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Josh Duggar, the eldest child of the 19 kid Duggar family, has resigned his post as executive director of
FRC Action, the political and lobbying arm of the far-right
Family Research Council,
over multiple alleged molestation incidents which took place when he
was a teenager. The Duggars, in the unlikely case you're not familiar
with them, are the subjects of a long running reality TV show,
19 Kids and Counting,
chronicling their lives as an evangelical family raising 19 biological
children from more or less nonstop child-bearing by matriarch Michelle
Duggar.
The family has also served as semi-official mascots of the pro-life
and anti-gay rights movements in the United States. The FRC is classed
as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Josh Duggar is an
outspoken advocate
of discrimination against gays and lesbians. He has also, ironically,
repeatedly attacked members of the LGBT community as threats to the
well-being of young children.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/duggar-spawn-family-research-council-leader-resigns-over-molestation-charges
