Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account

[b.durruti]

Source: Gawker

In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C. which seeks “to champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society.” During that time, he also maintained a paid account on Ashley Madison, a web site created for the express purpose of cheating on your spouse.

In May 2015, Duggar was forced to resign after In Touch Weekly reported that he had molested five young girls (four of whom were his own sisters) beginning in 2002. When the accusations became public, the family went into crisis mode, insisting that Josh had reformed and that the media covering the claims was intent on “exploiting women.”

Josh himself took to his family’s Facebook page to absolve himself of his past indiscretions and assure the world he was back on a righteous path:

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. I confessed this to my parents who took several steps to help me address the situation. We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life. I sought forgiveness from those I had wronged and asked Christ to forgive me and come into my life. I would do anything to go back to those teen years and take different actions. In my life today, I am so very thankful for God’s grace, mercy and redemption.

Read more: http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091

[George II]

1. .

Donald Trump? Jeb Bush? Mike Huckabee?

[7962]

20. If Trump has one, he's an idiot for sure.

To each his own, I guess, but come on....

[FSogol]

37. Sorry, I can't appreciate Melania Trump. She has awful taste in men.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. For some

money fixes a lot of things.

on edit: I now have Kanye's Gold Digger in my head.

[7962]

61. His best and most accurate song ever. Even though I had to read the lyrics,

to get all of them! I'm surprised he got away with all that

[William Seger]

51. I remember Seth MacFarlane roasting Trump

"This guy has an ego. When he's banging a supermodel, he closes his eyes and imagines he's jerking off."

[LiberalElite]

58. Was that at the White House Correspondents Dinner?

I watched the video a couple days ago and Trump sat stony-faced throughout, while everyone around him laughed.

[William Seger]

82. No, it was Comedy Central (n/t)

[arcane1]

62. .

[BeanMusical]

75. Lol!

[Hepburn]

87. Latte spew!

OMG ... does that ever completely sum of The Donald!!!!

[smirkymonkey]

92. Okay, that is pretty funny. And probably true.

[shenmue]

2. Hmmmmm

[Laurian]

3. Oh, my!

[JoePhilly]

4. Bwahahahaha!! nt

[madamvlb]

5. This just makes me smile!!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. It gets better and better.

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. With the release of AM data - we can expect

so may more of these stories - we won't be able to keep up..a strong suggestion, fess up now....

[DonViejo]

8. The family is whining like crazy....

They are finished.

Duggars ‘still stunned’ fans didn’t forgive and forget their family molestation scandal: report

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027091735

I'm betting there's still more to come

[truebluegreen]

9. There was an article just today (? didn't actually read it)

about the family being desperate for a new series...I guess they can kiss that thought good-bye.

Heh.

[Archae]

24. The article was based on gossip.

There is no evidence the Duggars are trying for another show.

http://links.patheos.mkt5005.com/ctt?kn=62&ms=NDkzNTcyOTYS1&r=MTE4MTY1MzAzMTE5S0&b=0&j=NzQzMDE1MzM3S0&mt=2&rj=NzQzMDE1MzM3S0&rt=0

[truebluegreen]

34. So their upcoming special on surviving abuse or whatever it is

indicates to you that they aren't interested in the money or the spotlight any more?

And I stand by my point--which is of course an opinion since I don't actually have a crystal ball--that they can kiss more shows goodbye.

[Archae]

38. Is there an upcoming special?

I'll wait and see.

[truebluegreen]

44. Apparently you won't have to wait long.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/13/tlc-air-duggar-inspired-sex-abuse-special-aug-30

http://www.etonline.com/news/169987_tlc_reveals_date_for_duggar_inspired_child_sex_abuse_documentary/

And yes, the headlines read "Duggar inspired" but in fact some of the girls are participating.

ETA As you would know if you read your own link:

"Here’s what we do know: On August 30, TLC will air a special called Breaking the Silence focusing on the horrors of child sex abuse. It will feature two of the Duggar sisters who were among Josh’s victims."

[niyad]

71. here is one article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11387855

[Frustratedlady]

10. Paid up to May?

Boy, this is no surprise at all. What is there about these people who have to declare they are so pious and pure that they end up being exposed for activities they supposedly preach against?

Signed up at Grandma's house, eh?

Next headline will surely be, "Josh Duggar's Wife Files For Divorce."

[alarimer]

47. Sadly, I doubt she'll be allowed to divorce him.

I'd feel sorry for her, but she's probably drunk the koolaid too.

[StevieM]

73. Yep. She may even be told that it is somehow her fault that he cheated. (eom)

[Ilsa]

80. Someone at Fox will explain that

She didn't make him enough sandwiches!

[DesertFlower]

11. why am i not surprised. nt

[JackInGreen]

12. Oh that's too too rich

I'm dyin

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. He's a Christian, not perrrrrfect....

[Babel_17]

14. And so it begins

[riversedge]

22. those exact words came to mind as I read the post.

[Babel_17]

28. lol, thank you for that validation!

