Josh Duggar, Bill Gothard
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Things just keep getting worse for Bill Gothard. If you thought your 2014 and your 2015 were challenging, sorry, buddy, but this year’s going to be even more intense. On Wednesday, ten women filed suit against the Christian homeschooling leader — best known for his close ties to the puzzlingly still-famous Duggar clan — accusing him and other members of his organization with “sexual abuse, harassment and cover-up.”

Gothard is the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, an organization “established for the purpose of introducing people to the Lord Jesus Christ and dedicated to giving clear instruction and training on how to find success by following God’s principles found in Scripture” He’s also the founder of the Advanced Training Institute International home education program. As a bonus, he has been embroiled in controversy over sexual misconduct since at least the eighties, when Gothard’s brother Steve resigned from IBLP after allegations he’d had affairs with “several secretaries” at […]