Jed Duggar is Not Fit for Public Office

Can we just leave this family in 2019?

Jed Duggar, who turns 21 today, is running to represent the 89th district in Arkansas’ House of Representatives. Yeah, those Duggars.

A quick recap:

The Duggars are the family who likened abortion to the Holocaust.

Michelle, the Duggar family matriarch, once said in an interview that women “always need to be available” to answer their husbands’ “physical needs of love”. Martial rape, anyone?

They’re the family who protested against a bill granting protections to the LGBTQ+ community, with Michelle claiming in a fear-mongering robocall that the bill would allow “males with past child predator convictions” to enter areas currently designated as female-only. It’s funny she’s so concerned about child predators, when she knew her son molested her daughters (yes, plural) and other young girls as a teenager and was complicit in covering it up.

Of course, Jed may have been raised by a woman who bullied a community into taking away rights from LGBTQ+ people and a man who worked diligently to bury sex crimes against his own daughters, but Jed is not his parents and it would be remiss to hold him accountable for their words or actions. So let’s hold him accountable for his own.