A tasty way to fight the religious right!

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Fight Back Against Religious Right; Buy Girl Scout Cookies
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Submitted by AUSCS on Mar 12, 2012
By Rob Boston

I was doing some grocery shopping this weekend, and as I left the store I was persuaded to make one last purchase. Outside were several Girl Scouts sitting at a table surrounded by boxes of cookies. I immediately reached for my wallet.

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But now there’s an added bonus to buying the cookies: You get to annoy the Religious Right.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, so it’s an especially meaningful time for the organization, its leaders and members. Unfortunately, the anniversary has also sparked a raft of new attacks on the venerable group by Religious Right cranks. The Girls Scouts, you see, are accused of promoting feminism, abortion and godlessness.

This is nothing new. Back in 1994, Focus on the Family blasted the Girl Scouts after the group made a religious oath optional for membership. FOF founder James Dobson asserted that the Girl Scouts had “lost their way” and accused the group of “pushing a philosophy – a philosophy that includes humanism and radical feminism.”

Seven years after that, FOF’s Citizen magazine reprinted a hatchet job on the Girl Scouts that had originally run in the National Review. The article concluded ominously, “There are currently 2.7 million Girl Scouts in the U.S. That’s a lot of liberal feminists to look forward to.”

[Luminous Animal]

1. +1 As an act of protest against the christian right, this is the 1st year I've ever

bought Girl Scout cookies. I bought 5 boxes. They're pretty good.

[Louisiana1976]

2. The Thin Mints are addictive.

[HillWilliam]

4. Emptied my pocket

to buy two boxes of thin mints. Those are so totally addictive.

[LadyHawkAZ]

9. Mmmmm, Crack Mints!

I bought 5 boxes and stuck them in my freezer.

[Lebam in LA]

3. I bought 10 boxes

Told them 5 were for me and 5 were to stick it to their enemies.

[alittlelark]

5. mmmmmm... Samoas.....

[MarianJack]

6. Tagalongs for me!

Yumski!

PEACE!

[burrowowl]

7. Yesterday they were outside the grocery store

bought some shortbread cookies, I love shortbread and Girl Scouts!

[Populist_Prole]

8. Funny you mentioned that. They were outside the store last week, and I gladly bought some

Two young girls and their mothers, all very polite and gave everyone who bought some a hand-written thank-you card. I knew the wingnuts were on an anti-GS program and so I bought some thin mints to show some anti-wingnut solidarity of my own. Love the cookies but eat sweets very rarely in deference to my diet, and so I'm bringing some into work for others to enjoy.

About a year ago, some "patriot" group was outside the same store selling US flags and such, and the all too corporate robot looking person manning the table asked me if I "would like to help support the troops in the mideast". I said I did, that that the best way was to "get them the hell out of there and back home".

[lonestarnot]

10. Why did girl scouts give an award to Jan Brewer?

I won't be buying or eating of their shitty fucking cookies.

[COLGATE4]

11. I just bought 10 boxes just to piss them off! nt