"19 Kids and Counting" stars Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar are being criticized for deleting a picture of a same-sex couple off of their family's Facebook page.
In response to the criticism newlyweds Jessa Duggar and husband Ben Seewald received for sharing a picture of them in a passionate lip-locking session, Michelle and Jim Bob posted a similar photo of themselves sharing a passionate kiss.
The couple also challenged other married couples to share similar snapshots of moments shared with their spouses.
"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!" the official Duggar family page wrote in a post.
Adding: "Recently, Ben & Jessa [Duggar] received some criticism for posting a kissing picture. We are so grateful they waited to share their first kiss until after marriage. We've been married 30 years and are still in love! We had fun trying to duplicate Ben and Jessa's happily married kissing picture. We challenge all married couples to take a happily married picture and post it here."
However, the highly religious couple were allegedly not very accepting when a same-sex couple posted their own picture in response to the challenge.
Facebook user John Becker, who runs the LGBTQ blog The Bilerico Project, posted a picture of himself kissing his husband, Michael A. Knaapen. Becker claims that the Duggars deleted his picture and blocked him from posting comments or pictures on their page in the future.
He wrote on his Facebook 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). 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. And we will win, because #LoveIsLove! #LibertyAndJusticeForAll."
"It was getting lots of likes, but the Duggars must not have liked it very much - they pulled it down and blocked me from posting, liking, or commenting on the page altogether. How sad that they feel so threatened by other loving marriages!"
