Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar has checked himself into a long term treatment center after being implicated in multiple salacious scandals.

News of Duggar entering rehab comes only six days after he admitted to living a “double life” in a statement confirming his involvement with Ashley Madison, the infamous website for individuals interested in arranging extramarital affairs.

In that statement Duggar confessed to his hypocrisy and his betrayal:

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. 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.

Now, in a statement issued earlier today, August 26, Duggar’s parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, declared that their son had “brought great insult to the values and faith we hold dear,” while sharing the news that their oldest son had entered a long-term treatment center.

Duggar Family Statement:

We are so thankful for the outpouring of love, care and prayers for our family during this most difficult situation with Josh. As parents we are so deeply grieved by our son’s decisions and actions. His wrong choices have deeply hurt his precious wife and children and have negatively affected so many others. He has also brought great insult to the values and faith we hold dear. Yesterday Josh checked himself into a long-term treatment center. For him it will be a long journey toward wholeness and recovery. We pray that in this he comes to complete repentance and sincere change. In the meantime, we will be offering our love, care and devoted support to Anna and our grandchildren as she also receives counsel and help for her own heart and future. During this time we continue to look to God—He is our rock and comfort. We ask for your continued prayers for our entire family.

The good news is that Duggar is seeking treatment. There can be no doubt that Josh needs counseling and some serious help. Last month TLC cancelled “19 Kids and Counting,” after it was revealed that Josh sexually assaulted four of his underage sisters plus an additional underage female victim.

Adding insult to injury, last week Josh released a statement declaring “I have been the biggest hypocrite ever” and admitting to living a “double life” while confirming his involvement with Ashley Madison, the infamous website for individuals interested in arranging extramarital affairs.

And earlier today, multiple media outlets report that Duggar paid for sex with porn star Danica Dillon while his wife Anna was pregnant with their fourth child.

What is alarming is not so much that Josh paid for consensual sex, what is alarming is that Dillon reports that the sexual encounter was traumatizing, and that Duggar was violent with her and refused to use protection.

Duggar’s behavior indicates a serious and troubling problem with women. No doubt his despicable behavior is linked at least in part to his traumatizing upbringing in an environment of Christian extremism.

Indeed, Duggar is a victims of Christian patriarchy, a victim of Christian homeschooling, a victim of Christian parents who raised him to be an ideological prop in their perverted and deluded fantasy of Christian dominion.

Duggar is a victim of the radical Christian lifestyle known as the Quiverfull movement, a movement where children are raised to be cannon fodder in the Lord’s army: culture warriors bred to promote an ugly, intolerant, sexist, and homophobic brand of Christian extremism.

Given the extreme pressures of his parents’ perverse Christian faith, coupled with the pressures of being a child reality star, it is easy to understand why Duggar might be experiencing problems as an adult.

While the good news is that Duggar is seeking treatment, the bad news is that reports indicate Duggar has entered a “faith based” treatment program, which means Josh will not get the help he needs. Instead, in a Christian treatment center approved of by his extremist parents, Josh will probably end up blaming Satan for his misbehavior, rather than taking responsibility for his own actions.

Hiding behind religious superstition is not going to help Josh Duggar. For Josh, checking into some fundamentalist “faith based” treatment center is like an alcoholic going to a bar to stop drinking. It’s not going to work.

Good news: TLC has cancelled “19 Kids and Counting,” the obnoxious reality television show that celebrated conservative Christian values while protecting a child molester.

TLC cancelled the program after a large public outcry in the wake of damning revelations that Josh Duggar, the oldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, sexually assaulted four of his underage sisters plus an additional underage female victim.

Compounding and contributing to the crime, a “conspiracy to “forgive and forget” forged by the Duggar parents and church leaders allowed Josh Duggar to escape criminal prosecution for sexually assaulting his underage victims.

The disgraced Josh Duggar now admits to what police reports confirm: the oldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar forcibly fondled and sexually assaulted at least five underage girls, including four of his sisters, on multiple occasions, over the span of several years, while he was a teenager.

Josh Duggar was never prosecuted for his crimes, and Jim Bob Duggar waited over one year to alert police to the fact that his son was sexually abusing his daughters, despite the fact that both Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar were aware that multiple incidents of sexual abuse in their home had occurred.

In 2006 multiple underage victims testified to police that Josh Duggar had sexually molested them. However, Josh was never prosecuted for his crimes, and the statute of limitations has since passed.

According to reports, Josh Duggar apologized to the girls he had sexually assaulted, and family members told police that the girls had “forgiven” him.

The Duggars are part of a radical Christian lifestyle known as the Quiverfull movement, a movement where children are considered canon fodder in the Lord’s army: culture warriors bred to promote an ugly, intolerant, sexist, and homophobic brand of Christian extremism.

Last month, speaking with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar denied their son Josh was a pedophile and blamed the media for targeting the family in an anti-Christian conspiracy.

Compounding the family’s troubles, reports issued earlier this month indicate serial child molester Josh Duggar is facing a lawsuit from one of his underage victims who is not a member of the Duggar family.

(Portions of this article were previously published here)

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate Jim Bob Duggar argued those guilty of incest deserved the death penalty.

Before he was the star of 19 Kids and Counting, Jim Bob Duggar was a prominent political figure in Arkansas, serving as a member of the state’s House of Representatives before running for the U.S. Senate in 2002.

Duggar lost his 2002 bid to be the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, however, he did take positions as a candidate. While trying to justify his anti-choice, anti-abortion stance, U.S. Senate candidate Jim Bob Duggar stated forcefully and clearly that those guilty of rape and incest should be put to death.

The following appeared on Duggar’s campaign website:

Q. What is your abortion position, and specifically, where do you stand on rape, incest, and threat to the mother’s health?

A. If a woman is raped, the rapist should be executed instead of the innocent unborn baby. Adoption is an option. Many couples would love to adopt and are waiting for a baby. Abortion has been and always will be the destruction of an innocent child. Rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes. The developing infant committed no crime and should be allowed to live. In the unlikely event that the life of both mother and baby would both be lost (for example, a tubal pregnancy) all should be done to save the life of the mother.

Rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.

However, Jim Bob failed to hold his son Josh accountable for sexually assaulting four of his underage sisters (Jim Bob’s daughters) plus an additional underage female victim. In fact, Jim Bob covered up his son’s crime for over a year, and consequently Josh was never prosecuted for his incestuous crimes, faced no legal consequences, and apparently received no treatment for his clearly deranged behavior.

A conspiracy to “forgive and forget” allowed Josh Duggar, the oldest son of “19 Kids and Counting” Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, to escape criminal prosecution for sexually assaulting his underage sisters plus an additional underage female victim.

Alas, Jim Bob Duggar’s hypocrisy is not surprising, and is but a footnote to this disturbing and ugly tragedy.