Posted on 05/18/2011 10:49:27 AM PDT by julieee
New Pro-Life Web Site Links Girl Scouts With Planned Parenthood
A new pro-life website set up by two teen siblings exposes the links and connections between the Girl Scouts of America and the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/18/new-pro-life-web-site-links-girl-scouts-with-planned-parenthood/
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Thank you so much for posting this! We are beginning to fight back on their field....finally.
Does this mean no more Thin Mints for me?
That’s it! I’ve purchased my last box of Tagalongs.
I stopped buying GS cookies when I found out how pro-lesbian and anti-family the GS are.
They are also anti-gun and have ties to animal rights groups like peta.
That's why the Boy Scouts are so reviled . . . they won't allow known homosexuals to be leaders and refuse to remove God from their oath. Hence the media anger against the BSA.
GSA is already a lost cause and now it's a playground for Planned Predators.
I wish they wouldn’t sell them at church. I’ve expressed these issues to the bishop, but even our Catholic schools have a troop!
You're wrong. We have not.
Good. I wish they'd drop any and all affiliation with the Planned Predators who want to get them ready for abortions and sex without proper parental guidance.
To think that they'd be affiliated with an organization that advocates the brutal and bloody slaughter of over 3,300 babies each day is an outrage. The Girl Scouts were supposed to be the mothers of tomorrow, not the womb-receptacles of some wet chemicals.
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Scouting as I know it in our council of 38,000 girls - is local. We have very little to do with the national or world organizations. Cookie sales benefit the Councils (and troops), not National. They make their money by lobbying, donations, bequests and trademarks. A rather self-important group of diversity obsessed PC women who are nearly totally disconected (and increasingly so) from the girls and troop leaders. Save our camps and leave us alone. Amen.
You are correct, the word “God” has not been removed from the oath , which is as follows:
The Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
Please note the current page (http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_central/promise_law/) does not have an asterick next to it.
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However, the official meaning of this word is defined elsewhere:
From 1995 until as recently as June 2009 the /promise page read thusly:
The Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God* and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
*The word “God” can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one’s spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word “God” with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate.
Here is the source:
http://replay.web.archive.org/20080905192853/http://www.girlscouts.org/program/promiselaw.html
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If you want further clarification on how to approach this, go to this page:
What You Can Do as a Leader
* Be sensitive to special dates celebrated by girls and their families in your troop/group. You might even want to ask each parent for the dates at the beginning of the year so you can include them on your calendar.
* Even if your troop is all of one faith, the Girl Scout meeting is not an appropriate place for prayers and hymns. Girl Scouts is not a religious organization.
* Help girls to be sensitive to all spiritual beliefs when picking readings for ceremonies, or songs for around mealtime. The songs and readings chosen can celebrate similarities as well as differences in beliefs. Avoid references to “God” as being a specific deity.
Resources:
Blue Book of Basic Documents. Available from Girl Scout councils, council shops, and the Girl Scout National Equipment Service. Contains the Preamble to the Constitution of Girl Scouts of the USA.
A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, by M. J. Ryan, editor (Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, 1994). A great resource for readings before meals.
Source: http://replay.web.archive.org/20040604025417/http://www.girlscouts.org/adults/beliefs.html
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Also visit: http://www.prolifewaco.org/Closer.htm for other links to interesting articles.
I had to go to the wayback machine, as a controversy created by STOPP (http://www.stopp.org/) and Pro Life Waco creating a link with GSA and Planned Parenthood in March of 04 resulted in this page being removed from the GSA site a few months later.
Anecdotally:
20-25 years ago, a close relative’s mother worked for the local council, there was a lot of inappropriate behavior of the gender preference sort, straights such as herself (a gold award scout) were uncomfortable, and perhaps unwelcome.
15 years ago, while hanging out in a college dorm, one of the students bragged about the discovery at summer camp that year that none of the staff, including herself, were straight. She did not think any of them could be thought of as “recruiting” however.
