Cookies of Morality

Where parents of some wacko -- I mean Waco -- area Girl Scouts prove that they can be just as uptight, homophobic, and rabidly anti-sex as the best of 'em. Some Texans Boycott GS Cookies (Side note: is it any surprise that this is happening in the home town of the former Governor of Texas?)

Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.

Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core porn.

"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.

Oh, baby! I bet this one's an absolute firecracker in the bedroom! What an amazing sex life her and her husband must have! ~sigh~ Will someone please pass this woman a nice vibrator before she explodes.

"Our girls have been through a lot these past three weeks," said Jennifer Smith, who quit as leader of Girl Scout Troop 7527 and removed her daughter. "After I told my 10-year-old daughter that they are supporting some things that are not morally right, she understood."

And like a good Christian family, there was no discussion regarding what those "things" are or why they would be considered immoral. No discussion. No intelligent exchange of ideas. Just dogma. Abortion: immoral. Masturbation: immoral. Contraception: immoral. Education: immoral.