The right’s latest target: Girl Scout cookies

This article made me pretty mad. People are boycotting girl scout cookies because of "a tenuous tie to planned parenthood" and because a transgendered 7-year-old was accepted into a girl scout troop. I can't believe that people would actually attack girl scouts, out of all the possibilities. What's more innocent than groups of little girls going camping and selling cookies? I agreed one hundred percent with the article, although with issues like these, I doubt it will change the minds of anyone who agrees with the boycott. However, even if the writer of the article did not have obvious liberal views, she still had a few good points. Some parents pulled their children out of girl scouts, after the troops declared that they were against the decision to accept a transgender, because they did not make the announcement quickly or firmly enough. That's a bit of an overreaction, if you ask me. In addition, some of the things conservative critics are saying are blatant lies, like the assertion that some people make that girl scouts have been pro-choice for years. We're talking about little girls here! They do community service and charity work and learn how to make s'mores! Who on earth decided that we should start analyzing their political views and keeping our children safe from them? This whole issue is just another one of those ridiculous stories that I can't believe. It's hard enough for me to wrap my head around the amount of intolerance that still exists, but the fact that the hate has spread to girl scouts is just too much.

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