"Pro-lesbian advocacy group"
I am sick and tired of ranting, right-wing extremists. They seem to be able to find something to criticize in everyone who doesn't conform to every point of their orthodoxy.
Believe it or not, this is not a rant about the Harriet Miers withdrawal, and the ensuing nomination of a right-wing, activist judge in her place. It's all about a fashion show.
A Catholic school was planning to do a fashion show/fundraiser, featuring American Girl apparel and dolls. fn1.
However, they've now cancelled it, in response to pressure from two far-right advocacy groups (the American Family Association, which sees the "gay agenda" in everything in America, and the Pro-Life Action League).
This is so stupid. Their whole problem is that American Girl supports Girls Inc., formerly known as Girls Clubs of America. This organization has been around for more than 140 years (but should not be confused with the Boys and Girls Club of America). So what's wrong with Girls Inc.? Well, apparently, they don't condemn girls who happen to be struggling with their sexuality. And they provide a full-featured sex ed, rather than some close-minded, celibacy only joke.
This, apparently, makes Girls Inc. "a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group," according to the AFA.
The moral of the story: if you don't brow-beat everyone with the political viewpoints that the AFA believes you should hold, you are a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group.
I just wish these far-right freaks would quit worrying about what everyone else is saying or doing and focus on their own lives, and they intolerance they are spreading.
1. I have never understood why people are so into the whole "American Girl" thing, which I find purely obnoxious. But I am neither a woman nor a child, putting me squarely outside the target market for this product, so don't take my word for it.
Believe it or not, this is not a rant about the Harriet Miers withdrawal, and the ensuing nomination of a right-wing, activist judge in her place. It's all about a fashion show.
A Catholic school was planning to do a fashion show/fundraiser, featuring American Girl apparel and dolls. fn1.
However, they've now cancelled it, in response to pressure from two far-right advocacy groups (the American Family Association, which sees the "gay agenda" in everything in America, and the Pro-Life Action League).
This is so stupid. Their whole problem is that American Girl supports Girls Inc., formerly known as Girls Clubs of America. This organization has been around for more than 140 years (but should not be confused with the Boys and Girls Club of America). So what's wrong with Girls Inc.? Well, apparently, they don't condemn girls who happen to be struggling with their sexuality. And they provide a full-featured sex ed, rather than some close-minded, celibacy only joke.
This, apparently, makes Girls Inc. "a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group," according to the AFA.
The moral of the story: if you don't brow-beat everyone with the political viewpoints that the AFA believes you should hold, you are a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group.
I just wish these far-right freaks would quit worrying about what everyone else is saying or doing and focus on their own lives, and they intolerance they are spreading.
1. I have never understood why people are so into the whole "American Girl" thing, which I find purely obnoxious. But I am neither a woman nor a child, putting me squarely outside the target market for this product, so don't take my word for it.
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