Guess Who’s Mixed Up In Duggar Family Sex Crimes Now? Hobby Lobby, Of Course!
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Guess Who’s Mixed Up In Duggar Family Sex Crimes Now? Hobby Lobby, Of Course!
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Arts and crafts and cover-ups!
According to the official police report, after Josh Duggar’s parents found out he was molesting his sisters, and they spent a year doing NOTHING about it, Jim Bob Duggar sent his son for counseling with a “family friend” who was renovating a building in Little Rock, Arkansas. It turns out the program Josh went to was the Basic Life Principles Training Center, led by none other than Duggar family BFF Bill Gothard, the creepy man who, as your Wonkette reported Sunday, “coincidentally has been accused of sexual abuse and harassment by more than 30 teenage girls.” Gothard’s Advanced Training Institute (ATI), the homeschooling cult the Duggars love so much, teaches, among other things, that little girls who get sexually abused probably share some of the blame, for being gross and naked sometimes.
But here’s a fun fact! Arkansas courts ALSO sent juvenile offenders to Gothard’s programs, housed in an old VA hospital in Little Rock, donated by some other good friends, the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby. Yes, THAT Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts store that has very sincere religious beliefs about sex and how ladies shouldn’t do it, except for when they are married, to make babies for Jesus. Sound familiar? But Hobby Lobby also believes, apparently, that if boys do sex to girls, it is because the girls tempted them to do it, so the boys should have a special place to go to learn how to not be tempted to diddle their sisters. So Hobby Lobby gave Gothard this nice building where he could teach that kind of thing:
Shortly after the institute acquired the building, Gothard began renovating the space, saying it would be used for the Little Rock Training Center, which would house “court-referred youthful offenders in the organization’s Bible-based rehabilitation program,” according to an April 2000 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Gothard resigned as president of the institute on March 6, 2014, after being accused of sexual harassment of female employees. Huh! Wonder how somebody as gross and creepy as Bill Gothard got all that official endorsement from the state, and how theoretically non-religious courts might think it’s okay to send juvenile offenders to a guy who thinks when little boys change little girl babies’ diapers, that the girls share responsibility for any subsequent abuse that happens, because they have VAGINAS and they’re RIGHT THERE. If you are thinking “Hmmm, I wonder if Mike Huckabee has anything to do with this,” you are wearing your thinking pants correctly! It turns out that, as Arkansas governor, Huckabee thought it would be great to use Gothard’s teachings and programs for … just about everything!
Most Americans never heard of Chicago-based teacher Bill Gothard until newspapers wrote about Colorado church shooter Matthew Murray’s 2006 Internet rant about growing up under strict homeschool teaching developed as part of Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles.
That piqued attention to a photo of Huckabee and Gothard together at a Houston fund-raiser posted to a family blog of a Gothard disciple.
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These hypocrites (I refuse to call them people) make me sick.
Stronger words? I cannot even imagine.......oh, wait! 
another reason to despise Hobby Lobby
It's damaged me in so many ways, I can't even begin to put it in one post.
See, the thing is, I didn't even REALIZE that I had been raised in a cult, until all this came out in the news.
It may sound really incredible, but the thing about brainwashing is, that you don't REALIZE you are being brainwashed.
I knew my upbringing was messed up, but I just put it all down to Conservative Christianity, which is NOT considered a cult by our society. I just couldn't understand why I found it so hard to put it behind me and move on.
I no longer believed in how I was raised, no longer practiced that religion, but still couldn't escape very deep-seated feelings of insecurity, guilt, and certain programming that I didn't recognize as programming.
It all makes such horrible sense, now.
If anyone out there in DU-land is suffering as I am, two sources that have helped me are:
http://www.recoveringgrace.org/
and the book:
"A Matter of Basic Principles"
Both are Christian in nature, but show the cult of Gothardism for what it is, and how it violates even "Conservative" Christian principles, let alone what we consider to be "Liberal" Christianity.
I'm on the road to recovery, but I won't deny that it's going to be a life-long process.
Thanks again for your support. It means more than I can say.
