Crossposted at Politicook.net
No doubt that many of you have seen the Duggar family on one of the "educational" cable channels. The show tries to make them come off like a normal family.
The show lies. Jim Bob Duggar is a rich Republican who has made a fortune selling real estate in northwest Arkansas, as the vultures came in to circle the Wal-Mart headquarters. He has made a fortune off of it, and TV royalties as well.
Jim Bob was elected to the Arkansas legislature a few years back, and tried to pass reactionary, dominionist laws. He was rebuffed by most of the legislature, and chose not to run again. He is as radical as they come.
That family was just selected to represent Arkansas on Family Parents Day for this year, why I do not know, except that the Republicans and the evangelicals are strong now in Arkansas.
Here is a link to the story. The Duggars have 17(!) children, and the wife is pregnant with the 18th.
"Be fruitful and multiply" is their operative command.
Notice that all of the boys wear one uniform, and that all of the girls another one.
Please switch channels when those people are on the television. Do not click on their website, to which I will not post a link. They are rich, and getting richer off of their utilization of the media, and I do not want to contribute to it.
Disgusted, but warmest regards, Doc.