[defconw]

I am going to assume that you have not watched the show. Where it was true that in the early years the Duggars were more repressed, I have watched the entire show and over the years they have relaxed. They quit going to a church and started to worship with their friends at their own home.

Now I am not a Protestant so I really don't know how prevalent that sort of thing is, but I do know that once upon a time this was a free country and people were allowed to worship in any way they pleased. They were also allowed to raise their children the way they saw fit. Free Republic used to stand for freedom. Not so sure anymore that that is the case.

[CatherineofAragon]

You assume wrong. I've watched it now and then, but not often. The Duggar family's teachings are taken straight from the Gothard cult. I'm an evangelical Christian and I can tell you it's not at all prevalent. I know no one like the Duggars. A friend of mine who is Catholic said to me, "You cannot tell me those Duggars are in any way mainstream Protestant", and she was right on the money.

I'm surprised you bring up the issue of religious freedom. Who here is trying to force the Duggars to worship differently? How would we even begin to go about that?

We have our religious freedom, but we also have freedom of speech, which means we're free to criticize and opine if we see fit.