Posted by Elaine Magliaro
Last summer, Michelle Duggar, the matriarch of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” publicly campaigned against an anti-discrimination bill in her home state of Arkansas. She was the voice behind a robocall “opposing a civil rights proposal put forth by Alderman Matthew Petty.” Petty reportedly had “devised the bill to handle complaints from Fayetteville residents who had suffered discrimination pertaining to housing, employment, and other public accommodations.”
The text of Michelle Duggar’s robocall is below the fold.
Hello, this is Michelle Duggar. I’m calling to inform you of some shocking news that would affect the safety of Northwest Arkansas women and children. The Fayetteville City Council is voting on an ordinance this Tuesday night that would allow men – yes, I said men – to use women’s and girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, showers, sleeping areas and other areas that are designated for females only. I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls. I doubt that Fayetteville parents would stand for a law that would endanger their daughters or allow them to be traumatized by a man joining them in their private space. We should never place the preference of an adult over the safety and innocence of a child. Parents, who do you want undressing next to your daughter at the public swimming pool’s private changing area?
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Michelle Duggar Records Transphobic Robocall Opposing Arkansas Anti-Discrimination Bill (Huffington Post)
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Fogelsang got it right: irony and karma. I wonder if Michelle Duggar “gets” it? Probably not. [sigh]
Huckabee should be called out for HIS hypocrisy. When he was Guv, he took a convicted rapist under his wing because the rapist had found JESUS, and claimed that he got a bum rap because the victim of the rape was a close relative of Clinton. Huckabee accepted all his claims, violated state law and went before the parole board to push for his release. They let him out, he left the state to MO, then raped and MURDERED two women in that state. Huckabee’s judgment is seriously lacking in both protesting the outing of this child molester and freeing a rapist to rape and kill two women. I hope that all will bring this up with Huckabee or his supporters. If the Willie Horton ad was fair game for the GOP when Dukakis had nothing to do with the killer being released, it sure as HELL does matter when Huckabee broke state laws to get a rapist and killer back on the streets.
randyjet,
Huckabee is a true hypocrite. He criticized the Obamas for letting their daughters listen to Beyonce’s songs. Yet, he’s good buddies with that degenerate Ted Nugent. The former Arkansas governor also invited Nugent onto his Fox show where he accompanied the rocker on guitar while Nugent sang a sexually explicit song.
With that many children, there are probably going to be more “ironies”. So many stories from survivors of those Patriarical fundamentalist cults. I wonder if one or more of the Duggar children will write a book one day.
Randyjet,
I agree Hucklebee is a conman, sleaze and self serving liar. It rankles me that the media treats this man with any respect. I’ll add one more thing. Look at the man when he speaks. His face may be smiling, but the eyes are ice cold and the demeanor is one of a bully.
Thanks for this Elaine. (seriously thank you 🙂 )
Arkansas was a bitter pill for all trans women. The women that were involved and active down there were some of the first trans women I met in my own Transition. The final outcome was a hard thing and this irony is bitter and well..frustrating if amusing.
More on Huckabee:
Arkansas Police Destroy Josh Duggar’s Record After Mike Huckabee-Appointed Judge Orders It
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/23/arkansas-police-destroy-josh-duggars-record-after-mike-huckabee-appointed-judge-orders-it/
Excerpt:
One day before Mike Huckabee defended child molester Josh Duggar on Facebook, a judge he appointed while Governor of Arkansas ordered police to destroy the record. Isn’t that just convenient?
Duggar, who starred with his parents Jim Bob and Michelle along with the rest of his family on the defunct TLC show “19 Kids and Counting,” admitted that he molested his sisters when he was a teenager. But instead of turning their son into authorities, Jim Bob and Michelle covered up his crimes, resulting in Josh Duggar escaping prosecution because the statute of limitations ran out by 2006.
Police have held onto the record ever since, but Juvenile Judge Stacy Zimmerman ordered the record destroyed immediately, which is uncommon.
According to the Associated Press,
Springdale police spokesman Scott Lewis said Judge Stacey Zimmerman ordered the 2006 offense report destroyed Thursday. Zimmerman didn’t return a request for comment on Friday.
