Catholic Bishops Go After Girl Scouts

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Not Satisfied With Attacking Nuns, Catholic Bishops Go After Girl Scouts
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/155711/not_satisfied_with_attacking_nuns%2C_catholic_bishops_go_after_girl_scouts/

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is having a Saturday Night Live moment. Emboldened by the Vatican's hostile takeover of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the gentlemen have shown their prowess by choosing to investigate the Girl Scouts of the USA. Which would be comical -- first the nuns, now the Girl Scouts -- if the goal were not so pernicious and the outcome so damaging, especially to the bishops.

The tactics against the girls and the women are taken from one playbook, the goal of intimidation is the same, and the pushback in both cases is distracting from more pressing problems at hand. Still, you wonder who does their public relations, as the bishops are now about as popular as a recession.

The apparent goal of this exercise of "investigating" gender female persons is to set up and enforce a male-defined model of girlhood/womanhood. A Vatican-, or in this case, USCCB-launched investigation is what Sister Sandra Schneiders, IHM, calls the equivalent of a grand jury investigation. There is the presumption that something is wrong, not something right, that there is guilt to be uncovered, not virtue to be unleashed. What is wrong seems to be women and girls thinking for themselves and acting for the common good....

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Not Satisfied With Attacking Nuns, Catholic Bishops Go After Girl Scouts
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/155711/not_satisfied_with_attacking_nuns%2C_catholic_bishops_go_after_girl_scouts/

[aquart]

1. Horny old lechers.

I assume they can no longer afford to "investigate" the boy scouts?

[HopeHoops]

7. Yeah, that OP line just did NOT sound right.

[russspeakeasy]

2. ....and Boy Scouts are relieved.

[truedelphi]

4. Best laugh of the week. n/t

[IndyJones]

3. How are they investigating? The Vatican has no authority to do anything but send them a

bunch of questions, which the GS can promptly burn or toss in the circular file.

[woodsprite]

5. My first thought upon reading the title, "Hope they use birth control!" n/t

[kestrel91316]

6. What authority does the Vatican have over the GSUSA??????????

(crickets chirping)

[mysuzuki2]

8. stories like this are the reaon I do not read the Onion any longer.

the real stories have become even more ridiculous than the parodies.

[glinda]

9. Girl Scouts, Nuns, birth control....

appears they hate or dislike women so much that it has become their only defense against their own corruption and scandals.

[pennylane100]

10. These people are nuts.

With the hundreds of horror stories about child abuse in the catholic church, they should not be even talking about children.

[polichick]

11. People should wake up and shun the bishops...

It's astonishing that anyone still looks to them for guidance.

[Fresh_Start]

12. good. maybe this will get some Dads on the right side

if the church is attacking daddy's little girls, even the clueless will begin to understand how this is in fact an attack on women

[Dawson Leery]

13. F**K the Vatican!

The Vatican has NO AUTHORITY OVER THE UNITED STATES! The Vatican is the INFERIOR of the United States Constitution!
UNDERSTAND!

[Raven]

14. I thought they only liked

little boys.

[yellowcanine]

15. It is about time someone took on the Gaia worshiping girl scouts!