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[quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to quote this (because I wholeheartedly agree) and I think it shows that not all conservatives are hateful jerks:
[quote]This is a textbook study in how the rape culture works, how entire communities conspire to abet and protect sexual predators while silencing and retraumatizing victims.

Josh Duggar did not make "mistakes." He sexually preyed on multiple girls while they slept. And then he got away with it, because virtually everyone else around him was invested in making sure that he would.

An entire community, that grew bigger year by year, rallied behind a sexual predator to protect him. And now they stand behind him still, talking about his repeated predation as "mistakes."

Sexual assault is not "a mistake."

But certainly that's the way it must be framed for parents, church leaders, police, members of the community, in-laws, a wife, television executives, and now fans to speak in grave tones about the redemptive forgiveness of god and to convince themselves that it was just a blip in an otherwise exemplary life—while diligently ignoring the profound trauma of Josh Duggar's victims and the secondary trauma caused by a lack of justice lingering under the heavy shadow of his carefully maintained public image as a model of virtue. [/quote]

[quote]I am 14:10 and I would like to add that I am a devout catholic and middle of the road republican. This is not about religion or politics it is about human decency and how we choose the society we want to live in. I do not want to live in a society where sisters who are sexual assaulted by their brother have to continue living with him and worse live submissive to him. I do want to live in a society where all people have an equal opportunity to love and cannot wait for the day that the US wakes up and passes marriage equality for everyone. I also want to live in a society where I can choose not to have an abortion and my neighbor can choose to have one, because we all have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - not just people who look and think like me.

So the Duggars can kiss my grits. [/quote]
[quote]Sorry for the third post but 14:10 again. I am all fired up and after reading all these posts about excusing this vile excuse for a christian patriach (Talking about JimBob) just broke me and I have to get it all out.

Is Josh a victim? Does he deserve forgiveness? Yes and yes. He as all his siblings and now his own children are victims of being raised in a cult, however there comes a time where you become an adult and your actions become your responsibility not the responsibility of your parents. He chose to stand up at a podium with a straight face and say that the LGBT community was a danger to children when he himself is a proven danger to children. He chose to continue to say this even though his father sent him to a child pornographer for counseling, a state trooper who was definitely a danger to children. Sure, I forgive Josh, I take people at face value - he has apologized, I forgive him. Forgiveness is a fundamental trait of Christianity, so is compassion, empathy and loving thy neighbor. Josh has chosen as an adult to show none of these traits in his very public life and platform. That is not on his parents, that is not on Bill Gothard, that is not on society, that is on him.

There, I think I've gotten it all out of my system.  [/quote][/quote]

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