[riversedge]

33. I am actually

going to make myself a promise to avoid ignore these posts. this information was gotten through hacking of someones email-private. it is wrong. I will admit in advance that my curiosity may get the better of me--esp. if is this type of self-righteous folks.


best.

[Babel_17]

39. Good point about it being stolen data

It might be a pure rationalization to consider it ok to gawk at this violation of a private transaction. Does his hypocrisy trump all? No laws were broken afaik.

[Starry Messenger]

65. Yes! I thought the same thing opening the OP!

[Babel_17]

68. This is great! :)

[n2doc]

15. I'm sure Jeebus forgives him

Jeebus forgives everything RW nut cases do. It's in the bible! His wife, probably not so much.

[Cracklin Charlie]

70. Jeebus died for their sins.

So they can do whatever they want, because he already picked up the check for those sins.

It's worked for them so far. But the times, they may be a-changin'.

[azurnoir]

16. Lol why am I so not surprised

[ellie]

17. Hahahahahahahahaha

<gasp>

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[iandhr]

18. I am shocked shocked to find gambling going on here.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. Wait, I know that one!

Wizard of Oz?
I am curious, Yellow?
Star Trek the return of Spock?

No, the White House!

[brush]

19. I suspect Jim Bob and Michelle will turn on their demon seed son any moment now

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If not for him they'd still be on TV and raking in millions, and this Ashley Madison revelation should dash any hope they had for getting back on TV with another show.

I can almost here them cursing that fu_k-up of a son of their's now.

[pennylane100]

66. Well Josh probably knows enough family dirt

on the rest of them to keep them quiet.

[brush]

67. Yep, you're probably right.

Wonder if Jim Bob's name is on the Ashley Madison list?

Where he'd find the time and energy for something outside though is hard to imagine.

[hunter]

85. That's how politics works in those circles...

... both Fundamentalist Christian and Republican.

They've all got a certain amount of dirt on somebody else, and the dirtiest player climbs to the top of the great stinking heap.

That's how George H.W. Bush became President. His leveraged his stinking family connections and personal dirt into a CIA directorship, after which he had the dirt on everyone.

Bill Clinton of Arkansas was from a place where both politics and religion worked that way, and is smarter than any Bush, and thus displaced the older Bush from his throne.

[rusty fender]

88. But Clinton's infidelities don't count?

And Bill continued to pile up his dirt while still in the White House!

I agree that the Repukes are dirty, but for you to portray Bill Clinton as the antidote to their dirt is astonishing...

[hunter]

89. Now why would you think I said that?

I said Clinton is smarter than any member of the venal stinking Bush political clan. That's all.

I did not say this kind of politics is exclusive to Fundamentalist Christians and Republicans.

[rusty fender]

96. Fair enough...

I misinterpreted your reference to him

[underpants]

21. Oh nooooooo

[Chasstev365]

25. What Will It Take....

For these Right-wing Christians voters to realize that they are dupes and chumps for economics policies that screw them by religious hypocrites? For the love of Jesus (pun intended) WAKE UP Sheepeople!

[msongs]

26. hacking is a crime. will you laugh when it is your stolen private life plastered online? nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

42. Sweating your Ashley Madison account getting exposed?

Sorry, my private life is pretty boring.

I was a paid member of a female bodybuilder's website a couple of decades ago, and likewise created an AFF account around the same time I think (and I wasn't married back then), but never got around to using it. That's about all of the trail of sordidness I left out there. Don't remember signing up for anything else skeevy.

No nude pics of me on the net, no pics of me even drunk.

Oh, and come to think of it, my stolen data WAS 'plastered online' - a couple of years after I'd been on that bodybuilder's site, I found my account name, name and password in a hacked list on a swedish website after doing a google search on myself. All it meant was that I quickly went around changing my passwords elsewhere, and never used that password or userid anywhere else again.

[EV_Ares]

57. Yes, hacking is a crime but I don't think anyone is laughing but simply pointing out the hypocrispy

of this family, I know I am.

There is nothing funny about it & by the way, I did get caught up in the hacking of the OPM site so I know about getting hacked.

I have nothing to worry about on this site the Duggar got hacked on.

[Scuba]

81. What hypocrisy? He only cheated with other good Christians, no atheists.

[Rozlee]

76. Only if it shows off my cellulite.

His private life was stolen, but he makes a living trying to destroy the rights of people using his assumed moral high ground to pass judgment on them. I have no qualms seeing him get slimed. He's not some innocent consumer who just got his bank account wiped out. He promotes a regressive cult that demeans women while claiming to respect and revere them. People should expect privacy, but when one has the power to influence public policy and then behaves in a manner contrary to the moral authority he wields that allows him that influence, he should be held to more scrutiny.

[Travis_0004]

27. I'll at least hold back grinning until its proven true

First off, I would think he would use a fake name when signing up.

And if his picture was up there, I'm sure somebody would have noticed, and possibly leaked in years ago. I could do a database search, and I would be willing to bet the name Barack Obama comes up, but I wouldn't blame Obama, I would think the name was fake.

This could be true, maybe its not, but I'll wait for a bit more evidence.

