Josh Duggar Social Media Part 11 - Seriously? 11?

[Ralar]

Josh Duggar: Christians who aren’t allowed to discriminate against gays are victims of discrimination

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/josh-duggar-christians-who-arent-allowed-to-discriminate-against-gays-are-victims-of-discrimination/

[alba]

Josh Duggar: Christians who aren’t allowed to discriminate against gays are victims of discrimination

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/josh-duggar-christians-who-arent-allowed-to-discriminate-against-gays-are-victims-of-discrimination/

Thoughts:

This guy's job is impeding same-sex marriage and he doesn't even know how many other countries it's legal in? Or that Canada, possibly the closest country to the US, has been one such country for a year?

Does Josh not have a speechwriter? Cause if he does, he should fire them.

[JHeathen]

Is this thread the new incarnation of the Josh Duggar Social Media thread?

I was looking for mention of that last article and wondering if there was more commentary to be found on the older thread...not sure if it's active or if it's been merged, or what...

[HereticHick]

Wonkette rips Josh a new one:

http://wonkette.com/584245/watch-this-d ... y-marriage

"You know why you should kill your teevee? So it will stop giving “reality†shows to idiots and making them famous and convincing them that they know anything about anything, when they don’t know a goddamned thing about nothin’. Like homeschooled moron Josh Duggar, who describes himself as QUOTE UNQUOTE “being the oldest of 19 kids and counting†(nice plug for your family’s show!), and is also an executive blowhard at the anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council.

Josh Duggar shared some “thoughts†recently at the March for Marriage, a rally for sad bigots to come together in Washington DC and pray the Supreme Court will tell them they have a constitutional right to live in a gay-free America. Look, here is one of his “thoughts†now!

"This is fundamental because only one other country in the entire world has ever redefined marriage, and that was Brazil, when they stepped in through the court system to do that."

OK, dummy, we know that when your mom was learning you how to know stuff at the kitchen table, the globe probably just looked like a giant map of U.S. America everywhere like such as, so you don’t know your other countries too good, but that is wrong, sir..."

[SamiKatz]

Thoughts:

This guy's job is impeding same-sex marriage and he doesn't even know how many other countries it's legal in? Or that Canada, possibly the closest country to the US, has been one such country for a year?

Does Josh not have a speechwriter? Cause if he does, he should fire them.

Canada recognized same sex marriages in 2005, so almost 10 years ago. And we've yet to rot in hell for it, too!

[paganhomeschooler]

Huffpo posted the story this morning on FB. Could we possibly be seeing the beginning of the self destruction of the dog and pony show?? 95% of the comments were saying how horrible the Duggars.

[goldfishgoddess]

Josh is such a sanctimonious little know-it all twerp, you want to smack him.

At least Boob has a sense of humor and shows his chicken side. Josh tries too hard to be a big guy.

[Ursula]

Canada recognized same sex marriages in 2005, so almost 10 years ago. And we've yet to rot in hell for it, too!

Yeah, same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Canada for nearly a decade, and longer than that in most provinces.

Same-sex marriage was legally recognized in the provinces and territories as of the following dates:

June 10, 2003: Ontario

July 8, 2003: British Columbia

March 19, 2004: Quebec

July 14, 2004: Yukon territory

September 16, 2004: Manitoba

September 24, 2004: Nova Scotia

November 5, 2004: Saskatchewan

December 21, 2004: Newfoundland and Labrador

June 23, 2005: New Brunswick

July 20, 2005 (Civil Marriage Act): Alberta, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut territory, and the Northwest Territories

Starting in June 2003 with Ontario, it took just a little over two years for the Civil Marriage Act to become law and force the last few provinces and territories into the 21st century (Alberta went kicking and screaming, of course - they're basically the Bible Belt of Canada)

"In 2012, a poll by Forum Research showed that 66.4% of Canadians approved of legalized same-sex marriage, while 33.6% were opposed. Support for same-sex marriage was highest in Quebec (72%) and British Columbia (70.2%), while lowest in Alberta (45.6%)"

Ugh, Alberta. At least West Edmonton Mall is a cool place to visit.

But anyway, 10+ years of same-sex marriage in Canada and god has yet to smote our asses into a fiery pit in the center of the earth or whatever smiting god does these days. I think America will be just fine, too.

[HereticHick]

Behold, Josh's New Boss, a pants wearing working mother who runs marathons & has a secular law school degree:

The Family Research Council Gets Its First Chief of Staff -

National Journal Magazine, May 1, 2015

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine ... f-20150501

"Shannon Royce is a marathon runner, but when I ask her how her new job is going, a different sort of track metaphor leaps to mind. "It's like trying to mount Secretariat in the middle of a race," she tells me. "I'm still a little wobbly." Earlier this month, Royce, 55, became the first ever chief of staff and chief operating officer of the Family Research Council, the Christian group that advocates for socially conservative policies. She now works under FRC President Tony Perkins to oversee the routine operations of the organization and its 85-person staff, as it carries out its mission "to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview."...

Royce grew up in Austin, Texas, the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher, and her father helped impart many of the values she still holds today. After she graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene in 1982, Royce landed a job in San Diego with the conservative Christian activist group Concerned Women for America. She moved to Washington with the organization in 1984, and four years later began law school at George Washington University. "...

"In 1989, she went to work on the Hill for then-Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington and later for Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. After her second son was born, Royce began working part-time, first with the Of the People Foundation, a small parental-rights group, and then with the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, where she eventually became director of government relations and legislative counsel."

...

"Having worked as a contractor for FRC, Royce says she had "a good relationship" with Perkins, and when he offered her the position, she leapt at the chance. "I was thinking and praying about going back to a more traditional role in the workforce," she says. As a professionally accomplished woman who has always tailored her work around her home life, Royce found the timing of the offer particularly auspicious. Her youngest son was preparing for college (he is currently a junior in high school), and contract work no longer seemed like an imperative."

[for those of you who know the Penn Quarter neighborhood, that is a corner office on F Street, looking at the American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery out the right window]

Josh is so out of his depth at FRC. I think he knows he's there only because of 19KAC. When that goes off the air, FRC is going to send him packing.