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Duggar Guru And Hobby Lobby BFF Bill Gothard Maybe A Rapist, No Big
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He's super pals with Mike Huckabee too!
Once upon a time, Josh Duggar was a little boy who had just fingerbanged a bunch of his kinfolk, and because he was very, very bad, his parents sent him off to therapy with a family friend in Little Rock. That program was the Basic Life Principles Training Center, housed in the old VA hospital, and run by homeschooling guru Bill Gothard of the Institute Of Basic Life Principles. Now how did Gothard get to use that old VA hospital for his therapy programs? The Green family, who owns Hobby Lobby, gave it to him, of course! Wasnt that nice of them? Oh, also hes friends with Mike Huckabee, so all the grossest people in America are part of this story.
Anyway, Gothard has been accused of doing and covering up a whole lotta sexual abuse in a new lawsuit:
Ten women on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Bill Gothard, who for decades was a major force in the conservative Christian homeschooling movement, charging him and leaders in his ministry with sexual abuse, harassment and cover-up.
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Golly gosh gee whiz Batman, how shocking that must have been to hear! Because, as we explained many moons ago, Gothard was accused of sexually harassing more than 30 girls in 2014, but it was OK because his own organization said he didnt do anything bad, so no harm, no foul, right? No diddle-fingers here, no siree!
And it must have been REALLY shocking for Gothard to get this news since, as Gawker splains, five of the ten current plaintiffs originally filed suit in October. Now the complaint has been amended, more women have joined the suit and oh look, this is gross:
One of the Jane Doe plaintiffs in the lawsuit alleges that she was raped by her father and other relatives and says she was sold by her father through human trafficking when she was a minor. She said she reported the abuse and trafficking to IBLP staff, which failed to report to authorities. [
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When the Jane Doe plaintiff was at a ministrys training center, she and Gothard both called her father and Gothard asked him if abuse allegations were true, the lawsuit states. After her father denied the allegations, she said Gothard threatened her. Gothard taught that children were to obey their parents even if they were being sexually abused, the lawsuit states.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/597660/duggar-guru-and-hobby-lobby-bff-bill-gothard-maybe-a-rapist-no-big#3R9H7QJEOsjAIgME.99
malaise
(269,157 posts)Why do you think they love homeschooling? There are no teachers to report incest and rape. Funny how they all hide behind their gawds who 'forgive' anything these nasty scumbags do.
niyad
(113,550 posts)aware.
malaise
(269,157 posts)society. Damn these are depraved people
Coventina
(27,172 posts)All we have are "privileges" that those in authority deem to give us.
Authority is everything. You must obey your authority no matter what because God put them in authority over you and to rebel against them is to rebel against God.
I am so, so glad this is all finally coming to the light.
I was not sexually abused under Gothardism, and for that I am thankful. I was, however, sexually harassed by a teacher while in high school and not believed by my own father, because the teacher is the authority. It should be noted that the teacher was also a follower of Gothard.
I have been severely damaged by my upbringing, but I never forget that many women (and men) had it much, much worse.
Thank you, Niyad, for continuing to be on top of this story.
niyad
(113,550 posts)to wonkette for keeping us informed.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)So many have suffered, I guess I have a case of "survivor's guilt" in a way.
I guess my luck was that my father was/is not a sexual predator, but his belief in Gothardism blinded him to the reality that others in the cult were and were taking advantage of their "authority".
niyad
(113,550 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)As I'm sure you can imagine.
niyad
(113,550 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)Even though (I have come to find out) that he was sent a letter in 1980 about the sexual scandals in the IBLP way back THEN!!!
niyad
(113,550 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Freedom of Religion does not, or at least should not, protect, abusive cultism. Scientology is banned in many countries, for example, for just this reason.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)niyad
(113,550 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)seeing something that isn't there? Is it just their hate and rage?
niyad
(113,550 posts)rage and lack of one iota of human empathy, compassion, caring.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)frightening cult smack in the middle of DC, The Family.