“The judge ordered us yesterday to expunge that record,” Lewis said, adding that similar records are typically kept indefinitely. “As far as the Springdale Police Department is concerned, this report doesn’t exist.”
So Josh Duggar is getting special treatment from an Arkansas judge who is connected to Mike Huckabee who in turn is a close friend of the Duggar family.
Caitlyn,
There are bastions of ignorance all over this country. The only justification for bigotry against all LBGT people is fear, ignorance and the inability for someone to be secure in their own sexuality. It is a bitter irony that these sexual bigots consider themselves “normal”, as if there was a “normal” in human sexuality. Human sexuality has always been a wide spectrum based more on genetics, than preference. That for transgender people technology has been created to allow them to live their lives in harmony with themselves,is a blessing of great proportion and one that should be supported by us all.
Dan Savage Points Out Hypocrisy Of Duggar Family Values
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/24/dan-savage-duggar_n_7429464.html
Excerpt:
LGBT advocate Dan Savage noted the hypocrisy inherent in the Duggar family’s anti-trans agenda in light of Josh Duggar’s apparent admission that he molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.
“Particularly when religious conservatives want to talk about it, they want to point a finger at non-family. They want to point a finger at people that they define as the enemies of families or not from or having families of their own — LGBT people, particularly trans people increasingly with these anti-trans bathroom bills,” Savage said on Friday night’s episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”
“That is what the Duggars have dug in on,” Savage continued, “is attacking trans people and opposing this LGBT civil rights bill in Fayetteville, where they were out there arguing that the threat to little girls in Fayetteville were transwomen when they knew, when they were covering for someone who had demonstrated, at least at that age, was a threat to little girls himself.”
Wingnut Week In Review: Duggar Family Values Edition
MAY 22, 2015
http://ourfuture.org/20150522/wingnut-week-in-review-duggar-family-values-edition
Excerpt:
The hypocrisy gets even worse. The Duggars have in the past claimed that LGBT people were a threat to children. Michelle Duggar recorded robocalls claiming the Fayetteville nondiscrimination ordinance would cause “males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls.”…
Here’s the best of the rest of the worst in wingnuttery this week:
– Mama June, formerly of TLC’s cancelled “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” is ready to sue the network if the Duggar’s show remains on the air following allegations that the family covered up their eldest son’s molestation of young girls. June’s show was cancelled after June resumed dating a man who sexually abused her daughter multiple times, when the girl was 8 years old.
– He loves to blame all manner of problems on “absent fathers,” but divorce documents reveal Fox Host Bill O’Reilly as both an absent father and an abuser. Trial transcripts reveal O’Reilly’s daughter telling the court her father was “never” around, and when he was he would go “ballistic,” and behave in a “scary and demeaning” because of his violent temper. Of course, Fox News completely ignored the abuse allegations against O’Reilly.
– Radio host Bryan Fischer told his listeners, “I believe we are going to have violence as a result,” if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.
– Evangelist Franklin Graham is issuing prayers on Facebook to try and change Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s mind on marriage equality.
– Fox News claimed President Obama was “disarming” the nation’s police officers, after the president issued executive orders banning the federal government from providing some military equipment to police departments.
– Glenn Beck warned that “the cops are being set up,” for a federal takeover.
– Appearing on “The Alex Jones Show,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that the Obama administration is engaging in “Nazi stuff,” by using ethnic politics, and wants to confiscate firearms and put people “in jail for even having them.”
– Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) destroyed Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke at a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the tensions between police officers and African Americans, when Clarke claimed that “black-on-black crime” as the “elephant in the room.”
– Fox guest Ben Stein told host Neil Cavuto that free college would be a waste, because there are a lot of poor people “who are slobs, drunks, drug addicts.”
– Glenn Beck advised his listeners to “prepare for all-out war,” when the fight against ISIS develops into World War III. “War unlike we’ve ever seen in our lifetime because that’s what I believe is coming,” Beck said.
– Beck also warned that if Hillary Clinton becomes president, “That means the people are dead. That means we have voted for destruction.”
Anybody that knows a trans woman or man in should know that we are not a threat to anyone and in fact are the threatened ones.
