Here's Josh Duggar Making an Incest Joke on '19 Kids and Counting'

The week's most depressing TV news story keeps getting worse.

By now you may have heard about Josh Duggar's scandal in which it was revealed that the "19 Kids and Counting" star molested his sisters, who ranged in age from 4 to 12, when he was 14 years old. Duggar has issued a non-apologetic apology in which he makes no effort to acknowlege his victims, and has stepped down from his job as an anti-gay-marriage lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

The story has been made even more unbearable by the ongoing support offered by the likes of Jessa Duggar's father-in-law Michael Seewald and politician Mike Huckabee, both of whom think that we should all support poor Josh because hey, he made a mistake and he should be forgiven. Apparently that's how morality works for these people, so if you'll excuse me I think I'll go commit some murders, robberies and maybe a little arson and then just apologize and do some Bible camp to make up for it.

Perhaps most horrifying, though, is the thought of how the girls in the Duggar family had to simply ignore the crimes committed against them, most likely being told that it was somehow their fault for being immodest. There are hints here and there of just how messed up things were in the Duggar household, such as this video of Josh Duggar making an incest joke several years after having actually sexually assaulted his own sisters:

And then there's this exchange, which comes from a recent Cosmopolitan interview with the Duggar girls in which the subject of kissing came up: