Here’s more proof we live in a crazy, mixed-up world: Some
anti-abortion groups are calling for a “cookie-cott” of Girl Scout
cookies not because they are
duplicitously filled with decadent and depraved trans
fat but because they are part of a wicked baby-killing
agenda.
In 2012, reports Politico, the Family Research Council
“urged its 455,000 followers to pray that cookie sales would
lag so that the Girl Scouts would break off their alleged
relationship with Planned Parenthood.”
This year, Pro-Life Waco and Pro-Life Wisconsin are
leading the charge against Thin Mints, Thank You Berry Muches,
delicous Samoas (known as Caramel deLites west of the Mississippi
and north of Carcosa), and
all other varieties.
Dubbing their effort “cookie-cott,” abortion opponents have been
urging allies to refuse to purchase cookies from any girl scout
this year to show their opposition to what they perceive as the
Girl Scouts’ increasing support of people and advocacy groups with
ties, however tendentious, to abortion.The most recent in a long line of perceived offenses, and the
one that spurred the latest cookie boycott, was the organization’s
alleged endorsement of Texas state senator Wendy Davis, who last
June famously filibustered the state’s new law that will close most
of the abortion providers in Texas. The Girl Scouts’ Twitter
account tweeted a
link to a Huffington Post Live segment discussing potential
candidates for woman of the year for 2013. Texas Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis was mentioned as a contender,
as were singer Beyonce, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and
even “the brave women on social media.”
So is that box of Savannah Smiles
(blech) a political statement of any sort? Not to the Girl Scouts,
at least:
“To quote the Girl Scout promise, we are committed to serving
God and our country and to helping others at all time,” states Ana
Maria Chavez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA in
a recent video response to the religious right’s
allegations. “We do not now, nor have we ever had a relationship
with Planned Parenthood. Girl Scouts of the USA believes that
reproductive issues are deeply private matters best left to
families. I find it unsettling that anyone would use the Girl Scout
brand to have very adult conversations. A box of cookies is not a
political statement. It is an investment in a girl and her
dreams.”
More on Girls Scouts and odd bedfellows from
Snopes.
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