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Anti-gay marriage advocate Josh Duggar admits allegations about him cheating on his wife are true
Josh Duggar was speaking out against the right for same-sex couples to get married while he was cheating on his own wife.
The former executive director of the lobbying arm of the anti-gay Family Research Council issued a statement Thursday (21 August) admitting infidelity. This comes amid reports that he had an account with the website Ashley Madison which specializes in facilitating extramarital affairs.
‘I have been the biggest hypocrite ever,’ Duggar stated. ‘While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.
‘I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.’
Duggar is one of the members of the evangelical Christian family that stars in the now-cancelled TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting. He is one of the 19 children of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and a married father of three.
It’s the second scandal Duggar has been involved with this year.
In May, he admitted to sexually abusing five young girls, including some of his sisters, when he was a teenager.
This resulted in his family’s TV show being cancelled and to Duggar resigning from the Family Research Council which advocates and lobbies for socially conservative policies and opposes and lobbies against LGBTI rights such as same-sex marriage and adoption.
Duggar had one of the most visible positions and in May had posted photos on social media of himself with Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Scott Walker. In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified the FRC as an anti-gay hate group.
‘The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings,’ he stated. ‘As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.’
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