Posted on 08/26/2014 10:53:34 AM PDT by DariusBane
You would see me across the room when we arrived on Saturday night for staff dinner. You’d signal to me in a personal and private way that you wanted me to sit with you. And you always positioned me just directly across from you. You’d slide your feet out of your shoes and play footsies with me. You would use your feet to feel But rather than offering that protection, you exploited that situation. You asked me to tell you how it felt. To tell you if my body was aroused by their touches. You wanted vivid details. But you didn’t just want them once. For months, we had the same conversations. Repeatedly. Alone. No parent sitting in. No accountability for you. No protection for me.
You violated me in your own way by repeatedly demanding me to talk about those graphic sexual acts with you. You taught me that there are no “victims” in sexual abuse; only people who have un-confessed sin in their life and are now receiving their own. You taught me to feel shame for my body’s sexual responses. You held me responsible for what they’d done to me, telling me that if I did not comply with our “counseling sessions”, you would have no choice but to take my situation to the local authorities. You coerced me. ...my calves and knees and feet all the while, smiling warmly and winking at me in those fractions of a second when no one was watching.
As an adult now – and especially as a parent of daughters – I have gone through tremendous sadness for my young self that there simply was not within me the red lights that should have been flashing. Something inside of me was not right and you were the one who impeded
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Bill Gothard is the man behind the Duggers.
BTW,
Heather was 11 years old when this started.
Are you accusing the Duggers by Guilt by Association?
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He certainly is
He's been trolling this thread for hours. The Duggars are scum.
They are a big big part of that “ministry”. They are personal friends of BG. Anybody remotely connected with that “ministry” knows that the current scandal is a repeat of the 1980 scandal.
The Duggers are at the very least complicate by there silence and participation.
They are cultists and should be treated with the same skepticism given the Hubbardites.
If trolling means exposing cockroaches to sunlight then I am guilty as charged.
If the Duggers(whoever they are) are preaching something un-Biblical then go after that. The logic of lumping one man's sin on all of an organization is beyond idiotic.
Really? How are they cultist? What is their Biblical lie they teach or do you need to learn what a Christian cult is?
Yes BG is a man.
His ministry has gone on since 1980 when sex allegations first came up. His ministry perpetrates a closed cycle loop of abuse, control, cover up.
So yeah if you want to just look the other way, go ahead. I won’t.
How are they cultist?
A closed society with strict internal confidentiality enforced with shamming, exclusion, and sometimes imprisonment.
Special knowledge, hidden scripture meaning, restrictions on associations.
Special dress, special rules, one special guy at the top who “can do no wrong”.
A whole lot of people at this web site will open your eyes if they can be opened.
I haven’t the faintest idea what this thread is about.
I just read this article in its entirety and it is appalling.
This *BG is a man and sinner just like the rest of us* meme is the EXACT same one Catholics use to defend their pederast priests.
You can lump one man’s sin on an organization when HE is it and runs it.
I went to IBYP a couple times.
When we homeschooled, we had friends who did his homeschooling program and they fit right in with that cult mentality about how children were supposed to behave, etc. They had all the answers.
Turns out one of their sons moved away from home as a young man and was living with his girlfriend and had rented a separate apartment that he claimed he was living in and his parents thought he was really living there the whole time he was living with his girlfriend.
Clearly, God spared us from getting sucked into what he had to offer.
After reading this article, I am going to find all our materials and shred or burn them or somehow dispose of them.
BG exerted so much control over individuals and was so highly regarded and revered that is impossible to seperate the man from the org or its teaching. Shameful that evangelicals failed to Police him. Charles Stanley stood up for him as did Bob Jones, Gary Smalley and others.
This *BG is a man and sinner just like the rest of us* meme is the EXACT same one Catholics use to defend their pederast priests.
...gee, what do you know...it’s the same exact thing Protestants do when defending their pederasts and homosexuals...we could go on and on, couldn’t we...?
Which Protestant do you see defending pederast and homosexual Prots?
Are you saying all Catholics believe in abusing children the way a few priest have done and thus being Catholic is a cult?
What I said is unless the Duggards(whoever they are) are preach something that puts them in the cult status then stop painting all of them with the same brush.
You can not say all Catholics are evil because of a few evil men, nor all Baptist are evil because one preacher is evil or Church of Christ, Presbyterian etc.!
I think if you take a step back and think logically you could get the point.
this is a situation, FAR more prevelant in Prot denominations than in Catholicism...which Prot denominations have gotten together, admitted their lack of attention to this problem, and paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to their "victims"??? The Prots, of course, are not a single entity that can be sued and therefore could ignore this whole situation with impunity. That, of course, in no way diminishes their acceptance and lack of concern.....it just basically absolves them of responsibility to the victims....pathetic.
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