Michelle Duggar and the entire Duggar clan appear to be hiding a huge secret. The anti-gay bigots have a gay family member: Michelle’s sister. Evelyn Ruark, Michelle’s lesbian sister, reportedly worries about Michelle’s lifestyle in the Quiverfull movement. This is according to Ruark’s life partner, Sharon Callahan.
Callahan says that Michelle appears to be the victim of “brainwashing” performed by the Quiverfull movement, which Callahan describes as a “cult.” She says that she and Ruark are concerned about Michelle constantly, and the unusual lifestyle into which Michelle has possibly been coerced. The Quiverfull movement encourages women to have as many children as possible and forbids them from using birth control.
The two sisters have a strained relationship, but recently, Michelle was photographed with her gay sibling. Ruark and Callahan do not support Michelle’s lifestyle choices, and she apparently does not support theirs.
The Duggars are notorious anti-gay bigots who actively campaign against gays and attempt to strip homosexuals of equality. One of the Duggar sons recently spearheaded an anti-gay march in an effort to destroy gay marriage. Michelle and Jim Bob also discriminated against gays when they asked married couples to post pictures of themselves kissing on their Facebook page, but then removed any photos of gay couples from the page.
That action, along with Michelle’s anti-gay rhetoric, prompted a petition to be launched to cancel the Duggar’s show 19 Kids and Counting. In November, the petition received over 180,000 signatures, The Daily Mail reports.
Michelle is an activist who works hard to strip gay people of their rights. She supports the discrimination of gays at businesses, and recently participated in a series of robocalls, urging people to vote to strike down an ordinance that would have protected LGBT people against discrimination. In that call, she suggested that gays and transgender people are all child molesters.
Michelle was born into a family that is not very religious. It is unclear how she got roped into the ultra-conservative Quiverfull group. Now that news has broken that Michelle has a gay sister, will she become any more tolerant of others’ natural sexual orientations? That remains to be seen, but for now, it looks as though Michelle and the rest of the Duggars will carry on with their hateful, discriminatory ways.