We really should read the Arktimes blog more often, so a tip-o-the-hat to Max and the crew in The Rock for this today. We're always on the watch for Duggar related news, so we thought this one was interesting. Seems like Jim Bob has topped Jim Holt in the race for a bigger van for a bigger family. This paper explains how you might now see the entire Duggar army travelling the highways and visiting Wal-Mart in what is definitely not a fuel friendly kind of vehicle...yep, the pic is of the entire family and the new wheels.

The 19-member Duggar family will now take vacations in a bus once used by Cher and the Port Huron Flags hockey team.

Jim Bob Duggar, 42, and Michelle Duggar, 41, of Tontitown, Ark., have 17 children, including two sets of twins.

Fred Minnie, a charter member of the now-defunct Flags team who transported the hockey players in one of his three tour buses, sold the bus to the Duggars in early September.

The Christian couple who don't believe in using birth control have been featured in four Discovery Health/TLC documentaries, such as 14 Children and Pregnant Againand On the Road with 16 Children, and in interviews on the Today Show, CNN and in national and international publications and documentaries.

Ok, so what makes that bus roll? Or, more precisely, what gives with the Duggars and their avoidance of birth control? We've asked on more than one occasion, but have just now learned a little more about the belief system that produces such a very large brood. Seems Jim Bob and Michelle are members of something called the "Quiverfull" movement...here's some more on what that is...

Quiverfull authors Hess and Hess, along with Joyce, also connect the proliferation of conservative politics as a motivation behind Quiverfull. Hess and Hess state,

When at the height of the Reagan Revolution the conservative faction in Washington was enforced with squads of new conservative congressmen, legislators often found themselves handcuffed by lack of like-minded staff. There simply weren't enough conservatives trained to serve in Washington in the lower and middle capacities.

Hess and Hess continue by envisioning that the offspring of Quiverfull families might enter national and local politics to bring conservative majorities, publicly-funded education to bring the teaching of creationism, and business to adjure companies to adhere to what adherents see as Christian sensibilities.

We also learned that Jim Bob is a follower (to some extent, we're not sure how much...JB, if you're reading this, educate us) of Bill Gothard, whom we cannot quite figure out, except to read that he's had some problems, and espouses some sort of self-reliance super Christianity (yep, a fundie)...

Personal Freedom Outreach (PFO) is a group devoted to exposing movements the group considers cults. The PFO published criticism about Gothard in three basic areas: a view that Gothard's views are legalistic teachings and interpretations of Scripture, a belief that IBLP and its adherents exhibit a "cult-like" mentality, and concern about Gothard's application of authoritarianism within his own organization.[15] Gothard was also accused by some of being hypocritical for not practicing what he preaches about conflict resolution,[16] and for his "quiverfull" teachings that married believers should eschew birth control and have as many children as possible, given that Gothard himself is unmarried and childless at age 72.

OK, so we've known Jim Bob is Taliban. He's always been that way and it's hard not to know it when he has the entire family playing musical instruments and releasing a music CD all about how abortion is wrong. Didn't help him much in his most recent run for office. They're still nice people, if a bit like the Addamms Family. And we don't agree with their philosophy, but it seems to work for them. Just don't force it on the rest of us, and we have a recipe for peace. VIA

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