skydivexxl 0 #2 March 3, 2004 QuoteHere. or.... Some Texans Boycott Girl Scout Cookies Wed Mar 3, 2:21 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer CRAWFORD, Texas - 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 Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents.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. AP Photo Related Links • Girl Scout Group Severs Ties With Planned Parenthood After Boycott (LifeNews.com) • Program's advocates say boycotters have muddied waters (Waco Tribune) Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush (news - web sites) has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization? Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) 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?" 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 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." ___ Blog Clicky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benny 0 #3 March 3, 2004 If they're gonna teach those girls that they're in charge of their own bodies, well I just can't support that, I'm going to throw up my thin mints right now. Never go to a DZ strip show. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #4 March 3, 2004 Well, if the Boyscouts ban the homosexuals, the girlscouts have to take up the slack - right.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivexxl 0 #5 March 3, 2004 Crawford Texas.... Hmmmmm..... doesn't somebody have a ranch down there.... Oh wait, he spent all of August down there.... Dubya! My Man! Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!!! Blog Clicky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
misskriss 0 #6 March 3, 2004 Quote"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson. What a rockin sex life the Donaldsons must have.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DShiznit 0 #7 March 3, 2004 Great.... another article that shows the "bigotry" in Texas.... Right up there with the trailer park family on Cops, or that saw the UFO. Why does it have to always be the stupid shit that gives Texas a bad rap? btw - I ate a metric ton of Caramel Delites this year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #8 March 3, 2004 **RING** **RING** hello? Waco Girl Scout Council? I'd like to order ten CASES of girl scout cookies please. Thanks! *CLICK* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mfrese 0 #9 March 3, 2004 Quoteand a boy putting on a condom Must have been the "condom" part that embarassed them...maybe they're Catholic. Doctor I ain't gonna die, Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mfrese 0 #10 March 3, 2004 Actually, Texas still looks pretty normal next to California, podna...if we have a "most embarassing state" contest, we're gonna win hands down.Doctor I ain't gonna die, Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stuffit 0 #11 March 3, 2004 QuoteActually, Texas still looks pretty normal next to California, podna...if we have a "most embarassing state" contest, we're gonna win hands down. Fuck that. Utah will always win no matter what. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #12 March 4, 2004 Noone has mentioned Alabama "Don't! Get! Eliminated!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #13 March 4, 2004 QuoteQuoteand a boy putting on a condom Must have been the "condom" part that embarassed them...maybe they're Catholic. grrrrr.... j/k. ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #14 March 4, 2004 QuoteQuote"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson. What a rockin sex life the Donaldsons must have.. "No sir! Of course not! I've never seen his 'thingy'!!!" ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stuffit 0 #15 March 4, 2004 QuoteQuoteQuote"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson. What a rockin sex life the Donaldsons must have.. "No sir! Of course not! I've never seen his 'thingy'!!!" Those are the people that only have sex with the lights off and for no reason anytime during sex will they under no circumstances make eye contact. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
