A petition asking TLC to cancel the anti-gay Duggar family’s reality show is gaining traction after an entertainment news site featured it.
The Duggar family has repeatedly been accused of being anti-gay. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are the parents on TLC’s hit reality TV show, “19 Kids and Counting.” Most recently, the Duggars asked couples to post photos of themselves kissing, on their official Facebook page. Once same-sex couples began posting photos, many of the were removed, including one posted by LGBT activist and editor-in-chief of Bilerico John Becker.
“The Duggars have been using their fame to promote discrimination, hate, and fear-mongering against gays and transgendered [sic] people,” the Change.org petition by Jim Wissick states. “You need to take a stand on the side of justice and cancel their show.”
It accuses the Duggars of throwing “massive amounts of money to repeal” an anti-discrimination law and adds that Michelle Duggar recorded a robocall “warning Fayetteville residents that transgender people are child predators and that the law will somehow protect that predatory behavior.”
“Josh Duggar has also taken a position at the so called ‘Family Research Council‘. The Family Research Center [sic] is such a hate-filled, anti-gay organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010 labeled it a ‘hate group’ for its ‘dissemination of false and demonizing propaganda about gays and lesbians,'” the petition adds.
The petition, which was posted in August, had only about 7000 signatures until last evening, when E! Online published a story featuring it. There are now nearly 11,000 signatures.
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