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Title: The great Girl Scout cookie row
Post by: SandraJane on January 16, 2012, 05:03:57 AM
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The great Girl Scout cookie row

Viral video demands nationwide biscuit boycott

Los Angeles | Guy Adams Author | Sunday 15 January 2012

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Its motto is "be prepared." But there's a limit to everything, and at least one young member of America's Scouting movement is deeply unprepared for its forward-thinking efforts to embrace modernity.

A teenage Girl Scout from southern California has been thrust to the centre of the culture wars, after starring in a viral video that attacked the organisation's little-known recruitment policy allowing transgendered children to join its ranks.