Have a cookie — support a Girl Scout ‘terrorist’? – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com

Thus does social conservatism skid through the last barriers of basic intellect, simple decency and common sense, hurtling breakneck off the deep end. Next stop: utter incoherence. …

But then, social conservatism is where logic fears to tread. It is a worldview driven by fear of the world beyond its racial, gender, religious, cultural and intellectual borders. Historically, it always has been. …

And you have to wonder: How narrow must a man’s worldview be, how paranoid his outlook, what a bunker his very life, when he is scared of Girl Scouts?

Some of us have argued that social conservatives use fear as a tactic. And there’s likely some truth to that. But one senses little of tactical planning in Morris’ missive. No, the fact is, he believes what he says. Many of them do.

If you want to be scared of something, be scared of that.

Have a cookie — support a Girl Scout ‘terrorist’? – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com