Posted on 05/21/2011 6:04:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Good for you!
WTF?
Most Girl Scouts will never even be aware of the Planned Parenthood connection to GSA. I was a GS Leader in Brownies, then later in Senior level. There were books, provided by national GSA, that the girls could read to prepare for badges, but none really got into the subjects of sexuality, and never mentioned abortion, at least the ones that I saw. Most girls join the Scouts for a fun activity, and our group did some fun things. With parents in charge of local groups, we have some control over what the girls do, and in which activities they participate. As in the Boy Scouts, with the Eagle, most Girls don't ever go for the Gold Award, they're just in the group for the fellowship.
As for cookie sales, that only happens for a couple of months, but when the girls are older, and want to do more things, there does have to be a lot of fundraising for those activities. When I took over my daughter's Senior group, the other Senior group had just gotten back from a cruise. Our girls talked about going on a big trip, and I told them that was fine, but I had no intention of spending every weekend fundraising, which is what the girls in the other group had done. When our girls realized the amount of money they'd need, and the amount of time that would have been spent on raising it, they pared down their plans quite a bit. Worked for me.
The Girl Scouts, at the national and international level might be lousy with feminists and lesbians, but parents DO have control over what happens locally, with their daughters' troops. The girls can learn valuable lessons of leadership and service in the Girl Scouts.
Locally the connection between Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women is not a well-kept secret at all. These organizations sponsor women's conferences together and are all in the Nevada Women's Lobby, which essentially lobbies for left wing causes and the perpetual raising of taxes under the guise of “helping women and children”. Still, most parents who have their daughters involved in Girl Scouts aren't aware of their organizations heavy ties with Planned Parenthood and NOW.
We trusted the Boy Scouts and could highly recommend that organization, but knowing what we knew about the local Girl Scouts, we refused to allow our daughter to be involved.
Both.
Disgusting headline, what idiot wrote that. sheesh
Drew was certainly a darling looking little girl.
Was that the controversy that involved Pam Smallwood (you can google that name with Texas and Girl Scouts for background info) several years back? Smallwood was an exec with a Central TX PP, and is now a very high mucky muck at one of the most productive abortion clinics in the world in Austin.
Oh?
I thought that was part of it's MISSION statement!
Interesting call -- unfortunately, considering the analogy and its consequent resolution. Worth keeping an eye on.
FWIW, though, I don't think BSA is going anywhere; I doubt they'll break up, and the pseudo-scouts orgs will probably just decay into intake atria for catamitic seraglios and totalitarian paramilitary groups and lose any pretense of actually standing for something.
Vice is pretty reliable that way -- of doing away with the waystations and middlemen and "getting down to it" fairly directly. Those guys won't be out in the woods long.
Bless this healthy, straight young woman. And kudos to her mom -- I guarantee there's a straight backbone in her.
I'd suggest a rephrasing to:
at one of the most prod
destructive abortion clinics in the world in Austin.
Placemark.
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