"I encourage you to join me in abstaining from Girl Scout cookies,"

[donsu]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2413650

Girl Scout cookie boycott urged
Anti-abortion group says Scouts support Planned Parenthood

People in Waco were more than a bit taken aback after turning on a Christian radio station and hearing a community leader call for a boycott of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites.

"I encourage you to join me in abstaining from Girl Scout cookies," John Pisciotta, director of Pro-Life Waco and an associate professor of economics at Baylor University, has been saying for two weeks in public-service announcements running around the clock on KBDE/89.9.

Pisciotta then says the Waco-based Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts supports Planned Parenthood's annual sex education seminars.

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Pisciotta said: "I don't take pleasure in upsetting families and upsetting little girls. That is a downside of this. But it did get the conversation going."
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the article also said the controversy made for better sales of cookies in Waco.

Pisciotta should mind his own business. women's bodies is none of his business.

he's giving Baylor a bad rep

[sadiesworld]

1. Uh oh, now I have to buy LOTS of girl scout cookies.

[LifeDuringWartime]

36. ive got six boxes on order

i forget which kinds, but they wont last long ;)

[thebaghwan]

2. Yes, there goes the diet!!

n/t

[Eurobabe]

3. this message contains something subliminable

i instinctively reached behind my laptop screen and grabbed the thin mints. :)

[hang a left]

6. The peanut butter are the absolute best

must.....find.....girlscout

[Wickerman]

7. I ordered 4 boxes of Samoas

my fave.

We sold 144 boxes for/with my daughter. Take that, radical right.

[brainwashed_youth]

14. fuck that

that thin mint is absolute best goddamn cookie ever!!!

[mitchtv]

4. tha GSA are also supporting the grocery workers strike

kind of anyway, by not selling in front of locked out and struck chains.

[Deja Q]

5. Cool!

I bought several boxes when they started peddling. YES!

[proud patriot]

8. Girl Power

:loveya:

[Mari333]

9. Ill buy tons of them and send them to my stepsons unit in Iraq

and I mean TONS...just the kind that dont melt in 120 degree heat...Ill keep the chocolate ones for myself..and save a few boxes for him when he comes home..he loves the chocolate mint.

[meow mix]

10. im suddenly ravenous for some thin-mints

i need some badly! gotta find a scout..

[philosophie_en_rose]

11. Girl Power!

I love the girl scouts. My nieces are in the Girl Scouts and they are involved in all sorts of positive activities. The Girl Scouts actually respect diversity and don't force girls to be different than they are.

Not to mention that Girl Scouts are a quality product. They are excellent when frozen.

I usually don't like it when children are forced to compete with each other and sell things. They shouldn't have to do that. However, my neices' troop is doing it as a team and is learning valuable skills about safety, marketing, and teamwork.

[ninkasi]

12. I bought 10 boxes

and that was before I knew about this ridiculous boycott. My whole family has been buying lots of them; I have a 10 year old granddaughter in Girl Scouts, and she has a very big family. Wonder if there's still time to order more?

[democratreformed]

25. Most troops usually have left-overs.

At least they did when my daughter was in GS. Eight boxes for me, btw.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Looks like I'll double my cookie order this year !!

If I can.

"Girl Scouts Wear Green Berets"

:kick:

[The Traveler]

15. thin mints ... yummm .... thin mints ....

... and now overindulging has become a moral imperative ....yummm ... thanks, John Pisciotta .,,

[Blue_Roses]

16. bought my 2 boxes

last night and I'm looking for more

[cally]

17. The Girl Scouts' chapters on sexuality

and equality are great. GS are very progressive. Much different than BS on gay rights.

Now, I have to find some cookies.

[ldoolin]

18. Yep, I already...

...loaded up on Girl Scout Cookies this year because of the religious-reich boycott.

I'm almost out so it's time to buy some more :)

[arewethereyet]

19. damn, and my girl's drive just ended !

timing is everything !

[LiberalFighter]

20. John Pisciotta, associate professor of economics at Baylor University

This guy needs to be boycotted.. and ostracized.

His classes need to be boycotted. Both by having students not attending and with pickets.

His picture needs to be publicized so that businesses that support the Girl Scouts will not serve him.

[donsu]

21. Agree big time

where are the Baylor people?

[GOPisEvil]

38. Most of the Baylor people probably agree with this guy.

It IS a Southern Baptist university after all. I mean, they didn't allow dancing on campus until the late 1980's.

[lapislzi]

22. My little activist will be ringing doorbells

while wearing her "ABB" button.

Girl Scouts rock!

[truthbetold]

23. Heck...

Where are those Girl Scouts? I'll buy a dozen boxes!
:evilgrin:

[eissa]

24. Damn it!

I ignored the girls selling outside our local market -- tyring to stay on yet another diet -- now I have to go back and buy some!

[devinsgram]

26. I usually don't buy many,

but now I plan to buy as many as I can. My grandaughter sell thems and I bought some, maybe she'll have extra.

[stanwyck]

27. Boy, did I pick the wrong time

to go on the South Beach diet. No sugar for two weeks! Oh, well, those cookies freeze really well. Sign me up for 12 boxes.

[loudsue]

28. How can we send boxes of cookies to our troops???

I think it would lift their spirits, and it would sure help to trash the boycott!

If someone knowledgeable could help get this organized, I'd sure contribute to a "cookies from home" campaign. Name me one soldier in Iraq who doesn't associate Girl Scout Cookies with basic American grass-roots home-grown love!

Boycotting Girl Scout Cookies is so far over the top, I sure hope fundie mamas start opening their eyes over this one.

:kick::kick::kick::kick:

[Andy_Stephenson]

30. I'm in for 4 boxes for the troops....

it's a cookie campaign.

[damnyankee2601]

31. Brilliant! nt

[damnyankee2601]

29. Too twisted.

Boycott the Girl Scouts because they teach little girls to be indepentdent with their bodies. Support the Boy scouts because they are anti-gay.

Another closet misogynist outs himself.

[Pale_Rider]

32. Well I feel better ...

... now that I have to deliver several orders of cookies that my daughters sold.

[skippysmom]

33. Oh, darn

guess I'll have to buy some after all. Diet be damned!

[Brian Sweat]

34. mmmm, Thin Mints.

I'll have to buy an extra box this year in honor of the Wacko from Waco.

[mcar]

35. Goody, more thin mints for me!

n/t

[RebelOne]

37. Yes, yes, buy lots of Girl Scout cookies and if you live in So. Florida,

buy them from my daughter. She usually has about 600 boxes sitting in her living room.