cschultz@plaind.com, 216-999-5087
Two alternatives:
http://www.visionforum.com/beautifulgirlhood/about/
http://faith.edu/bookstore/gifts/doll.htm
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This is America, not Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. We have something called freedom of speech, something you and your evil political party oppose.
"Forget all that. What these extremists don't like is that Girls Inc. also offers comprehensive sex education, supports women's right to reproductive freedom and urges tolerance toward lesbians."
I guess I must be an extremist because I certainly don't like it.
TRANSLATION: They take the money from loyal customers and families and give it groups promoting abortion, homosexuality, and immorality.
"Last week, the American Family Association and the Pro-Life Action League accused American Girl of promoting abortion and supporting lesbians because of their fund-raising campaign for Girls Inc."
First she say that pro-life groups are 'accusing' American Girl of promoting Abortion and Supporting Lesbianism.
"What these extremists don't like is that Girls Inc. also offers comprehensive sex education, supports women's right to reproductive freedom and urges tolerance toward lesbians."
Then she goes right on ahead and proves they were right..
Don't these people even listen to what they say?
What a load.
>>My friendship with an American Girl doll began when a black slave girl named Addy helped my 8-year-old daughter find her courage and define her values.<<
Helping your kids find their courage and define their values is YOUR job as a PARENT Mzzzz. Schultz, not some silly book.
Liberals love to harken back to the nobility of their victims...and ignore what those victims would have really said.
Pot, Kettle. Kettle, Pot.
And, a translation!
Forget all that. What these red-staters don't like is that Girls Inc. also offers comprehensive sex education (indcluding "fisting" demonstrations), supports women's right to hire a hit-man to kill their unborn children, especially if they are black (Margaret Sanger's legacy of eugenics in action), and urges unequivocal acceptance of lesbians, or else.
(Thank you, I'll be here all week.)
Yes "Addie must pay" because I am not supporting the dollmaker's political agenda by spending my money for their products. Sheesh. Get a life Connie. Step right out there and demand that American Girl produce a lesbian friend for Addie. And a doll friend who has to courageously seek an abortion without telling Mommy.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Be still my heart! I am SO touched! (NOT)
I don't want little girls exposed to the ugliness of abortion or ANYBODY'S sex life. My grand-daughter is 9 - that is a little girl. I have dropped thousands of dollare with American Girl, but I will not spend one penney there is ANYTHING comes into my grand-daughter's hands that addresses topics she should not be exposed to at this stage of her life.
"Last week, the American Family Association and the Pro-Life Action League accused American Girl of promoting abortion and supporting lesbians because of their fund-raising campaign for Girls Inc."
Hm...she seems to be implying here that the charges are unfounded.
"....equip her with critical health and sexuality information, provide her leadership experience, teach her media literacy and money management skills, and foster her self-respect and self-determination." (http://www.girlsinc.org/ic/intro.php)
See the Feminist rhetoric and buzz words here?
"They are flaming over American Girl sales of the "I Can" wristband, meant as a symbol of girls' empowerment that sells for $1. Proceeds go to programs of Girls Inc. designed to build disadvantaged girls' skills in a variety of fields, including science, math and technology."
The reason we're in Iraq right now is to help the Iraqis achieve self determination. But I think this woman would tell me that our actions in Iraq were evil even while restating the above.
"Forget all that. What these extremists don't like is that Girls Inc. also offers comprehensive sex education, supports women's right to reproductive freedom and urges tolerance toward lesbians."
So on one hand we're all paranoid and buying a bunch of lies. On the other hand, this group is doing exactly what we accuse it of doing and we're just a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobes for not liking their activism.
Funny, the same Feminists who hate Barbie for promoting unreasonable standards of beauty and GI Joe for promoting violence are behind this? What crap.
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NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 05/06/1999 500.00 99034523378
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 10/21/1999 500.00 99034920342
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 03/24/2000 500.00 20035523476
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 09/27/2000 2000.00 20036302071
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 05/16/2001 1000.00 21990148823
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 10/09/2002 1000.00 22992478934
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA PAC 04/16/2004 1500.00 249614120
Why couldn't she just get a black lawn jockey like everybody else?
Looks like the story of Abbie is a latter day rehash of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Don't know who wrote the Abbie story, but Harriet Beecher Stowe at length admitted she'd never EVER visited a plantation. Stories with a political agenda, like some of the movies we're getting lately make me sick. If Ms. Shultz really wanted her daughter to know about the horrors of slavery, she might direct her to true stories told by actual slaves as in "The Slave Naratives." (available by Googling)(cute dolls with stories of early day victims is so much easier)
Further, she might even look up all the hundreds of old Civil War era wills that showed the lengths many slave owners went to to leave legacies to their slaves, unlike the federal government who made no provision for feeding and caring for the emancipated and left as many as 50,000 slaves to starve to death wandering the roads of the south after the war. What many fail to realize is that manumission was illegal. If it took the Union five years and almost 400,000 men to free the slaves, what makes anyone think a single slave owner could have prevailed over the laws of the day? Slave owners were as much slaves as the ones they owned in an evil system.
Are they using moneys from the sale of bracelets or the sale of the dolls to fund these programs?
I got all my values from a book, too. Mine's called the Holy Bible, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't endorse abortion. But then, I'm sure that American Girl didn't endorse it ten years ago, either.
Dear Ms. Schultz,It’s true what the “Addy” book you quoted says: Love can make a family so strong they can’t be torn apart.
This is also true: Several thousand times each day, forceps and a vacuum machine are used by a doctor to tear a small child apart inside its mother’s womb.
That’s happened over 40 million times in the last 32 years. It’s no great leap of reasoning to estimate that half of the victims were female. That’s 20 million little (if you’ll excuse the expression) “American Girls,” torn to pieces and put out as trash.
There are millions of Americans who wish to have no connection with the process of ripping a small child limb from limb. They also have no wish to be connected with teaching girls that it’s part of freedom.
You call those who object to American Girl’s support for this “extremists” and “un-American.” Could there really be anything more extreme or less like the spirit of this great nation than killing a small child and pretending that it’s an empowering act?
If you’re looking for an extremist, look in the mirror.
Almost 20 years ago I took that same look in the mirror, and became a pro-lifer.