see this on Free Republic

...and I’ve been here 16 years.....

....I can only imagine the diatribe against me after I post this.....
Dear mercy
Anyone who disagrees with you or has a different approach is slammed and shamed into silence,
Is this really Free Republic?

You will not be satisfied until this young man and his family are personally destroyed.

Very sad.


85 posted on 05/25/2015 12:33:20 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I saw the segment that was mentioned and it was creepy as hell.


86 posted on 05/25/2015 12:34:32 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

“The father brought the son to that state trooper back in 2003, immediately after the son returned from the three-month “treatment program.” Click here for page 14 of the police report.”

The state trooper who, despite being a mandated reporter under Arkansas law, did not report the incident and instead gave Josh a stern talking to? That’s the action Jim Bob took to protect his daughters? Ha!


87 posted on 05/25/2015 12:34:43 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Guenevere

It is an online forum where different opinions are expressed.

Here is the essential problem (for me). This isn’t just boys being boys and it was not dealt with appropriately at the time. It is being handled as damage control for political and financial reasons.

The Duggars chose to do this to their family, not me. Now that the cat is out of the bag, they can suffer the consequences they deserve.

The kids are the victims in all of this. That is entirely my point. Jimbob and Michelle are horrible parents.


88 posted on 05/25/2015 12:37:57 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: jimbo807

I can only think of what charges the parents could have faced by covering it up and also, child protective services would have been breaking their door down to remove the kids from the home.


89 posted on 05/25/2015 12:39:57 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: jimbo807

Well, I’m not going to endorse that, LOL. But another factor to consider is whether Josh himself was abused, and if so, by whom.


90 posted on 05/25/2015 12:40:18 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: hsmomx3

Exactly. And there goes the money. So cover it up and hope for the best.

A note tucked into a book is the only reason we know about it. God works in mysterious ways.


91 posted on 05/25/2015 12:41:12 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: Lizavetta
"Are you serious?"

As a heart attack. Just go to youtube and type in "duggars golf course."

92 posted on 05/25/2015 12:41:22 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: CatherineofAragon

I am no prude but that disgusts me.


93 posted on 05/25/2015 12:41:42 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Guenevere
Arrogance and self righteousness is not a pretty thing to observe. But if old Billy Graham can publicly wipe away old
BJClinton's sins and get him reelected, there is hope for this family. I am reminded of that call to those without sin to cast the first stone. Some of these perfect people have made Billy Graham a cult leader.
94 posted on 05/25/2015 12:41:48 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

It was mostly tongue in cheek, but even the Amish let them run wild for a season. I think that was on TLC, too. lol


95 posted on 05/25/2015 12:42:16 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: bigdaddy45
She also didn't’t go to work for the Family Research Council

Well, that's true, but the hypocrisy is still there

Molesting your sister whether you are a professed Christian or a whacked out progressive lesbian shank, like Durham, it still wrong and the left barely made a peep about her actions and basically were like dogs trying to cover up her droppings...

Very few people on the right, even Christian right are going to bat for him, yet the left is demonizing this guy...while their own are barely touched...

96 posted on 05/25/2015 12:45:20 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Lizavetta

Literally rubbing in what they are allowed as parents to do that the kids can’t. Sick and distorted but not surprising when control and oppression seem to be all this so-called family is about.


97 posted on 05/25/2015 12:46:20 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: CatherineofAragon

Just saw it. They are creepy.


98 posted on 05/25/2015 12:46:56 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: hsmomx3
"I am no prude but that disgusts me."

It's the same with me. I knew the Duggars were a bit off, but that shocked me.

99 posted on 05/25/2015 12:47:24 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: jimbo807
IF as you claim their kids are victims, do you seriously think them doing a search on the internet and reading the pious comments about their family is going to heal their wounds?

What goes around comes around, and some posters have a full dish coming their way.

100 posted on 05/25/2015 12:57:03 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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