Posted on 03/13/2010 5:29:47 AM PST by Kaslin
I've seen more than a few boxes of Do-Si-Dos and Samoas around lately. It's hard to look askance at the Girl Scouts when there's so much sweetness in the air. But there is reason for keeping the Girl Scouts out of the "mom and apple pie" category. For one thing, the organization has a think tank, a nongovernmental organization and a welcome mat out to Planned Parenthood.
At a meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this month, the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides held a session for young people in which the International Planned Parenthood Federation distributed a brochure about living with HIV titled "Healthy, Happy and Hot." (Gratitude to U.N. watchdogs like C-FAM for keeping an eye out for such nefarious nonsense.)
The brochure sets itself up as a feel-good guide for dangerous behavior. "Young people living with HIV may feel that sex is just not an option, but don't worry -- many young people living with HIV live healthy, fun, happy and sexually fulfilling lives. You can, too, if you want to! Things get easier (and sex can get even better) as you become more comfortable with your status."
And since there is considerable sexual advice offered, advice on "safe abortion" naturally follows in the brochure.
This presentation served as a backdrop for a joint statement from the several U.N. organizations making up the U.N. Adolescent Girls Task Force. The task force declares its support for programs "that empower ... adolescent girls, particularly those aged 10 to 14 years." No innocence preserved.
The United Nations doesn't surprise me so much, but the Girl Scouts continue to greatly disappoint. About a decade ago, I wrote a piece for National Review called "The Cookie Crumbles," about things that could surprise moms and dads helping their daughter work on her Brownie badges. While the Boy Scouts have been under attack by politically correct watchdogs, the Girl Scouts have escaped censure by embracing leftist politics, reproductive permissiveness and secularism. It's been a long slide to sex-prep work for the U.N.
The Girl Scouts aren't shy about the causes they embrace. A 2008 post-election survey of girls and boys between 13 and 17 initiated by the Girl Scouts' think tank, the Girl Scout Research Institute, found overwhelming support for then President-elect Barack Obama, and noted concern for a laundry list of international and domestic issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and "the difficulties women face in reaching leadership positions in our country."
I don't mind an arm of the Girl Scouts gathering information. But I do mind a group we associate with Tagalongs, tying knots, and basic life skills -- with protecting the innocence of children in an otherwise hyper-sexualized and politically fraught culture -- doing exactly the opposite. I mind leftist activists at national conventions. I mind faux empowerment laced with the persistent whine of victimization.
Your local Girl Scout troop may be run by traditional God-fearing women who want nothing to do with radical Planned Parenthood seminars, but you should know what's going on at the top. And if you are looking for alternatives, they're out there. In recent years I've encountered the American Heritage Girls, established by a Cincinnati-based former Girl Scout troop leader, which seeks to "Build women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country." And in a country known for entrepreneurship, a few sensible moms can start their own skill-building groups, very far away from the United Nations and Planned Parenthood; anything that allows girls to just be girls.
where is the “Oh Jeez Not this shit again” graphic?
Proud Girl Scout leader - who has no contact with National except to buy badges
So let’s dump the Boy Scouts, too- after all, their international organzation is also pervaded by euro liberalism and the gay agenda. Since localism is to be discarded because of taint from above, please extend your contempt to Boy Scouting as well as Girl Scouting
http://www.bsa-discrimination.org/html/wosm.html
ditto with Boy Scouts everywhere except the US
They day we allowed homos to co-opt both the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts is the day both of these organizations died.
As mother of a son I say- no girls in Boy Scouts, please!
Let boys have ONE PLACE where they don’t have to use girl rules
Time for co-ed into Venture Scouts at age 14.
(ditto for boys in GS- no no no)
Yeah, they sure “died” alright
http://usscouts.org/eagle/bottomline.asp
What happens to a Scout?
For every 100 boys who join Scouting, records indicate that:
•RARELY will one be brought before the juvenile court system
•2 will become Eagle Scouts
•17 will become future Scout volunteers
•12 will have their first contact with a church
•1 will enter the clergy
•5 will earn their church award
•18 will develop a hobby that will last through their adult life
•8 will enter a vocation that was learned through the merit badge system
•1 will use his Scouting skills to save his own life
•1 will use his Scouting skills to save the life of another person
Scouting’s alumni record is equally impressive. A recent nation- wide survey of high schools revealed the following information:
•85% of student council presidents were Scouts
•89% of senior class presidents were Scouts
•80% of junior class presidents were Scouts
•75% of school publication editors were Scouts
•71% of football captains were Scouts
Scouts also account for:
•64% of Air Force Academy graduates
•68% of West Point graduates
•70% of Annapolis graduates
•72% of Rhodes Scholars
•85% of F.B.I. agents
•26 of the first 29 astronauts
Yep the ultimate Marxist government machine. Let’s all applaud!!!!
We quit the girl scouts and are happier with the 4H club. I felt we did the right thing and never looked back. The 4H club is more focused on the child’s own learning and they do a lot of community service but that part is your own choice.
Its not about the cookies, Sisku.
It’s another formerly-conservative organization infiltrated by the left with honeyed words and seemingly-right thinking. They get a few people at the top, and the honey turns to vinegar to pour into our culture.
They do it over and over, and since they’re deceitful, there is no way to stop them. It’s making me absolutely nuts.
Abandoning the Girl Scouts is not the solution. Tearing down the rot at the top will help a lot more.
I gave up the Girl Scouts for Lent one year and never went back, long before any of this crap. It was a gathering place for witchy women. Juliet Lowe has to be rolling in her grave.
I know... my response was to Dakota, who likes the cookies. Thus my suggestion to instead support the good troop leaders (like silverleaf) on a local level instead of funneling money into the national organization through cookie purchases.
Sadly, so many conservative parents have yanked their daughters out of the Girl Scouts that there’s no one left to fight the good fight.
Too late. Start over with AHG.
The leader of my local tea party is involved in Girl Scouts.
The Boy Scouts have not been co-opted.
I agree. :)
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Hillary’s friends?
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