Posted on 02/23/2014 5:11:01 AM PST by logi_cal869
There is now little doubt that the Girl Scout cookie boycott is having an effect on cookie sales this year.
Girl Scout spokesman Kelly Parisi went on The O’Reilly Factor this week to try and defuse the mounting controversy, and Girl Scout executives have sent threatening letters to their critics.
Girl Scout CEO Anna Marie Chavez took to YouTube on Thursday to deny all charges leveled by the boycotters and to deny at least one charge they haven’t even made.
“Recently, various individuals and organizations announced their intention to boycott GS cookies this year, based on mistaken beliefs about our movement," Chavez said. "These same individuals also believe the Girl Scouts has become too political.”
“We do not now, nor have we ever, had a relationship with Planned Parenthood," she claimed. "Girl Scouts of the USA believes that reproductive issues are deeply private issues best left to families. I find it unsettling that anyone would use the Girl Scout brand to have very adult conversations. A box of Girl Scout cookies is not a political statement.”
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She has to protect her salary.
I won’t be helping. She should take her troop to any number of Hsnell clinics to have “clean the abortion clinic” days.
Wonder if they’d agree that the number of guns safely kept in my house is also a deeply private family matter?
I stopped buying the cookies many years ago, for for a different - financial - reason. They were a ripoff. A 12-cookie box for a 60-cookie price.
Rule #1-
Deny, deny, Deny, deny, Deny, deny, Deny, deny, .....
Rule #2-
See rule #1
I haven’t bought any from them for years also. IIRC, I saw evidence that the corporate leaders were leftists, and I shut them off. But I’ve forgotten the details.
(June 2013)
The cookie is crumbling: Girl Scouts face financial troubles, declining membership
The Girl Scouts of the USA are struggling to deal with fiscal woes, falling membership rates, a $347 million deficit, and tensions at headquarters.
Meanwhile, the new national spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts, Kelly Parisi, is the former spokeswoman for a pro-abortion organization — one founded by Gloria Steinem.
The Girl Scouts have been criticized for their involvement in the May, 2013 Women Deliver Conference, an international event that included “safe and legal abortion” among its overarching themes. It documents its role in the planning and facilitating of the December, 2012 Bali Global Youth Forum and the outcome declaration, which demands youth access to abortion.
The ties between the two groups have been questioned ever since former Girl Scouts CEO Kathy Cloninger admitted on NBC’s The Today Show: “We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with…Planned Parenthood organizations across the country.” See the video here.
Then, in a national survey, seventeen Girl Scouts councils admit to partnering with Planned Parenthood; many other councils refuse to answer the survey question. Of the 315 Girl Scout councils in the U.S., 17 councils reported having a relationship with Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, and 49 reported they do not. The other 249 refused to disclose any relationship.
In 2010-2011 Girls Scouts in New York partnered with Planned Parenthood for a sex-ed program, “Real Life. Real Talk.” The program website touts their partners: “Real Life. Real Talk. is proud to count the following organizations, faith communities and companies as partners: …Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways.”
For fourteen years, the Girls Scouts in Waco, TX co-sponsored a sex ed conference with Planned Parenthood. “It’s Perfectly Normal” a book written by a Planned Parenthood executive was given to all children in attendance says abortion can be “a positive experience.” And in January 2012, Girl Scouts employee Renise Rodriguez wore a “Pray to End Abortion” t-shirt during off-duty visit to her Tucson Girl Scout office and was ordered to her to turn the shirt inside out or leave.
She's lying of course. The reason we pulled our girls out of GSA is that they explicitly told us of their intentions to broach exactly such reproductive topics.
Maybe another way to look at it, is that they think they are one big family so of course they discuss such things there. It’s only the connection to the “BRAND” they are complaining about. Slyly selective and a way to mislead with technical truths.
And it would be interesting to see her squirm if we can show communications of this kind under their letterhead.
“Ma’am, you are going to need to work on that merit badge in artful lying again.”
Is there a girl version of the new Trail Scouts?
We reject what you are doing to our daughters, Ms. Chavez (whether you deny it or not) and we are voting with our wallets accordingly. Deal with it.
There are other girl organizations out there, I don’t remember them at the top of my head
Of course they do. Anything they can do to establish a hierarchy outside the family to which the parents of the target cherubs respond, fits the agenda of establishing state authority adverse to parental intent.
State, or “world.”
My wife just pointed out that we buy cookies that are way overpriced when we can buy the same cookies in the store. Then they get political and lie about it. She also pointed out that at the store this past Sunday lots of people were saying “no thanks”.
I wonder if they’re actually explaining to these little girls what an abortion is.
I’d wager than a lot of the mothers have no idea who Wendy Davis is. And that’s really sad because it also means they know little about the organization of which they’re members.
I read that article and I am surprised that there is quite a career that can be had working for the Girl Scouts. They have a pension program in the red to the tune of $347 million because they added people to the plan who haven’t paid in. And they want my cookie money?
Maybe they can sell some cookies to Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, and Michelle Obama. All three of those clowns like cookies AND abortion.
It is more than just Planned Parenthood. These are not your Mother’s Girls Scouts.
On the local level, they may be fine. But the national office is a lost cause.
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