Christian Right freaks out over doll companies’ connections to reproductive health issues

Snippets:

Tracie and Richard Cross have four daughters, who have seven American Girl dolls between them…

… A few weeks ago Tracie read on the company’s Web site that it was donating $50,000 and proceeds from its I CAN bracelet to Girls Inc., which sounded like the kind of nice thing American Girl would do. But when she clicked on www.girlsinc.org, Tracie was crushed to find an endorsement of Roe v. Wade and language supportive of homosexuals.

… “Girls Inc.,” one mother warned, “is pro-abortion and pro-contraception and pro all the other lies the secular world wants our girls to believe.”

Yes, we know those lying secularists will try to convince our innocent little girls that when they have sex in just a few years (which they will, folks… especially if you make it something you never talk about in any kind of healthy way at home), condoms — those foul, Satanic creations that prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis and gonorrhea and syphilis, not to mention unwanted teenage pregnancy — will protect them better than a good, old-fashioned screaming from the pulpit about abstinence! What evil, evil lies those secularists tell!

And what’s it like being married to someone who is actually anti-contraceptive? Is it like in Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life” when Eric Idle says: “I mean, we’ve got two children, and we’ve had sexual intercourse twice”?

I liked this part:

For now, American Girl, which grossed $379 million in sales last year, is standing by its commitment to Girls Inc. Meanwhile, the group is enjoying a surge in donations, says Roche. If the boycott has had any real impact on sales, it was not noticeable at American Girl Place in Chicago last week. It was as bustling as ever.