February 19, 2012
Charities Gird for Battle in the Latest 'Culture Wars’
Michael Owen Baker/Zuma Press/Newscom
Girl Scouts of the USA is battling a boycott of its cookie sales, as critics have attacked its nondiscrimination policies and attempted to tie the group to Planned Parenthood.
Cultural controversies can engulf some very unlikely charities. When a Girl Scout troop in Colorado admitted a transgender scout in November, Girl Scout troops nationwide came under attack and faced a cookie boycott.
The Scouts are far from the only group to find themselves drafted into America’s “culture wars,” skirmishes that are gaining in ferocity thanks to the Internet, the still-struggling economy, the presidential race, and the importance of charities in
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