Josh Duggar, Oldest of the 19-Child Reality TV Family, Takes a Job with an Anti-Gay Hate Group

Josh Duggar, the oldest of the Duggar children from TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, has accepted a job as Executive Director at the FRC Action group of Family Research Council, the SPLC-designated hate group run by Tony Perkins, GLAAD reports:

Duggar has said in the past that he "will be working with a Christian organization to help promote 'family values and right to life.”  But FRC has spent  decades attacking same-sex couples and their families, as well as the families of LGBT young people. Duggar said that he will be working on the 501c4 side of the organization, which is more politically driven. He can't even claim he's just going to shape the culture.

Now that Josh Duggar has accepted a position at such an anti-gay organization, he has become a full-fledged anti-gay activist. What does this mean for TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting? Will TLC allow it to become a mainstream outlet for FRC’s dangerous message? What about the Duggar family's appearances in other media? Will his work with one of the most vile anti-gay organizations in America be legitimized there?

"If Josh Duggar wants to make a living dehumanizing and denigrating LGBT people and their families, that's his business, but FRC's lies and stereotypes need to be treated as such," said GLAAD Spokesperson Wilson Cruz. "Josh's new boss Tony Perkins has actually accused LGBT equality advocates of being pawns of the devil.  Fans of his family's reality show ought to know that."

Listen to Duggar make the announcement, below:

Jeremy Hooper at Good As You adds:

Not only is Josh going to work at FRC, but he's actually going to work on the action side. This kid is going to head up FRC's Political Action Committee! This means that he won't even be able to claim he's just commentating or advocating or something else that sounds sweet and innocent. No, no—this reality TV scion is going to be heading up the wing of FRC that goes against us on the hill, in state legislatures, at the ballot box, etc. He has taken a position that directly seeks to stop (or even rollback) our rights and protections!

Look, it's his life, his career, and his choice. In terms of the gig itself, I say bring it! I'm more than ready to challenge whatever he plans.

But don't even try, TLC network, to position Josh's story as something that should warm the fires within my own heart and home. That ship has sailed. This TLC star is going to be paid to spearhead a quest that seeks to diminish, if not completely extinguish, all that I hold dear within my own marriage, family, and home. Forget carefully edited reality TV—for me and millions of others, this crap just got really real. For real.

Tony Perkins: Gays Are 30% Of TV Characters, Are Make-Believe People

Hate group leader Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, claims that gays make up 30% of TV show characters and storylines, and that "lovable gay characters" - presumably ones like Cam and Mitchell from Modern Family - are Trojan horses used to "desensitize Americans," reports Right Wing Watch.

Said Perkins:

The debate over same-sex marriage has been perfectly scripted by Hollywood. Television shows are full of lovable gay characters, whose dangerous lifestyle is just another funny footnote. Unfortunately for America, those make-believe people are having a real-life impact. In a new survey, almost 20% of Americans credit television with changing their minds on same-sex marriage. And that’s no accident. Homosexuals make up 4% of the population, but they’re a whopping 30% of TV characters and storylines. Liberals are using this barrage to desensitize America and viewers are buying it. Of course, producers don’t show you the reality of homosexuality: the men and women dying of AIDS, or the same-sex couples threatening Christian businesses. They don’t cast the Dan Savages bullying kids or the parents kicked out of school for opposing gay curriculum. Like most everything else on TV, it’s fiction. 

The 30% statistic is pulled from a quote by screenwriter Barbara Nicolosi over at the National Catholic Register, who offers no context or source for her statistic beyond her subjective experiences in Hollywood. Barbara is the Founder and Chair Emeritus of Act One, Inc., a Christian non-profit organization that trains aspiring scriptwriters and producers starting out in Hollywood.

GLAAD calculates a slightly different statistic for the 2012-2013 season at 4.4%, with the five major broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC - offering 31 regular and 19 recurring characters that identify as LGBT in their scripted series and mainstream cable providing 35 regular and 26 recurring LGBT characters.

Hate Group Takes Out Ad in 'Dallas Morning News' Urging Boy Scouts to Uphold Gay Ban

The Family Research Council, an SPLC-designated hate group, is running a full-page ad today in the Dallas Morning News urging the Boy Scouts to uphold its ban on gay scouts and leaders, Good As You reports.

Writes Jeremy Hooper:

They simply don't believe in the concept of well-adjusted LGBT people and don't want us to have rights, opportunities, or basic peace of mind. Let's be clear here: That is the underlying drive that's informing this whole thing.

Check out the ad below.

The BSA is planning a vote today on the proposal to lift the ban on gay scouts (and keep the ban on gay leaders).

Earlier...
Gay Boy Scout Camp Counselor Fired on Camera After Coming Out: VIDEO [tlrd]
Boy Scouts to Vote Today on Proposal to Lift Ban on Gay Scouts [tlrd]
Rep. Jim Bridenstine Blasts 'Intolerant Left' for Bullying the Boy Scouts: VIDEO [tlrd]

 

SPLC-designated "hate group" encourages Boy Scouts to back discrimination

Bigoted Family Wants the Boy Scouts to Remain Anti-Gay: VIDEO

Keith and Katherine Goode have been "blessed" with a "quiver full" of 10 children.

Five of their seven boys are in Boy Scouts. The rest of them, while not in the Scouts, have been dragged into a heinous video for the Family Research Council demanding the Boy Scouts uphold its pledge to be "morally straight" by not allowing gay scouts and leaders.

Says Keith: "It's not fair. If we have one openly homosexual boy, where do we tent him? Who has to sleep in his tent? How do we handle his needs? Suddenly it's becoming unfair to all the other boys to have to change.

Says Katherine: "I'm not going to put my boys in that situation to have to deal with those decisions."

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

And, supposing studies that suggest famlies with a large number of brothers and sisters make it more likely that one of the younger brothers is gay are correct, what are the odds that at least one of those kids in Goode's "quiver" is gay? Probably pretty good.

Family Research Council on Boy Scouts: Gays are 'Not Clean' and Will 'Come On' to Other Scouts - VIDEO

Right Wing Watch has posted a highlight reel of Family Research Council's 'Stand with Scouts Sunday' hatecast. Earlier I posted clips featuring Rick Perry and Rep. Steve Palazzo.

The reel features two Boy Scouts talking about gays.

Says one of the Scouts: "In the Scout law, one of the points of the Scout law is that a scout is clean...Homosexual acts are not considered clean in the Boy Scouts."

Another says: "Me at 11 or 12 and having my buddy come on to me. I wouldn't have known what to do at that age. Especially if it were an older scout who I would look up to."

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Congressman on Boy Scouts: Gay Rights Being 'Crammed Down Their Throat' - VIDEO

Another guest on the 'Stand with Scouts Sunday' webcast was Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS), who called for the removal of "the agitators" trying to "corrupt" the Boy Scouts.

Said Palazzo:

“The Boy Scouts are actually being bullied worse than any group or organization that has ever been bullied before. They've been intimidate, they're being extorted...they're being harassed. At the end of the day they're also being ridiculed... If America cannot support the Boy Scouts...then what do we stand for as a country? [The Scouts must] “remove the agitators who are trying to corrupt the Boy Scouts of America and bend to popular culture.”

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...