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<p>The American TLC Cable Company yesterday cancelled one its top TV shows 19 Kids and Counting in the wake of allegations that Josh Duggar one of its cast members sexually abused five underage girls, including his sisters, over a decade ago.</p>
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<p>Josh, 27, the eldest son of the Duggar clan featured on the show, resigned from his position as executive director of the anti-gay, far right group Family Research Council's (FRC) lobbying arm yesterday, saying in a statement: "Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends."</p><p></p><p>In a typical example of its anti-gay views, <a href="http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=is02e3">the FRC has a page on its website which states that gay people should not be allowed to work with children</a>, because “disproportionate numbers of gay men seek adolescent males or boys as sexual partners”.</p><p></p><p>Anger has been mounting <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=duggar&src=typd">on social media</a> since it has also been revealed that Duggar’s father had known for a whole year about his son’s alleged molestations before he reported it to the authorities, and that Josh Duggar was never prosecuted because it was then outside of the statute of limitations.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josh-duggar-breaks-his-silence-regarding-child-molestation-allegations-58978">‘In Touch Magazine’ has reported on nine different occasions</a> when the fiercely homophobic Duggar lectured people on family values before his "inexcusable" actions. One such time was when he argued that an LGBT nondiscrimination measure in Arkansas jeopardised the safety of children:</p><p></p><p>‘Enacting additional laws that are trying to protect one group of people over another is not really the solution and in fact it has the inverse effect on others… We have to make sure we’re standing up to protect the rights of privacy and protecting the well-being of women and children in our cities.’</p><p></p><p>His actions however were not met with total disapproval as conservative US Republican Presidential Candidate US Mike Huckabee quickly issued a statement saying that Duggar should be forgiven for what he dismisses as a ‘mistake by a teenager’. </p><p></p><p>Huckabee was recently also in the news for his other views of parenting when in a book he criticised President Obama and the First Lady for their approach to parenting which evidently gave him such great offence. </p><p></p><p>Their crime in Huckabee’s eyes was they let their daughters listen to artists like Beyoncé, whose music he called ‘mental poison.’</p><p></p><p></p><p>
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The American TLC Cable Company yesterday cancelled one its top TV shows 19 Kids and Counting in the wake of allegations that Josh Duggar one of its cast members sexually abused five underage girls, including his sisters, over a decade ago.
Josh, 27, the eldest son of the Duggar clan featured on the show, resigned from his position as executive director of the anti-gay, far right group Family Research Council's (FRC) lobbying arm yesterday, saying in a statement: "Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends."
Anger has been mounting on social media since it has also been revealed that Duggar’s father had known for a whole year about his son’s alleged molestations before he reported it to the authorities, and that Josh Duggar was never prosecuted because it was then outside of the statute of limitations.
‘In Touch Magazine’ has reported on nine different occasions when the fiercely homophobic Duggar lectured people on family values before his "inexcusable" actions. One such time was when he argued that an LGBT nondiscrimination measure in Arkansas jeopardised the safety of children:
‘Enacting additional laws that are trying to protect one group of people over another is not really the solution and in fact it has the inverse effect on others… We have to make sure we’re standing up to protect the rights of privacy and protecting the well-being of women and children in our cities.’
His actions however were not met with total disapproval as conservative US Republican Presidential Candidate US Mike Huckabee quickly issued a statement saying that Duggar should be forgiven for what he dismisses as a ‘mistake by a teenager’.
Huckabee was recently also in the news for his other views of parenting when in a book he criticised President Obama and the First Lady for their approach to parenting which evidently gave him such great offence.
Their crime in Huckabee’s eyes was they let their daughters listen to artists like Beyoncé, whose music he called ‘mental poison.’
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