Dear Representative Morris -It's time to point them out, to call them out for the idiots and the bigots and the intolerant prudes they really are, but most of all it is time and past time to call them out for the factual inaccuracies on which they operate.
So, you 'did a little research on the internet'? Apparently, you did not do enough, not nearly enough.
HOW DUMB ARE YOU?
HOW INCOMPETENT ARE YOU?
YOU, SIR, SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO YOUR COMMUNITY, TO YOUR STATE, AND TO THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY. YOU OWE US ALL, BUT ESPECIALLY THE GIRL SCOUTS, AND THE FIRST LADY A HUGE APOLOGY. AFTER THAT APOLOGY, YOU SHOULD RESIGN - IMMEDIATELY - AND NEVER RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE AGAIN.
I was a girl scout. Girl scouts teach important skills and important ways of thinking, like the motto be prepared. What they do not teach is communism, or any of the other crap of which they are accused by the right wing asshole who somehow was elected to public office in Indiana. Being a feminist is something of which to be proud. Religion is not a requirement for either public office or proper public recognition of any other kind.
I can only hope the sane and factual and more moderate conservatives will repudiate him the way he deserves. Unfortunately, they seem to be thriving on this sort of crap, so they will probably reward him instead. We can only hope that pointing out the stupidity of this sort of thing might slow that down, if not reverse the trend. This guy seems like another Congressman Issa wanna-be on yet another baseless witch hunt.
From MSNBC.com
State of Indiana
Indiana state Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, accuses the Girl Scouts of celebrating feminists, lesbians and communists.
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
There's an agenda behind those cookies the Girl Scouts sell, one bent on promoting communism, lesbianism and subverting "traditional American family values," according to an Indiana lawmaker.
That's the reason Rep. Bob Morris, a Republican representing Fort Wayne, insists he won't go along with a resolution meant to honor the Girls Scouts on the organization's 100th anniversary.
Morris owns a chain of nutrition stores, but it's not the fat and sugar in Girl Scout cookies that have him riled up.
"After talking to some well-informed constituents, I did a small amount of Web-based research, and what I found is disturbing," Morris wrote Saturday to Republican House colleagues in a letter obtained by the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.Morris alleged that the Girl Scouts of America and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts "have entered into a close strategic affiliation with Planned Parenthood," which he claimed is trying to "sexualiz(e) young girls through the Girl Scouts."
Even worse, he wrote, only three of the 50 role models promoted by the Girl Scouts have even "a briefly-mentioned religious background."
"All the rest are feminists, lesbians, or Communists," he wrote.
As proof, Morris notes that the "radically pro-abortion" Michelle Obama is honorary president of Girl Scouts of America, which "should give each of us reason to pause before our individual or collective endorsement of the organization."
After learning all this, he wrote, he pulled his two daughters out of the Girl Scouts and instead put them in American Heritage Girls Little Flowers, a parent-run group best described as a center for recovering Girl Scouts.
Michelle Tompkins, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts, responded to Morris' assertions by telling NBC station WISE of Fort Wayne, "Not only is Rep. Morris off the mark on his claims, it's also unfortunate in his limited research that he failed to discover that, since 1917, every first lady has served as the honorary leader of Girl Scouts, including Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush."
"We believe that leadership is about hearing from all sides of an issue before making up one's mind," Tompkins said. "We only wish we had the chance to speak with the freshman representative before he distributed his letter."
For its part, Planned Parenthood of Indiana called Morris' comments "inflammatory, misleading, woefully inaccurate and harmful," saying he'd insulted not only it but also the Girl Scouts and Obama.
"Planned Parenthood currently has no formal partnership with the Girl Scouts, but supports their mission and recognizes their century of contributions to our society," the organization said in a statement to NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis.
NBC stations WISE of Fort Wayne, Ind., and WTHR of Indianapolis contributed to this report by M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com.
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