’19 Kids And Counting’ Petition To Cancel Show Will Not Silence Jim Bob Duggar


19 Kids and Counting petition has only helped keep the show on the air and bolstered the family, according to patriarch Jim Bob Duggar. LGBT activists started the petition to urge TLC to cancel its most popular show, after the Duggar clan robocall that some feel is anti-gay and bashes the LGBT community.

Jim Bob Duggar recently sat down with the Pathway for an interview. The Christian publication is reportedly run by the Missouri Baptist Convention. The 19 Kids and Counting petition was launched in November on Change.org. To date, the Duggar petition has garnered more than 180,000 signatures. Jim Wissick, a San Jose, California native, started the petition because he feels Jim Bob Duggar and his family have exhibited “homophobia.”

Jim Wissick is particularly upset with Michelle Duggar and her reported push for the repeal of an anti-discrimination law which impacts transgender individuals.

“We love everybody, but we don’t always agree with them. They won’t succeed,” Jim Bob Duggar stated during the Pathways interview. “Our show is the number one show on TLC. We love everybody. It’s a small group creating this fuss. All it has done is give us more exposure. We’ve gained 50,000 Facebook fans last week. God is expanding our borders through the national media.”

19 Kids and Counting premiered on TLC in 2008. The series was originally called 17 Kids and Counting. Jim Bob Duggar and his family received their highest ratings to date in October. The show garnered 4.41 million viewers during a two-hour special focused upon the Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard wedding. The episode achieved the highest ratings since TLC aired Sarah Palin’s Alaska in 2010.

In response to the 19 Kids and Counting petition, supporters of Jim Bob Duggar and the family launched a petition of their own on November 20. The Duggar petition garnered approximately 33,000 signatures to date.

“Liberal activists are at it again with another attempt to pressure TLC to cancel ‘19 Kids and Counting,’ the successful cable television show featuring the Duggar family and their pro-life values,” the petition seeking to keep 19 Kids and Counting on the air reads. “The Duggar family’s central theme is their pro-life, Christian values and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 19 children have been outspoken over the years in defending human life from abortion and promoting abstinence education.”

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[Image via: Duggar Family website]

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