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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
If someone is a moral scold, especially a very public one, I tend to wonder what skeletons are hanging out in his or her closet.
Last I read, TLC is thinking about just firing the son from the show, so they can keep the show going. Because apparently, the parents protecting him from legal repercussions isn't disgusting enough to keep them off the air.
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lol
i said exactly that on slate, about skeletons falling out of the closet. yeah, the parents behavior is reprehensible. they knew this was going on, and handled it...poorly. i get that no one wants a son to get 'in trouble', but at his age, counseling would have done wonders, and most likely is all that would have been needed. at that age, they can typically counsel so that the behavior won't continue.
here's link to a story about other fundies getting in trouble:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...cking_the.html
and here's a new offering:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...love_them.html
when the huckster was on the daily show, he dared call out beyonce for how children might view her onstage behavior. stewart brought up him hanging out with the nuge, but didn't really get into why that mattered...ted nugent had a couple actually sign over their daughter to him as guardian--she was 16. they knew the reason why ted wanted to be her 'guardian'...so, huck will hang out with statutory rapists on the one hand, and call out a females on stage behavior...and he sees nothing wrong with that?
it is amazing to me how someone can say one thing, and do another. as tho there's a disconnect between what they see, and what they do.
when i was at a continuing education class not long ago, they showed clips of a documentary, to discuss ethics. the documentary was done by a college in texas (a and m perhaps?) and the subject was jack abramoff. he came and did an interview with them. one thing jumped out at me, and i really think it's a key to these peoples' behavior.
he said (in a nutshell) that he was a very ethical person. over time, he quit really discussing with himself if something was ethical or not...he began to go down the wrong road, but he felt when he thought about it-well, i'm an ethical person, so if i made that choice,
it must be ethical'. of course it wasn't...but i really think that's how people end up in the situations they end up in. they stop really thinking about a question, a deed, an offering of a gift, etc, because hey, they're ethical, so their behavior must be.