‘Boys Are Curious': Meet The Duggar Defenders Using Religion To Excuse Fondling Your Sleeping Sister

[Purveyor]

Travis Gettys
22 May 2015 at 11:20 ET

Supporters rallied around the Duggar family after they admitted to keeping quiet about their eldest son molesting young girls – including his own sisters.

Josh Duggar, his wife, and his parents issued statements Thursday confirming reports that he had engaged in “inexcusable” behavior more than a decade ago, when he was 14 years old, and he resigned his job with the anti-LGBT Family Research Council as calls poured into TLC to cancel the long-running “19 Kids and Counting.”

However, the Duggars’ defenders offered prayers and messages of support on social media.

“This shouldnt even be in the news,” said Stephanie Truesdell in a Facebook comment. “Its not current. Its done, over, and hes been forgiven. None of us, as fans/viewers, whatever, have any need to say anything. It was reported, and its been handeled. Its over.”

“Give them a break,” said Amy Blaydes Wilson. “He was a child himself. Everyone makes mistakes, but it is how you deal with it that makes you better or worse. They are human. We all are human.”

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[KamaAina]

1. What's so great about curiosity?

It killed the cat, remember?

[MineralMan]

2. When I was 14, I was curious, too.

I didn't feel up my sister, though, to satisfy that curiosity. In fact, I didn't feel up anyone. I was 14.

Something's badly wrong with a 14 year old boy feels up his sister. That's the bottom line. Badly wrong.

[brer cat]

5. Absolutely right, MineralMan.

A "mistake" is putting salt instead of sugar in your coffee, not feeling up young girls.

[workinclasszero]

8. Right

Actual kid mistake...oh I forgot to do my homework.

Religious right wing teahaddist kid mistake...oh I forcibly molested my sisters!


WTF is not right about this picture, religious right HYPOCRITES!?

[riderinthestorm]

13. The sisters were 12, 11, 10, 8 and the neighbor girl was 5 years old.

thats way, way beyond "curious" and is no doctor game since he did it in the middle of the night while the girls were sleeping.

[MineralMan]

14. Yes, clearly not just curiosity. It's a pattern of behavior

that indicates something ugly. If I were his young wife, I'd be very concerned about this early behavior.

[justamama83]

16. Absolutely true

This was no teenage groping - I do believe that he was curious but was so repressed - I'm sure there was no real life sex education/talks with these kids. Probably the old "sex is for marriage and procreation" speech. I am torn - this is so repugnant and disgusting yet I feel sorry for the kid he was because when the hormones started raging he had no one to turn to for advice.

[trotsky]

21. Agreed. The repression (and total lack of ANY sex ed) has to be a major part of this.

Doesn't excuse the behavior, but it creates conditions for it to be more likely to occur.

[asjr]

27. He could have turned to his parents. After all they

spent a lot of time making babies--19 to be exact. I think they knew what to do.

[arcane1]

30. His mom says she submits to her husband in all things, including sex

So he was basically raised to think of females as objects for his enjoyment.

[get the red out]

17. Badly wrong in the family

Terribly dysfunctional. Those poor girls never got any counseling, nor did the son.

[HockeyMom]

18. Repressed Adolescent Sexuality?

Maybe he was taught that masturbation is a SIN! No sex until marriage stuff? I would think that parents lecturing a teen boy on the sin of masturbation could seriously damage his psyche. Better he pleasure himself than molest young girls, including his little sisters.

BTW, I went to Catholic school. They said this all the time. I thought the nuns and priests were crazy with these lectures.

[Humanist_Activist]

26. Exactly n/t

[Arkana]

3. Wow, redefining 'human garbage'.

[JaneyVee]

4. Jesus Christ.

[workinclasszero]

6. Funny, as a child..

it never entered into my head to molest my sisters. And I'm human too, go figure.

Now ask these same all forgiving people about, oh lets say gay people and....

TEH GAYS MUST BURN WIT FIRE!!!

Damn hypocrites!

[libdem4life]

7. He was past the biblical age of accountability (12) and how it was handled was that it wasn't

handled. That made it Bad. Now the cover-ups and enabling excuses...makes it Very, Very Bad. The sisters are literally being molested emotionally again and again.

Every person in prison for child molestation is human...that we know for sure. The rest of this quickie instant forgiveness "Jesus died so we can molest our sisters and say sorry", not so much. He spoke about some caveats to True Forgiveness.

[arcane1]

9. So, these supporters won't complain if it happens to them, right?

Idiots.

[whathehell]

10. "Girls are curious" as well..

Wouldn't give them a pass to molest, I'm guessing.

[MineralMan]

11. Well, sometime in their mid-teens,

young folks begin to explore what makes them curious, but not with their siblings, for goodness' sake.

One thing is normal youthful exploration. The other is, well, not right.

[whathehell]

24. I agree

The original comment sounded a lot like "boys will be boys". which is so often

used as an excuse for bad behavior.

My point was that girls are every BIT as curious as boys, but not, I expect, as likely

to initiate incestuous encounters.

[Tom Ripley]

12. Quit picking on Babyhead Sisterdiddler!

[Vinca]

15. I don't really follow this family, but it seems overbreeding

might make it impossible to give each kid enough attention so it's inevitable there will be a few "ungodly" in the herd. It is a bit amusing, though, given the holier-than-thou nature of this bunch.

[Johonny]

19. What's funny is that if he revealed that he was openly and happily homosexual these people

would have dropped him like a rock because God's forgiveness is very exclusive.

[mr blur]

20. "hes been forgiven"? Well that's OK then,

as long as Gawd's OK with it.

[frogmarch]

22. Aha! I knew someone would drag out the old

standby excuse "Boys Will Be Boys." I knew it.

I can almost understand a 14-year-old...no, wait...I can't.

An 18-year-old molesting young girls because he's "just curious"? nuh uh. Absolutely not.

To top it off, he and his family were preaching "family values."

[Rex]

23. Wow I guess I should remember we are dealing with cultists that are brainwashed

by Foxnews and CBN. Still, it is hard to believe they are that myopic as to forgive the parents (and the boy) of a boy that raped his sister(s) and who knows how many other children. WHERE WERE they parents to defend their little girls? WHAT kind of 'family values' are those?

Scary, because they 'vote their conscious' which evidently means nothing since they don't seem to have one.

[Solly Mack]

25. The old "boys will be boys" BS rationalization.

Sexual assault isn't a "mistake", it's a horrible crime that can and does lead to devastating consequences for the victim.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. Gee, who would have figured puritanically repressing teens & prohibiting them from dating normally

might not be the healthiest way to raise your kids?

Female family members do not cut their hair short, and males are clean-shaven and short-haired. They practice chaperoned courtship, instead of typical dating, which includes rules against such things as any physical contact. The suitor must ask permission from the young woman's father before approaching her for a courtship and before proposing to her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Kids_and_Counting

Yes, this family of freaks and the enabling parents are a pillar of conservative family values and what Amurica ought to be!

The entire GOP field agrees!

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[LanternWaste]

29. Sounds a lot like the "in HS, I couldn't avert my gave from her skirt" excuse I've heard even here.

Sounds a lot like the "in HS, I couldn't avert my gave from her skirt" excuse I've heard even here on DU-- the distinction being only in degrees, yet all predicated on the creepy excuse of no self control of discipline.