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More Duggar Scandal – Josh Duggar Had Secret Facebook Page
According to RadarOnline, there’s still more in the Josh Duggar sex scandal closet.
Now, it appears that in addition to his Ashley Madison accounts and admitting to being “unfaithful” to his wife, RadarOnline has found a secret Facebook page attributed to Josh Duggar where he follows and is “friends” with lingerie models and strippers.
Josh admitted to signing up for cheaters website Ashley Madison with the email address joesmithsonnwa@gmail.com, and there is a Facebook account registered to that address under the name Joe Smithson.
According to the profile, “Smithson” was posting on the site as far back as 2004 — four years before Josh married Anna.
“Smithson” is friends with 32 women, mostly attractive and young, and from the area of Arkansas where he lived before leaving for a political career in Washington, DC.
He’s also a follower of a dancer at Sensations Gentleman’s Club in Arkansas, a lingerie model, and a curvy blonde blogger.
According to the profile, Smithson was active on the site as recently as January 2014, one year after Duggar began working with the Family Research Council.
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Josh Duggar Admits To Hypocrisy And “Double Life”
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| Josh Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting fame |
In the aftermath of yesterday’s reports that Josh Duggar, of 19 Kids and Counting fame, had two accounts on the “cheaters” dating website Ashley Madison, he has posted an “apology” of sorts.
In the post, Duggar admits that he is a HUGE hypocrite (he actually uses the word “biggest”) for his accusations and attacks of moral outrage over other’s behaviors while he has lived a “double life.”
Posted to the Duggar family website:
I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.
I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.
I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.
The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.
As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.
I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.
Josh Duggar
Duggar and his entire family have spent years attacking and working against the rights of LGBT folks.
Specifically, Josh was executive director of the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council’s lobbying arm for two years. That came to an end this past May, in the wake of a molestation scandal in which he admitted to sexually abusing two of his younger sisters as a teenager.
As I always say, “Ye who protesteth the loudest, do it the mosteth!”
Duggar Family ‘Heartbroken’ Over Cancellation Of “19 Kids And Counting”
According to People.com, the Duggar family is “heartbroken” their TV series on TLC has been canceled.
The source says the evangelical Christian family, who often discussed their religious faith on their TLC show, is “heartbroken that they’ve now lost that platform.”
“The Duggars want to return to TV because they truly believe it was part of God’s plan for them to spread the word about their faith,” the source says.
“I think Jim Bob and Michelle honestly did expect people to just move on from this,” the source adds. “Their thinking is, they put this behind them ages ago, so why wouldn’t the rest of the world?”
I’m certain the money and fame had nothing to do with wanting to be back on TV.
I guess the family thinks it’s unfair that after you’ve positioned yourselves as ‘morally superior’ for ten years, the world won’t let you forget that your son touched your daughters and others in “inappropriate” ways.
Openly Jake Takes On Closeted Right-Wing Ministers’ Hypocrisy
Jake takes on the issue of gay closeted ministers with the story of Reverend Matthew Makela, who was discovered on Grindr looking for sex while publicly telling young gay men they would burn in hell.
It’s an age old story, no?
Duggar Sisters’ Bedroom Doors Were Locked To Prevent Repeat “Incidents” Of “Touching”
Tonight Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard, two of Josh Duggar’s sisters who he has admitted to touching inappropriately while they slept, tell Megyn Kelly of Fox News that after the incidents their parents began a policy of locking bedroom doors out of fear the “touching” would occur again.
Also, the kids were told they could not be left alone with one another.
All in all, though, the sisters defend their brother. According to a transcript of tonight’s interview, Seewald downplays the entire issue, saying, “I’m like, that is so overboard and a lie really. People get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.”
The second part of Megyn Kelly’s interviews with the Duggars airs tonight at 9pm.
Meanwhile, In Touch Weekly has addressed many of the twists, turns and contortions Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar made in their “interview” with Megyn Kelly. Including the fact that the police report that began this whole debacle was NOT illegally released.
It turns out it wasn’t filed until after Josh Duggar was over 18, meaning it did not have to be sealed. The names of the victims were redacted as they were underage, but the file was not sealed. The report was obtained via a legal request through the Freedom of Information Act.
It all just keeps getting more and more sordid.
More at Buzzfeed.
