Jim Bob Duggar is defending his family in the wake of a petition circulating to cancel TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting by LGBT supporters.
The Change.org petition was started after the Duggar family went against an LGBT ordinance in their Arkansas city and they blocked same-sex couples from a kissing challenge they did on Facebook.
During a recent speech at Booster Banquet at Hannibal-LaGrange University, Jim Bob said the petition has only raised their profile.
“They won’t succeed. Our show is the number one show on TLC,” he said. “We love everybody. It’s a small group creating this fuss. All it has done is give us more exposure. We’ve gained 50,000 Facebook fans last week. God is expanding our borders through the national media.”
The petition, created by the Learning Channel and called “End LGBTQ fear mongering by the Duggars,” currently has almost 183,000 signatures.
"We love everybody, but we don’t always agree with them," Jim Bob also said.