Christian workbook gives instruction for how to explain to homeschool students why God would allow a child to be molested.

Courtesy of the Friendly Atheist:  

The folks at Homeschoolers Anonymous recently got their hands on some old workbook pages used at the Institute of Basic Life Principles. That would be the Christian ministry founded by Bill Gothard, a man who resigned as President a couple of years ago after 34 women accused him of sexual harassment. 

In these workbook pages, which are approximately 20 years old but still aligned with the ministry’s current teachings, students are presented with a question: “Why did God let a four year old boy be molested by a fifteen year old neighbor?” 

Besides the odd phrasing that suggests the four-year-old did something to get molested instead of focusing on the teenager who committed the crime, it’s also a really weird way to talk about why God allows bad things to happen…

Well just threw up in my mouth a little. 

As somebody who has dealt with kids who have been sexually abuses and molested I am horrified that ANYBODY would use this to "educate" an impressionable child.

In fact it reads like a manual for how to prepare children to be victimized.

Former Cobb Country Republican chairman indicted on charges of child molestation, cruelty to children, and sexual battery.

Courtesy of AJC:

A Cobb County grand jury has indicted the county’s former Republican Party chairman on 13 counts, including child molestation, cruelty to children and sexual battery. 

Joseph Russell Dendy, 71, was arrested in May at his West Cobb home and charged with aggravated child molestation and child molestation after allegedly molesting two boys, ages 4 and 12, during separate incidents at his home. Dendy has also been charged with similar crimes in South Carolina, according to Cobb County police and the District Attorney’s Office. 

On Thursday, Dendy was indicted on four counts of child molestation, four counts of first-degree cruelty to children, three counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, and one count each of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation, the indictment states. He was being held without bond Monday at the Cobb jail.

Of course this guy taught Sunday school and was considered an upstanding Christian in his community.

That it always the camouflage they use to hide their true nature.

In our "Where are they now" segment let's see what's up with Josh Duggar.

Courtesy of People:  

Nearly a year to the day after news broke that Duggar had inappropriately touched five underage girls when he was a teen, the former 19 Kids and Counting star appears to be rejoining the family business of restoring and selling used cars.

A source tells PEOPLE Duggar "looks happy" and "interacts very well with people," and spends a lot of time at his parents' home, as well as at the family garage. 

According to People magazine the folks around Tontitown where the Duggars live are not particularity scandalized by Josh's presence.

Really?

Gee nice to see that a evangelical moralist can be accused of molesting his sisters, get caught cheating on his wife with a porn star, and discovered searching for more women to cheat with on an online dating site, and then have the whole thing resolved after only a seventh month stay at an uncredentialed faith based "rehab facility."

Ain't hypocrisy grand?

Mike Huckabee on the Duggars: "Well, out of 19 kids, y’know, as far as we know, 18 turned out pretty darn well"

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Appearing on CNBC with John Harwood, Huckabee was asked if he had any regrets about previously holding the Duggar family up as “a model of everything that was good and decent about family,” in light of Josh Duggar’s fall from grace. 

Duggar has admitted that he molested several of his sisters when he was a teen and conducted multiple adulterous affairs as an adult. 

‘Well, out of 19 kids, y’know, as far as we know, 18 turned out pretty darn well,” a smiling Huckabee said. 

“That’s a pretty good percentage,” he continued, “And I don’t think you disparage..” as Harwood cut him off. 

“I can just imagine quite a few people who feel disparaged about things you’ve say about gay rights, gay marriage, and would think ‘Heh, hypocrite,'” Harwood pressed. 

“Look, I’m not to defend anything of Josh,” Huckabee replied. “Nothing to defend. But I don’t think you can disparage the entire family because one of the members did some pretty bad things.”

Yeah you know that might make sense if Josh's parents had actually got him the help he needed when they first found out, and had not covered for his abuses which allowed him to continue preying on his sisters and family friends. 

Oh and if the family was not made up of anti-gay, fundamentalist assholes, who survive by bilking idiots on the internet and broadcasting their lives on reality TV.

Besides does anybody REALLY believe that the rest of the family "turned out pretty darn well?"

Uh oh! Hide your children and your porn stars because it looks like Josh Duggar has escaped from rehab.

Courtesy of No Longer Quivering: 

While People Magazine and other tabloids are speculating mightily about the type of treatment Josh Duggar may be receiving at Reformers Unanimous in Illinois some rather curious news comes out of that area. No one in Rockford, Illinois has actually spotted Duggar among the other recovering addicts at RU. He hasn’t been seen coming or going from the mandatory twice a Sunday services at North Love Baptist Church. Which is odd considering it would be a mandatory part of his recovery process at RU. There has been absolutely no sightings of Josh anywhere in Rockford or RU.

Here is more from The Hollywood Gossip:  

The Duggars’ private plane, piloted by John David Duggar, pulled into Rockford, Ill., one night, only to turn around 10 minutes later. 

It was believed that this was a clandestine perv dropoff and that Josh entered Reformers Unanimous, a Christian treatment facility. 

His parents have publicly supported the facility in the past, so the theory made sense ... except he reportedly hasn't been seen there. 

Radar insiders claim Josh Duggar hasn't shown up to the rehab center’s mandatory meetings and church services in the last week.

And then it all gets even more suspicious:  

In another surprising twist, the family’s plane took another mystery trip August 27 across the Duggars’ home state of Arkansas. 

The plane arrived in Paragould, a quiet, eastern town, around 9 a.m., and took off for home in Springdale, Ark., around 6 p.m. 

The Christian family does not have property in the area, and no known friends or extended family members are from the town. 

