The Duggar saga has taken a number of bizarre turns.
Get this tidbit as it relates to the scandal involving Josh Duggar, of the “19 Kids and Counting” reality show and his admitted molestation of young girls, including some of his sisters, while he was a teenager.
Josh’s father, Jim Bob, ran for the Republican Party nomination to the U.S. Senate in 2002. He lost to eventual GOP nomineeĀ Tim Hutchinson.
Jim Bob Duggar was asked what he thought should be the appropriate punishment for those who commit incest.
He responded: “Rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.”
http://defamer.gawker.com/duggar-dads-political-platform-incest-should-be-punish-1706929035
You know, of course, how society treats “capital criminals.” It executes them. Capital crimes deserve capital punishment. Isn’t that correct?
He said also, “If a woman is raped, the rapist should be executed instead of the innocent unborn baby.”
TLC, the network that broadcast “19 Kids,” has pulled the series off the air. It might return the reality show to the airwaves, but without Josh Duggar. He would be excluded from any future on-air face time.
As for Daddy Duggar’s view of how society should punish those who’ve committed the very crimes to which his own son has admitted, well … I’m betting his view on that has “evolved.”