# Josh Duggar (Duggar kid 1/19) to be executive director of Family Research Council **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 19, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369 "2013-06-19T16:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/381 "2015-05-28T00:05:38Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > If there’s any good news out of all this, at least 19 (heh) sponsors so far have pulled their advertising support. That includes Ace Hardware, David’s Bridal, General Mills, Payless Shoes, CVS, Walgreens, H&R Block, Jimmy Dean, Behr, Party City, Ricola and Keurig among the biggies. They could always pick up Hobby Lobby as a sponsor. It was Hobby Lobby who donated that building to Bill Gothard, where Josh did is carpentry counseling. ---
**Author:** ![AustinJane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@AustinJane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AustinJane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/382 "2015-05-28T00:42:40Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > If there’s any good news out of all this, at least 19 (heh) sponsors so far have pulled their advertising support. That includes Ace Hardware, David’s Bridal, General Mills, Payless Shoes, CVS, Walgreens, H&R Block, Jimmy Dean, Behr, Party City, Ricola and Keurig among the biggies. I hope this continues. Last evening on TMZ they reported TLC was still not firm on whether they would cancel all showings of the programs. It needs to go. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/383 "2015-05-28T01:27:46Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > And it was “a good movie” that you had to be at least 18 to see. 😉 That just hit me. Rated R movies do not require you to be 18 to see them. “Rated R: Restricted – under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.” So you can be 17, and, under that, you need an adult “guardian” with you. The whole thing was entirely for show. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/384 "2015-05-28T04:24:44Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > What I’m afraid of is what’s been discussed on Free Jinger: they’ll have specials where they make those poor girls tell the world how everything has been made okay because they’ve repented and prayed it all away. ☹ Just more being violated for them. I hope they’re not that stupid. (Which FJ thread is this on? I got lost with so many threads on this!) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/385 "2015-05-28T12:12:49Z")
> [@lel](#): > > I hope they’re not that stupid. (Which FJ thread is this on? I got lost with so many threads on this!) Sorry, **lel** , I’m not sure. I want to say it was in one of the massive “Josh Duggar molestation” threads. Part three, maybe? But you’re right. They’re are so many it’s hard to keep up and I still haven’t read all of four yet because it pretty much just dissolved into speculation because no new hard facts were coming in. Great resource though. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/386 "2015-05-28T12:14:18Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > They could always pick up Hobby Lobby as a sponsor. It was Hobby Lobby who donated that building to Bill Gothard, where Josh did is carpentry counseling. Missed this. How anyone could support Gothard is beyond me. Don’t these people have any shame? Would it be different if it happened to them? Gah. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/387 "2015-05-28T13:18:32Z")
Um, yeah, that’s it exactly. Jim Bob is on record for calling for the death penalty for rape and incest. Except when it’s his son touching his daughters, then, a little hard work and some praying is all that’s required. :dubious: ‘Only some fondling’, ‘in their sleep’, ‘only a few times’, —I seriously don’t know how anyone can believe any of these things. Keeping in mind: Reporting to law enforcement = a year later, to a family friend / sex offender, grossly misrepresented actual circumstances, no investigation at all. Punishment of Josh = praying and some hard labour. Counselling for daughters = shaming, blaming and praying. And it’s only come out now that the SOL is run out, and because they need the record destroyed! These people have wielded power, influence and spin as competently as any Hollywood publicist or professional politician. I don’t believe they have spoken a single word of truth. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/388 "2015-05-29T03:24:11Z")
The officer convicted of child porn is now [saying](http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/duggar-breaking-news-disgraced-cop-who-didn-t-report-molestation-shoots-down-jim-bob-s-story-59235) that he was only informed of one incident, and that he had supposedly only touched one girl through her clothes while she was sleeping. He claims that this was the main reason he decided not to report it. He does also admit that, even if it was just one incident, he now feels he should have reported it anyways, and that he feels extreme guilt for his part in all this. He actually seems to be admitting more guilt than the Duggars themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/389 "2015-05-29T03:34:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > He does also admit that, even if it was just one incident, he now feels he should have reported it anyways Ya \*think \*? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/390 "2015-05-29T03:40:51Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The officer convicted of child porn is now [saying](http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/duggar-breaking-news-disgraced-cop-who-didn-t-report-molestation-shoots-down-jim-bob-s-story-59235) that he was only informed of one incident, and that he had supposedly only touched one girl through her clothes while she was sleeping. He claims that this was the main reason he decided not to report it. > > He does also admit that, even if it was just one incident, he now feels he should have reported it anyways, and that he feels extreme guilt for his part in all this. He actually seems to be admitting more guilt than the Duggars themselves. As much as I think these Duggar freaks should be vilified, if a convicted pedophile told me the sun was going to come up tomorrow morning, I’d tell him to fuck off and die in a fire. ---