Hobby Lobby billionaire behind the Christian counseling center that treated Josh Duggar
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/hobby-lobby-billionaire-behind-the-christian-counseling-center-that-treated-josh-duggar/
Excerpt:
For more than a decade, Hobby Lobby billionaires provided substantial financial support to Bill Gothard, a politically influential religious leader who — among other things — founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles and the chain of Christian ‘treatment’ centers to which Josh Duggar’s parents sent him after he was caught molesting young girls.
“No one,” Gawker observed last year, “was more instrumental to [Gothard’s] now-controversial ministry than the family behind Hobby Lobby.”
Hobby Lobby founder David Green and his family are committed donors to evangelical Christian causes. Mother Jones reports that the Greens sold Gothard — for $10 — a 2,250-acre campus in Big Sandy, Texas, complete with landing strip and aircraft hangar. The Greens further gifted Gothard a 529,717-square-foot building Little Rock, Arkansas, and a campus in New Zealand.
In 2003, Jim Bob Duggar took his son to the Basic Life Principles Training Center in Little Rock for counseling on Christian values and sexuality. Gothard resigned from the Institute he helmed in 2014 amid allegations by more than 30 women that he touched them inappropriately.
Some of the excerpts in Elaine’s post about the wingnut week are a bit scary, but one provides some humor:
– Evangelist Franklin Graham is issuing prayers on Facebook to try and change Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s mind on marriage equality.
Lol. Lots of luck with that, Rev.
I lived with a dog named Karma, and she was a bitch.
I hope she comes back around Bob and loiters around some people first. There is so much energy, money, and fervor being wasted when there is so much to do.
GOPer Wants Police Chief Who Released Duggar Offense Report To Be Fired
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bart-hester-fire-police-chief-duggar-report
Excerpt:
A Republican lawmaker on Saturday called for the termination of the police chief who released a 2006 offense report alleging that Josh Duggar, of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” molested five underage girls when he was a teenager.
Arkansas state Sen. Bart Hester (R) told local TV station KFSM that he believed Springdale Police Chief Kathy O’Kelly compromised the identities of the eldest Duggar’s alleged victims by releasing the police report.
“The law to protect minors’ identities is not a suggestion,” Hester said. “So sad to see the person charged with protecting the community being so reckless and irresponsible. I believe it is unavoidable that the Springdale police chief should be terminated. She has re-victimized these young ladies.”
Tabloid magazine In Touch Weekly on Thursday published the offense report, which it obtained through a public records request. The names of the victims, as well as Josh Duggar’s name, were redacted. The report was destroyed the same day it was published in the magazine by order of Judge Stacey Zimmerman.
Those cover-ups . . . they’ll get you.
Especially ex post facto cover-ups.
While Barnum may have been right, a significant segment of the population aren’t idiots and have a memory longer than a goldfish.
BTW . . . Even though I think any subject can be used for humor, that is predicated upon a couple of things. One, it must structurally be a good joke. Two, if the subject involves actual victims who suffer demonstrable damage, they cannot be the butt of the joke. This rule is immutable. Three, the one telling the joke must not be a victimizer in their own right. This is just common sense. There is a huge difference in an Inquisition joke coming from Mel Brooks versus one coming from Torquemada or even a modern Pope. That’s the reason George Carlin’s joke about rape works (to paraphrase: “You think rape can’t be funny? I say ‘screw you’. Imagine Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. Why do you think they called him Porky?”). It is structurally a good joke. Setup – anything can be funny, expectation – rape isn’t funny, punctured expectation – ridiculous exaggeration. It is making fun of the rapist, not the raped. Carlin was notoriously also not a rapist himself (and I say good on him).
That being said, here’s Josh Duggar making an incest joke in 2008.
Draw your own conclusions.
Speaking of karma . . .
More Advertisers Drop ’19 Kids And Counting’ In Wake Of Child Molestation Scandal
This is usually the first sign of sure demise in television. That karma. She is a wheel.
“Imagine Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd.”
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It works better if Elmer is raping Porky. (scene from Deliverance) I’m gonna make you sqwuia wike a pig hahahaha.
Just don’t say that out loud in Elmer Fudd’s voice. It’s really hard to explain to others in the room.