This Josh Dugger thing is worse than the media reports
Child torture porn — in Evangelical America?
With his highly fertile Evangelical family, Josh Dugger was a reality T.V. show star. Now he’s charged with having a child porn collection whose horror is being underplayed.
I’m studying the ugliest story in America. It’s a theological story — every detail formed from religious ideas.
Is it one for Christian history books?
From 2008 to 2015, Josh Duggar was on a hit TLC reality T.V. show, 19 Kids and Counting, featuring the vast Duggar family — which claimed a message of extreme fertility came from God.
The family seemed to be Evangelicalism itself—from Republican politics to ‘purity’ guidelines, men in authority, women in ‘submission’. And he was their eldest son, the prince.
The show was cancelled with news that Josh, as a teenager, had molested many underage girls, including four of his sisters, while they slept. Then employed as a lobbyist for the Family Research Council, Josh was fired.
A whole story came out about how the abuse had been suppressed for years. In 2003, Josh’s parents…
