The Brutal Takedown of the Duggar Family’s Evangelical Crusade

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The Brutal Takedown of the Duggar Family’s Evangelical Crusade
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''Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets' reveals the Duggars to be not quirky anti-birth control kooks, but insidious radicals with an abhorrent agenda,' writes nschager

that featured his abused sisters defending him). The same was true of Gothard and his brother Steve, who were accused of fondling, assaulting, and raping minors , and yet suffered no legal consequences for their alleged misdeeds.Josh may have gotten away with his initial crimes, but he wasn’t so lucky in 2019, when he was busted by the feds for possessing appalling child pornography.

Directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Olivia Crist’s docuseries casts Josh’s conduct as par for this culture’s course. That’s evidenced by the numerous ex-IBLP members who bravely recount their horrendous experiences in Gothard’s de facto cult.

Elsewhere in the docuseries, Duggar family friends Jim and Bobye Holt discuss their shock and horror at Josh’s actions, and the relief they felt upon speaking out against them at his trial. Still, the biggest “get” ofis Jill Dillard , one of Josh’s original victims, who sits down with husband Derick for an extended conversation about living under Jim Bob and Michelle’s roof, the morals she was brainwashed into accepting, and her eventual decision to separate herself from her relatives.

Jill skirts any outright denunciation of Josh, and more than once, she makes clear that she wishes her own abuse had never gone public—an apparent example of how deeply she’s been taught to shield crimes . Nonetheless, she’s critical of her upbringing and the show, and the fact that she was never properly compensated for her participation on, which speaks to another way that evangelicals take advantage of people: through financial exploitation that often entails child labor.

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