[jeff47]

63. He paid with a credit card.

This isn't based on just finding his name or email. It's based on the credit card transaction logs, one contains his old home address, one contains his new home address. The address changed at the same time he moved.

[47of74]

29. Did anyone ever sit the Duggars down?

And take out a different version of the bible that still has this portion of the Gospel non redacted?

‘Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye. (Matt 7:1-5)

[LynneSin]

69. That's the Gospel. Duggars don't follow that hippie stuff..,

they are more Paulists with a bit of Old Testament Hellfire & Brimstone Damnation religion used to judge everyone inferior and force women to submit to the will of man. The

[HFRN]

30. an arena of slime

hackers -> slime
ashley madison company -> slime
Josh Duggar -> slime

[Botany]

31. What say you now Mike Huckabee?

[monmouth4]

48. The Huckster and his sons could be on there too. Ya never know....n/t

[StevieM]

54. Well, one of his sons did kill a dog. So we know he isn't the most ethical person in the world (eom)

[Judi Lynn]

79. After torturing it beyond any chance of redemption first. That son is an ugly monster.

Huckabee did a HELL of a job passing along his moral views to his spawn.

The dog had no escape, no one to rescue it from that reeking, evil pig. It could only suffer endlessly before it was finally lucky enough to die.

I hope there will be pay-back in this lifetime for both the smelly, evil son and the pompous, deceitful, treacherous father.

[rurallib]

32. Hope he put it on the Family Research Council's credit card.

[FSogol]

35. DUzy!

[Fuddnik]

36. Anybody know where I can find a good divorce attorney?

Just kidding.

[StevieM]

55. Well she did mary him knowing full well that he molested his sisters. (eom)

[tabasco]

40. He will go on TV and cry like Jim Bakker and Jerry Falwell did

and continue with his fake Christian, grifting ways.

[Hoppy]

41. Thank you, Jesus. That was pretty funny.

[rocktivity]

43. To quote Rick Ross, "God Forgives, I Don't."

There's been a buzz about a show featuring the Duggars as child molestation counselors -- this should kill it!

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rocktivity

[b.durruti]

45. There is an OKCupid account with the same name as his Ashley Madison email

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/joesmithsonnwa

[dhol82]

84. Did Josh actually graduate college?

[b.durruti]

90. No and it isn't his pic either but it was almost certainly his profile. Gone now though.

See http://gawker.com/is-this-josh-duggars-okcupid-profile-1725202825

[dhol82]

91. They must have hired somebody to scrub the internet

Interesting how stuff is disappearing so rapidly.

[SoapBox]

46. Defend this, mommy and daddy!

What a slime ball.

[TacoD]

60. And Huckabee (nt)

[4lbs]

49. Hey no problem. Just a few days of repentance and a good donation to his church,

and all is forgiven.

Violate the ten commandments? No problem. Just repent for a few days and make a big donation.

Violate the teachings of Christ? No problem. You aren't actually expected to follow all of them. No one does.

Violate the church? No problem. Just repent for a few days and make a big donation. They'll even help you bury the sin.

Violate the laws of common decency? No problem. Hey, he was just a kid. He didn't know what he was doing. Not his fault.

[TwilightGardener]

52. Hey, for what it's worth, at least he's going after legal adults for his jollies now.

This is an IMPROVEMENT. Of sorts.

[niyad]

72. wonder how his wife feels?

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. ouch!

[valerief]

56. OF COURSE he did! No surprise there. nt

[Rose Siding]

59. The timing corresponds with his wife's last 2 pregnacies

amoral shit

[d_r]

64. All of you who said

Gay marriage wasn't going to impact conservative people's heterosexual marriages, well I guess he showed you now didn't he? No wonder he worked at family research council, these $1000 web pages aren't going to pay for themselves.

[Hoppy]

74. His account lapsed in May. Was that when he bought that lamb?

[Lunabell]

77. Cue the right wing support for him in 3, 2, 1...

Mike Huckabees buddy. Huckabee probably has an account too.

[AndreaCG]

78. I went to freeperville to see their take on this

I was disappointed at only 23 responses. (Don't know if I missed an earlier thread) Most were not surprised, one said rude things about his wife if she doesn't leave him (can't totally disagree though I don't wish herpes on her), there were really few if any supporters of Josh, though one person was very skeptical about the source and posted a snopes article. Said article was totally inconclusive however at least so far

Like here there were a ton of Trump threads. I was tempted to read a few but I've been up way too late already

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

83. I nominate Josh for this year's coveted Swaggy Award

It takes a special level of hypocrisy and pseudo-moralizing to even get considered

[IronLionZion]

86. When someone tries too hard to prove something

they are usually repressing or hiding something

[smirkymonkey]

93. Bingo! That's exactly it!

Which is why I am suspicious of all these Family Values types. I imagine that there are a lot of things they are hiding.

[Zambero]

94. Sounds like one of those lifestyle choices to me

But since it's not the 'gay' one, conservatives will be cutting him plenty of slack. His poor wife must be having second thoughts right about now.

[douggg]

95. Makes ya wonder if she thinks twice about leaving the kids

alone with him.