**Author:** ![soonerblue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soonerblue/32/3302_2.png) [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/391 "2015-05-29T16:51:33Z")
This is too good not to share. [http://www.people.com/article/jon-stewart-larry-wilmore-funny-die-parody-duggars](http://www.people.com/article/jon-stewart-larry-wilmore-funny-die-parody-duggars) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/392 "2015-05-30T22:02:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar > We’re Ready To Talk About the Molestation > \*\* > > Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are breaking their silence about their son molesting young girls, including some of their own daughters, and they’re doing it on Fox News Channel. > > Michelle says she and Jim Bob will sit down with Megyn Kelly some time next week to, “share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given.” > > This could be a Hail Mary … as we reported, our sources say TLC is leaning toward canceling “19 Kids and Counting.” > > FNC says the interview will air June 3rd at 9 on The Kelly File. So, yeah, it gets grosser. And Fox News, of course. I mean, yeah, if it’s gross - of course, Fox News is there. Wonder how long it will be before Josh gets his own gig there. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/393 "2015-06-02T01:53:57Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > So, yeah, it gets grosser. And Fox News, of course. I mean, yeah, if it’s gross - of course, Fox News is there. Wonder how long it will be before Josh gets his own gig there. Well, a faux news network and a bubble-headed bleach blond are their best shot at spinning the family history of duggary. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/394 "2015-06-02T07:59:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Well, a faux news network and a bubble-headed bleach blond are their best shot at spinning the family history of duggary. REALLY? :eek::eek: I thought it was just _fondli_– oh wait, you said “duggary,” didn’t you? Never mind. I’m goin’ to hell, aren’t I? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/395 "2015-06-02T19:42:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > REALLY? :eek::eek: I thought it was just _fondli_– oh wait, you said “duggary,” didn’t you? > > Never mind. > > I’m goin’ to hell, aren’t I? ☹ [![](https://fakejoshduggar.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wpid-wp-1432830096327.jpeg) ](https://fakejoshduggar.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wpid-wp-1432830096327.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/396 "2015-06-04T02:21:58Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’m expecting someone from the Duggar camp to come forward in the next few days and try to explain that what he did wasn’t really incest. \>.\< As I suggested above, the simplest way to solve the “labeling” issue is to add “duggary” to the language: DUGGARY (dug’-er-ee): The act of sexual molestation of an underage close relative. DUGGAR (v): To engage in an act of duggary. DUGGARER (n): One who engages in duggary. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/397 "2015-06-04T02:45:48Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > As I suggested above, the simplest way to solve the “labeling” issue is to add “duggary” to the language: > > DUGGARY (dug’-er-ee): The act of sexual molestation of an underage close relative. > DUGGAR (v): To engage in an act of duggary. > DUGGARER (n): One who engages in duggary. Perfect. Now add SKULLDUGGARY: the act of concealing the sexual molestation of an underage close relative from the public. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/398 "2015-06-04T04:21:42Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Even if that’s true – and you don’t cite it either – that’s not quite what you said before. > > As a reminder: > > So I’m still interested in a cite for your claim that Jim Bob and Michelle believe that if a woman is sexually assaulted it’s her fault for stirring up desires in the male. [https://defeatingthedragons.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/how-josh-duggar-is-getting-away-with-it/](https://defeatingthedragons.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/how-josh-duggar-is-getting-away-with-it/)] [Here's how the Duggars' patriarchal homeschool world teaches kids to shame sex abuse victims - Raw Story](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/heres-how-the-duggars-patriarchal-homeschool-world-teaches-kids-to-shame-sex-abuse-victims/) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/399 "2015-06-04T04:52:25Z")
FYI your first link is semi-broken. One has to remove the extraneous ] at the end to reach the article. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369/400 "2015-06-04T05:09:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > As I suggested above, the simplest way to solve the “labeling” issue is to add “duggary” to the language: > > DUGGARY (dug’-er-ee): The act of sexual molestation of an underage close relative. > DUGGAR (v): To engage in an act of duggary. > DUGGARER (n): One who engages in duggary. Sadly, most of the girls he molested are also named Duggar. I’m not sure re-defining their last name to highlight their abuse is necessarily the way to go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-duggar-duggar-kid-1-19-to-be-executive-director-of-family-research-council/661369.md?page=21)