We’re still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it comes another involving Christian leaders totally misreading a child-abuse situation and handling it in the poorest, most insensitive way possible. Another day, another fundagelical scandal involving sex abuse. Say hi to Jordan Root!
Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, “an…. agenda???” That voice caught my attention in a major way. I live under a rock. I don’t pay much attention to reality TV. I hadn’t noticed her voice until this interview. But once I noticed it, a lot of stuff fell into place for me.
I always despised the Duggar parents, but now I actively hate them thanks to this interview they did with Megyn Kelly.
Even some folks in the right-wing Christian world are waking up to the understanding that Josh Duggar is not being straightforward, though even they don’t seem to realize that the problem isn’t just Josh but his entire wicked, dishonest religion and his revoltingly hypocritical parents. Enter the PR spin-doctoring machine.
Robby Dawkins is telling some porkie pies about helping to resurrect someone who died! Is it true? (Seriously? Of course it’s not.) Let’s look at what happened, and what it shows about Christianity that he’s gotten any traction at all with his fish story.
Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of Josh Duggar and his parents does not look anything like this list.
Here’s a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh Duggar molestation scandal and why they fail completely.
They ache for the legitimacy of having a good reason to believe–all while having no way whatsoever to achieve it or to establish that they have one.
The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that previously hadn’t even breathed a word about the scandal are now tiptoeing into the waters with super-carefully-worded pieces about what he did, now that it’s painfully obvious that Christians as a group are talking about it. Mainly, unfortunately, they’re largely defending it.
Only one site featured the story of Josh Duggar’s pedophilia. I was surprised at which one! Maybe all the other sites’ writers are in church right now or busy praying so they didn’t get the news? For, uh, two days? Or were they all busy circling their wagons?