Sportswriter Mike Lupica Picks Apart The “Common-Sense” Duggars
Sportwriter Mike Lupica pens an awesome essay for the NY Daily News regarding the twisting, turning tale of Josh Duggar and the media circus surrounding the newly discovered hypocrisy of the family’s “moral superiority:”
Back in April, Josh Duggar, who used to star in a family television series until the world discovered that he used to improperly touch underage girls whether he was related to them or not, was in Washington, D.C., for the National Organization for Marriage’s “March for Marriage.”
Duggar, being a good Duggar, was there to stand up for what Christian conservatives like himself and his mom and his dad think of as “traditional” marriage, and to tell everybody that good Christians like himself have been persecuted because of their faith during the debate about gay marriage in this country.
“America,” Josh Duggar said at the time, God bless him, “was founded on respect, tolerance, and really not discriminating against people based on their religious convictions.”
You would think, just in the interest of full disclosure, and knowing what he knew about himself before the rest of us found out, that he could have added that respect in America also ought to include respect for the rights of children, even when he was sneaking into their bedrooms at night. But as so often happens with people like Josh Duggar, they’ve got their gospel and the rest of us have to make do with ours.
[snip]
The Duggars want this all to be about a sealed juvenile record becoming public, as part of their professional victimization. Right. Now they want privacy.
No, the story here is what their son did, sometimes to sleeping girls, and the fact that they are still — and shamelessly — trying to defend him and themselves. You know what these parents really sounded like with Megyn Kelly as they tried to save their creepy empire?
They sounded like accessories after the fact.
I love that Lupica calls out the “sleight of hand” underway by the Duggars trying to make the “privacy” issue THE issue. Suddenly a family that sought TV fame for ten years wants privacy.
Got it.
Dan Savage Calls The Duggars Out For “Demonizing” Gays While Covering Up For Their Son
Appearing on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes last night, Dan Savage called out the Duggars of 19 Kids & Counting fame for demonizing LGBTs while covering up for their son, Josh Duggar, who has admitted that he molested young girls when he was 14 years old.
Savage reminded viewers that Michelle Duggar publicly campaigned against a recent LGBT nondiscrimination law in Arkansas saying that this law “presented a danger to little girls, particularly, because it would allow trans women to use restrooms, and it was in the best interest of children to repeal this LGBT civil rights law.”
“Just the hypocrisy of Michelle Duggar out there demagoguing and demonizing LGBT people while at the same time having covered up and protected her son who had actually molested at least five little girls that we know of is just staggering. It’s galling.”
Watch the segment below.
Missouri: Speaker Of The House John Diehl Resigns Due To “Sexting” Scandal With College Freshman
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| Former Speaker of the Missouri state House – John Diehl |
Yesterday I posted about anti-gay, conservative and MARRIED Missouri Speaker of the House, John Diehl, who had been caught in a sexting scandal with a college freshman who was serving an internship at the Missouri state legislature.
Today, Diehl has announced he is resigning as Speaker and from his legislative seat as well.
“For the good of my party, the caucus, and this state, I’m not going to further jeopardize what we have accomplished this year and what can be accomplished in the future,” the Republican from Town and Country said in a statement released Thursday afternoon. “Therefore, I will be resigning the position of Speaker of the House and the office of State Representative in a way that allows for an orderly transition.”
After spending eight hours in his office conferring with colleagues Wednesday, Diehl issued a statement apologizing saying he took “full responsibility” for the exchanges. He did not offer any detail. Diehl emerged from his office around 11 p.m. Wednesday but said little more to reporters.
In this statement Thursday, he still offered little detail, but again apologized and he acknowledged “making a serious error in judgment by sending the text messages.
“It was wrong and I am truly sorry,” Diehl said in the statement. “Too often we hear leaders say they’re sorry but are unwilling to accept the consequences. I understand that, as a leader, I am responsible for my actions and I am willing to face the consequences.”
Diehl was a vocal opponent to same-sex marriage in Missouri. So much so that he filed an amicus brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals opposing marriage equality there.
Diehl also co-sponsored a 2012 bill to ban Gay-Straight Alliances in public schools, which read: “Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no instruction, material, or extracurricular activity sponsored by a public school that discusses sexual orientation other than in scientific instruction concerning human reproduction shall be provided in any public school.”
I’m sure the 49 year old, who is married with three children, bases his opposition to same-sex marriage on his “deeply held religious beliefs” that don’t seem to rule out sexting with a teen aged student who’s less than half his age.