In fact, everyone is vile.
I hate everyone.
Posted on 03/04/2004 3:19:12 AM PST by garylmoore
CRAWFORD, Texas (March 3) - Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.
A Christian radio station in Waco aired ads for two weeks urging folks to boycott Girl Scout cookies. (Rod Aydelotte, Waco Tribune Herald/AP)
Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization?
Planned Parenthood and sex education.
The furor was started a few weeks ago by the leader of the anti-abortion group Pro-Life Waco, who sent out e-mails and ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because of the "cozy relationship" between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood.
Parents were upset to learn that the local Girl Scout organization had given a "woman of distinction award" last year to a Planned Parenthood executive. And they were disturbed to find out that the Girl Scout organization has been giving its endorsement for years to a Planned Parenthood sex-ed program in which girls and boys are given literature on homosexuality, masturbation and condoms.
"It's not that we're a bunch of activists. We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids," said Lisa Aguilar, who took her 10-year-old daughter out of her eight-member Girl Scout troop. "For us, it's the morality. Where is Girl Scouts going?"
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The two troops in Crawford, population 700, decided not to deliver the cookie orders that they had already taken.
But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.
"People thought the boycott was ridiculous and was one man's extremist views," Parker said.
While the cookie boycott may have backfired, the furor prompted the parent leaders of the two Crawford troops to quit.
"You're telling these girls to raise their fingers up to pledge to honor God and country, and yet you're handing out materials saying homosexuality is OK," said Brownie leader Donna Coody, who disbanded her five-member troop.
Because of the uproar, the Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts, which oversees troops in the Waco area and 13 other counties, announced last week that it would not be affiliated with Planned Parenthood sex-education programs this year.
In an editorial in Friday's Waco Tribune-Herald, Pam Smallwood, the Planned Parenthood of Central Texas executive director who was honored by the Girl Scouts last year, complained that Girl Scouts had thereby demonstrated that "bullying tactics are more effective than an informed democracy."
The Waco-area Girl Scout organization has been putting its name and logo on brochures for the Planned Parenthood sex-education programs but said it does not contribute any money and does not send girls to attend.
Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.
Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core porn.
"It's not that we're a bunch of activists. We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids." -Lisa Aguilar, mother who took her daughter out of her Girl Scout troop
"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.
Pro-Life Waco director John Pisciotta, an economics professor at Baylor, the world's largest Baptist university, said his call for a cookie boycott "was a way to bring attention to the issue and wasn't really about cookies."
The Girl Scouts national organization, which is based in New York and has 2.9 million girl members and 986,000 adult members, takes no position on sex education or abortion and has no national relationship with Planned Parenthood, according to the Bluebonnet Council.
The Crawford mothers are forming their own girls organization and will use a Christian-based curriculum. Beth Vivio, director of the Bluebonnett Council, declined to say if parents in any other troops had taken their daughters out.
Some parents decided to explain abortion to their girls. Others gave only a vague explanation about the uproar.
"Our girls have been through a lot these past three weeks," said Jennifer Smith, who quit as leader of Girl Scout Troop 7527 and removed her daughter. "After I told my 10-year-old daughter that they are supporting some things that are not morally right, she understood."
In fact, everyone is vile.
I hate everyone.
I always had a suspicion that they were actually the Shock Troops for the New World Order. There's a disturbing "Village of the Damned" vibe you get when you look at a platoon of them. They get inside your head because they've been supplied by George Soros with the frequencies for the NSA implants, and they make you do Communistic things. Sometimes they make you post on Free Trade or Evolution threads, even though your conscious mind is screaming at you about how insane it is to do that.
You will note the conspicuous absence of girl scouts in every major war and assassination of this century. Random chance? I think not!
This materiel is not fit for a 10 yr old to see. I heard the news this morning, and the ACLU is very mad at the parents who took their girls out of the Girl Scouts.
You will note the conspicuous absence of girl scouts in every major war and assassination of this century. Random chance? I think not!
...does your record player run in reverse?.../s :))
Giving children pornography is illegal....
and it's a REPUBLIC, you stupid bi+ch!
I smashed my record player after I learned that they all phonographic devices have a hidden circuit designed by the CIA that emits a subsonic signal that manipulates your brain waves to buy whatever product they want. I figured this out after I realized that only Mind Control technology could explain the popularity of Rap.
Funny, I would have said this event is a very good example of an informed democracy. Parents had the opportunity to learn about the affiliation, the materials distributed, etc. Then they had the opportunity to take the action they felt appropriate: removing their daughters from the group, declining to purchase cookies, etc. I'd say it was a combination of information distribution and democracy in action. The problem, it would seem, is when the "informed democracy" takes an approach with which this person doesn't agree. Or is the real problem that the parents were the ones "informed," rather than letting the know-it-all's at Planned Parenthood handle these issues for the children in this area?
Would you please purchase another record player? The one that we wired appears to not be functioning any more. We have noticed that our coverage of your residence is suffering because of it. The video and audio recording devices emplaced in your toothbrush, toilet seat, refrigerator, car steering wheel, and light fixtures aren't giving us the reception that we have grown to expect while monitoring your every waking hour and has resulted in there being locations in your home in which our subsonic signal is unable to reach.
Thank you for your understanding in this matter. We sincerely hope that this can be resolved so we don't have to send our agents over to visit you.
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Bingo!
Liberals feel justified attempting to control EVERY aspect of EVERYONE'S life because their opinion is the ONLY right one.
If you stand up to them and disagree, they almost have a seizure!
Liberalism IS a mental illness.
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