Posted on 10/27/2005 4:19:00 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie
Thank you for the fax # - my letter is sending now.
I got your full text and the photo - - and its all introduced by some of my own thoughts.
fax away folks:
Fax: 608-828-4790
American Girl issues it new "Aborted Baby" doll, the perfect addition to any of its grotesquely over-priced doll collections.
This anatomically correct aborable piece of faux non-viable tissue shows how a baby looks after being treated at the abortion clinic butcher shops that the American Girl company supports.
I could not agree with you more. Lots of money and what money can buy doesn't make any individuals happy and it doesn't make for happy family life. Solid marriages and family members truly caring about each other and spending time together is what makes people happy. (Leaving aside the transcendent...)
I don't know if you are old enough to remember billboards saying "Families who pray together stay together". I remember them.
Donations raised through I CAN support three distinct programs offered by KKK Inc., our 2005 benefit partner. One builds skills in math and science (Operation SMART®), another develops leadership skills (Discovery Leadership®), and a third encourages athletic skills and a collaborative spirit (Sporting Chance®).
New slogan: "I CAN kill my baby!"
Doesn't seem appropriate for a company that sells baby dolls, does it?
We have to spread the "American Girl aborted baby doll" (or "I CAN abort my baby!" doll) around the internet.
Feminism is more deeply evil than many people realize. They think it's about equal wages or something. Men and women have been paid equal wages if they do the same work for generations.
It's about lesbianism, man hating, abortion, free sex for younger and younger children/adolescents, the entire leftist agenda. It's like the evil twin of the homosexual agenda. In fact the primary feminists were mostly all socialists/communists and homosexual as well. Filled with hatred of men, and the natural order created by God, they have wrought great destruction.
Men and women are different, have different physical bodies and psychologies, and are created to complement one another. The souls are all equal, and if we see each other as eternal souls, belonging to God, then there is no "exploitation" - only cooperation.
I loathe feminism from the core of my being. I saw it in the beginning, and it is a lie that the womens' movement got "hijacked" by radical lebsians. It's been that way from teh start.
http://www.girlsinc.org/ic/content/lesbianbisexualgirls.pdf
You know, if you support a group that supports *you*, then you have taken a stance on the issues, duh!!
American Girl's gifts to agency lead school to scrap show
Backing of lesbianism, abortion sets off storm
By TOM HEINEN
theinen@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Oct. 29, 2005
A Catholic school in Waukesha County is the first non-profit group in the nation to cancel a coveted American Girl Fashion Show amid concerns that the Wisconsin-based doll company behind the show gives money to a national girls organization that presents abortion, contraception and a lesbian sexual orientation as acceptable.
News of the decision by parent volunteers and the pastor at St. Luke School in Brookfield is being reported in bulletins at Masses this weekend.
"It seemed like a match made in heaven; a motivated Catholic school and an all-American icon," Father Frank Malloy, the pastor, says in his printed explanation. "We seemed poised to raise enough funds for a new playground and a remake of the school library."
But, he concludes, "As for us, it's a bargain we'll just have to pass up. The cost is too high. Our integrity isn't for sale."
Only 60 to 65 American Girl Fashion Shows are held nationwide each year, and no other groups have canceled because of this issue, according to Julie Parks, spokeswoman of the Middleton-based company.
The fashion shows include the firm's popular historic dolls being carried by girls who resemble the dolls and dress in the same outfits.
The parish had scheduled five showings May 19 to 21 at the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha.
Organizers had planned to mail invitations to more than 20,000 American Girl doll owners in a wide region. They had hoped to raise at least $10,000 - and perhaps $30,000 or more - through ticket and raffle sales, business sponsorships, and a percentage of sales of American Girl's dolls, books, clothes and other products, said the event's co-chairwomen, Marisa Beffel of Brookfield and Catherine Valentyn of the town of Brookfield.
Beffel, who had originally proposed the fashion show, searched the Internet for details last weekend after word of the company's donations spread. Valentyn, who did the same, said it was a clear, but not easy, decision.
"It wasn't just the money," said Valentyn, president of the home and school association. "It was hard to give up the thought of a really great day for mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and the really great products that American Girl has, these dolls with the historic texts that come with them. But it just felt wrong. We know what the Catholic Church stands for, and we, in essence, represent them."