Nor are there are any known rehab centers in the vicinity.

So wait, does THIS mean that after coming clean about being a ginormous hypocrite, and after being accused of roughly banging a porn star, that Josh Duggar might be walking free out among all of us normal, non-pedophile sex addicts?

Because that is not okay.

Where could he go?

Your first thought would be back with his family, but since his own sister is now throwing him to the wolves, and his wife's family wants him to disappear, maybe not.

But seriously who else would be comfortable enough hanging around with pedophiles and sexual perverts to invite one of them to hide out in their home?

Nah! Ya think?

Two of Josh Duggar's sisters, and his mother, appear on TLC program about child sex abuse. Oh this ought to be good.

Courtesy of People:  

Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and Jill (Duggar) Dillard appeared on TLC's documentary Breaking the Silence Sunday, seeking education to address the aftermath of the abuse they faced at the hands of brother Josh Duggar more than a decade ago.

"It's amazing to understand that there are so many people that deal with this exact same thing in their own families," said Jill, 24. 

"So just being educated is very good." Jessa, 22, noted, "I feel like this should be a discussion people are having, even regularly. I think that it shouldn't be a taboo subject, that we should be bringing awareness to child sexual abuse and talking about this." 

Okay I'm confused.

Didn't the Duggar family do just about everything they could think of, including the threat of a lawsuit, to keep people from talking about Josh Duggar's molestation of at least five young girls, including his own sisters?

And doesn't the family still claim that none of the victims even knew they were being abused?

Michele Duggar also appeared on the program and here is what she said:

"I was so glad that my girls and I were able to do this together and that we could just be a support and encouragement to each other to be able to gain more information about this important topic," said Michelle, 48. 

Yes well that's all well and good but it does not really speak to the fact that the family's refusal to get Josh Duggar the treatment he really needed early on, and their ignorance about his predatory impulses, allowed him to victimize his own siblings as well as other young women who made the mistake of sleeping over at the Duggar household.

Not only that but the fact that Josh was also recently outed as a paying customer for the online cheating website Ashley Madison, and that he paid for sex with a porn star, should also suggest that Josh's problems were not due to childlike curiosity, but rather to a pathological need for illicit sexual encounters that may very well have resulted from his upbringing and the example set by his parents.

If true than the problems in the Duggar family are undoubtedly more problematic than we have been led to believe, and they should be the last people trotted out as "victims" in any sense of the word.

One of Josh Duggar's non-family molestation victims is preparing to file a lawsuit against him. Hmm, I guess somebody didn't pray hard enough.

Courtesy of In Touch:  

A non-Duggar family molestation victim is preparing to file a civil suit against Josh Duggar, sources tell In Touch magazine exclusively in the new issue on newsstands today. 

The shocking development means that Josh and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle could be forced to give depositions and testify about Josh’s molestation scandal. The Duggars likely will have to answer every question as they will not be able to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination because the criminal statute of limitations has expired.

You know methinks the Palin family and the Duggars are in some kind of Christian  hypocrisy competition and the Duggars just pulled ahead.

The article goes on to mention that Duggar family is STILL under investigation by the Department of Human Services which means that we may learn a whole lot more about sexual abuse and molestation within this supposedly wholesome Christian family.

Do they even make enough popcorn for this kind of thing?

Jill Duggar and her hubby want money so that they can flee the country.

Courtesy of Radar Online:  

Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard say that God is telling them that it is time to get out of America! 

In a statement on their family blog, Dillard said, “God has put a desire in our hearts to serve Him internationally for longer than the typical short-term mission trip… It’s something we’ve prayed about together in an effort to seek God’s plan for our lives in His service.” 

This decision comes shortly after the revelation that Jill’s brother Josh had allegedly molested her and her sister when they were children.

Of course the husband makes it sound like he has no choice because God "put a desire in our hearts to serve him internationally."  

The term "put a desire in our hearts" sounds really icky and sort of like bullshit to me.

But what do I know I'm a heathen?

I mean to my cynical mind this just seems like a really convenient way to be out of the line of fire when the next devastating revelations about your family hit the internet. But once again...you know...heathen.

Actually I might be willing to donate a dollar or two to this cause, but only if I could be assured that they would never return, and after establishing a base camp in some country where diddling your sister was perfectly okay, would then call for the rest of the Duggar family to join them.

Apparently the reality show "19 Kids and Counting" is losing advertisers faster than Michele Duggar births baby Duggars.

Courtesy of CNN Money:

TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" has lost more than a dozen sponsors since one of the show's stars, Josh Duggar, admitted last week that he had molested several girls when he was a teenager. 

Companies including Ace Hardware, ConAgra foods, Party City, BEHR Paint, Pure Leaf Ice Tea, Ricola, Firehouse Subs, Pizza Hut, Sherwin-Williams paint, Crayola, Allstate Insurance, and King's Hawaiian have pulled their sponsorship from the reality TV show, which has run on the network since 2008. 

Those companies join Walgreens, General Mills, Payless ShoeSource, and Choice Hotels who have previously said they were yanking their ads from the show. 

Each of these companies took to social media to explain to fans and consumers that they were ending sponsorship of the show. 

"We share your concern for the safety of children and have no plans to air Crayola commercials during future episodes," Crayola tweeted Wednesday.

You know at this points I cannot even imagine which companies would want to be associated with this family. 

Or for that matter who would still want to watch this hypocrisy riddled reality show.

Especially since it appears that the family is still being investigated by DHS.

It looks like its time for these people to get real jobs like the rest of us, and stop making a living off of the Duggar mother's over producing birth canal.