Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, are facing the heat after deleting same-sex couples from their Facebook challenge, during which they asked happily married fans to submit photos of themselves.
image via Facebook from Duggar Family
“God designed marriage to be a loving, dynamic relationship between a husband and wife for a lifetime. God loves marriage and it is supposed to be full of love, joy, fun and romance. Marriage is where romance belongs!” they wrote on their Facebook page, adding their newlywed daughter Jessa and her husband Ben Seawald “received some criticism” for posting a photo of themselves kissing.
They then challenged “all married couples to take a happily married picture and post it here."
However, Extra reports John Becker has come forward to claim his submission was deleted from the page.
“Oh no, I think I've been banned from the Duggar Family Official Facebook page! (I'm crying into my coffee cup right now, I assure you),” he wrote on his blog. “I posted this photo of Michael and me with the following comment: 'Happily married for nearly nine years; working hard for #MarriageEquality for all loving couples.'"
He added the photo was not only pulled down, but he was also blocked from “ posting, liking, or commenting on the page altogether.”