The parish decision to forgo that and to put a $1,000 deposit with American Girl at risk is one of the latest results of a protest that two national groups - the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. - mounted this month against American Girl and its parent company, Mattel Inc. The league is threatening to call for a boycott of American Girl products if it does not halt the donations by Tuesday.
The spark that set them off was an "I Can" program the doll and clothing company launched Sept. 19 to encourage girls to follow their dreams and to raise money for Girls Inc.
Formerly known for decades as the Girls Clubs of America, Girls Inc. has more than 1,500 centers across the country. Most serve minorities in low-income neighborhoods.
On its Web site and at the centers, it offers a wide range of programs, resources and advocacy positions to help educate and encourage girls in everything from science and athletics to health and sexuality. That includes support of abortion and contraception along with sexual abstinence as acceptable choices for girls. It also includes affirmation of lesbian sexual orientations.
Joyce M. Roché, president and chief executive officer of Girls Inc., was traveling and not available for comment.
American Girl is encouraging girls to sign an "I Can" pledge and to spend $1 for a band that features the firm's signature, berry-colored star and can be used as a wristband, a ponytail holder, a zipper pull, or for other purposes. The pledge is a promise to "be myself," "always do my best," "reach for the stars," "lend a hand to others" and "to try."
Saying Girls Inc. "has helped millions of girls realize their potential," American Girl is donating $50,000, plus 70 cents from each band sale to support Girls Inc. educational programs.
American Girl is holding to its statement that Girls Inc. is one of hundreds of non-profit organizations the firm supports, and that the Girls Inc. donations support three programs that have not been criticized.
"We are profoundly disappointed that certain groups have chosen to misconstrue American Girl's purely altruistic efforts and turn them into a broader political statement on issues that we, as a corporation, have no position," the statement says. "The American Girl brand exemplifies the values of wholesomeness and responsibility that we would expect any organization to commend."
That did not appease Valentyn and Beffel, who thought that some of the content on the Girls Inc. Web site was politicized, inappropriate for girls 12 and younger, and contrary to Catholic teachings.
"I think a lot of moms feel betrayed by the company," Beffel said.
Thanks. I love it when Catholics act like Catholics. I think I need to post this story on the religion forum. Great news.
How about you stick to selling dolls and leave the encouraging to the parents?
While I'm not Catholic - I am VERY happy to see this parish stand up and do the right thing! Thank goodnes there are still churches that will not "sacrifice the permanent on the alter of the immediate" !
I'm sure those fashion shows (while providing needed funds for the "fundraisers") also provide INCREDIBLE profits for the company!
We only had two boys - and my only niece was never into American Girl - sheesh ... when this story broke my eye's popped out at the cost.. of course then I started looking around at prices and I realized that apparently there's a HUGE market in dolls out there... whoda thunk it?
Sent to:
Mattel Chairman Bob Eckert - Jules.Andres@mattel.com
American Girl President Ellen Brothers - ellen.brothers@americangirl.com
Public Relations Susan Jevens - susan.jevens@americangirl.com
Subject Line: Girls Inc. support and ultimate loss of business
Dear Mr. or Mz xxx,
How did your company make such a gross business miscalculation? I’m sure you’ll stand your ground and make public statements to the effect it has not had a negative impact on your business. But it will. You know it will take some time to show up in your bottom line.
Actually I’d like to thank you for your side by side stand with Girls Inc. It has allowed me to reopen a dialogue with my three daughters. Each daughter has several of your dolls.
They have all three decided to ceremoniously throw them away. Not sell, them … not give them away … but to destroy them.
Here are the demographics.
Daughter #1 – Honor student (freshman) at xxx University studying to be an elementary teacher.
Daughter #2 – National Merit Scholar and a senior in High School. Being courted by Ivy League Universities.
Daughter #3 – Freshman in high school and right on their heels academically.
They all three find your monetary and public support of abortion and lesbian sexual orientation as unacceptable. They feel you are now directly responsible for great harm to females in general.
Enough said. Look for your products in trash cans throughout the United States and elsewhere. What an INCREDIBLE blunder on your part. Whoever made this marketing decision needs to be canned. Your company will suffer because of it.
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