IN PHOTO: Josh Duggar, Executive Director of the Family Research Council Action, speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa August 9, 2014.
IN PHOTO: Josh Duggar, Executive Director of the Family Research Council Action, speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa August 9, 2014. The pro-family Iowa organization is hosting the event in conjunction with national partners Family Research Council Action and Citizens United. REUTERS/Brian Frank

Jessa Duggar’s new father-in-law would not further implicate Josh on his current molestation scandal him. Instead, Michael Seewald chooses to stand by Josh even though he said the shame he must now be feeling is “legitimate.”

The Seewald family, as proclaimed by Michael Seewald, gives their support to Josh Duggar. On his personal blog, Ben Seewald’s dad wrote that they are praying and thinking of the “unnamed” victims, and that Josh should indeed, feel the shame of what he has done. However, the family is still supporting Josh on his journey towards change and repentance. "I want to say to Josh, hang in there, the shame you feel is legitimate, yet Jesus took your shame as he was punished in your place…Don’t be angry at the world for their hatred of you. Show them through your love for them that it is Jesus Christ that made all the difference in your life,” he wrote. He added that he is rooting for Josh.

Last week, In Touch magazine has revealed to the world that the eldest Duggar has been investigated for five cases of molestation of minors back in 2006. This caused many fans of his family’s reality show, “19 Kids and Counting,” to react in frenzy. The show is widely known for its extreme religious beliefs, and for such a scandal to emerge was deemed by many as unacceptable.

For Michael Sewald however, the media was just too keen to uncover a scandal of the family. For him, Josh already painfully regretted and repented for all these “sins.” He said he feels bad that the Duggars and all the others involved to “relive the nightmare” again with the cases going public. He added that he would not have written about the issue on his personal blog because what it would only do is to “dredge up past sins,” but he felt the need to provide context and reason to what is happening, especially the frenzy surrounding the Duggars and their reality show. He added that he felt it necessary to help the Duggars on this trying period.

With the scandal, the fate of the long-running show, TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" is currently hanging in balance amid calls for its cancellation.

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