And then there is the book - “On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience” in which the editor supposes 1 in three staff are lesbian, and has the interestingly titled essay “All I Really Need to Know About Being a Lesbian I Learned at Girl Scout Camp”
read reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/My-Honor-Lesbians-Scouting-Experience/product-reviews/1886231028/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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The controversy is not new, though I think that the GSA is perhaps less inclined to do cover-ups these days.
Are you sure *no* percentage of cookie sales goes to the national org?
I had an amusing conversation with a man once who asked how someone could be a member of the ________ Church, being as how no matter how orthodox a local congregation might be, the national organization was corrupt, unorthodox, and had ties to P.P.
He had just recently refused to look at some of the above information, when we discussed the fact that we had a GSA troop at our church, in which his family was very involved.
I just looked at him and said - you know, that’s exactly how we feel about Girl Scouts.
In any event, the Gold and Silver Award Scout members of my family recommend the American Heritage Girls to anyone who wants a scouting experience that reflects Christian values.
Save those pages - if they do want to cover up, a robots.txt command can stop previously archived pages.
The FAQ on cookie sales says none of the profits go to National. http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookie_faqs.asp
However GSUSA does own the brand name and logo so they get royalties from the bakery. GSUSA also controls sales program and product standards..logical as this is the “only” officially snactioned money earning activty for all Girl Scouts. National dues is only $12 a year.
Many women blithely recommend “heritage girls” as an alternative to GS. Your troop/town must be pretty sheltered.
Half my troop is Jewish. what a slap in the face to denigrate their “heritage” by recommending GS find s “Christian” group. Maybe the “gold and silver” members of your family ought to think about what the Christian “heritage girls” message is to Jewish girls, muslim girls, buddhist girls, Hindu girls.
No thanks.
Ma’am,
It was not my purpose to offend, please note that I said they recommend AHG “to anyone who wants a scouting experience that reflects Christian values,” not to everyone.
I acknowledge that Girl Guides / Girl Scouts are overtly multicultural or globally minded, as witnessed by the fact that the pledge to be a sister to every girl scout is included in the Law, and specifically includes girl scouts *everywhere.* (FWIW, Boy Scouts also have a solid understanding of worldwide fraternity, though it is not in the oath or law of the BSA in the same manner).
My problem is that the identification seems to have become more one of gender identity - as defined by whom? - than of some broader principle of fellowship, such as all humankind being created in the image of God and therefore enjoying certain rights. privileges and obligations toward the creator, one another, and all creation, to name a possible one.
It would appear to a lot of people that GSA has adopted that peculiar form of tolerance which is the height of intolerance - a neutrality that is actually hostility. In contrast to the quotes from my previous post, BSA allows troops to be Christian, Mormon, Buddhist... Cubs are taught to practice their religion at home and their place of worship. At a Scout’s Board of Review, he may be asked “how he is serving his religious institution, if he has one, or, if not, ask him how he satisfies his duty to God.”
I suppose that some people who have a more specific standard might say they are too tolerant, sort of like the Masons, who are an international fraternity that works ‘within’ the bounds of local religions but actually supplants them with its own. Indeed, some purposeful Christians reject them because of this, and have developed some pretty hardcore alternatives.
The American Heritage Girls are very specific about being a Christ-centered organization, with a Christian statement of faith, which would give pause to some people (though they would be welcome), even so, I suspect that many scouts from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish traditions would be more comfortable with the traditions and heritage they revere than with those that are espoused by current feminist ideologues in general and planned parenthood in particular.
Or, if they are older, they may seek out a compatible Venturing (formerly Explorer) Post, something else I would recommend for those who do not want the specific Christian themed AHG, but were unhappy with these GSA issues.
Note - I am not currently involved with them, but was briefly in the past. At the time, I thought they were an organization with great potential, though possibly still in the developmental stages of “scouting” - whatever that may mean. I am glad to see they now have a memorandum of mutual support with the BSA, that may have positive impact on both groups.
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