From
Bryan Cones at US Catholic:
I suppose this whole thing would be a little comic--the USCCB
investigating the Girl Scouts sounds more like an article in The Onion
than one in the Associated Press--except for the fact that the Girl
Scouts do such great work in helping girls defend themselves from a
consumer culture that encourages them to think of themselves as sex
objects with credit cards (as we explored in our May issue cover story).
The bishops with this move also manage to irritate the last segment of
the female population still available to offend: preadolescent girls and
teens (having already tweaked both women of childbearing age on
contraception, and religious women for whatever it is the sisters have
been doing at their annual meetings).
Seriously, some honcho at the USCCB needs to put a stop to this. It looks a little, um, unhinged.
The overreach by the bishops for some sort of nebulous purity within the church begins to look like the spreading madness of an inquisition. What an embarrassment to thinking Roman Catholics. Who's next on the bishops' hit list?
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