Posted on 06/03/2011 2:06:06 PM PDT by NYer
DENVER, Colorado, June 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Denver Catholic bishop is warning parents that membership in the Girl Scouts could carry the danger of making their daughters more receptive to the pro-abortion agenda.
In a Wednesday column for the Denver Catholic Register, Denver Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley observes that in the last year a growing number of parents and youth ministers have shared concerns with him over the Girl Scouts alignment with groups advocating abortion.
He urges parents to browse for themselves the websites of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) to see the organization’s approach to “sexuality, ‘choice’, and reproductive issues,” saying this exercise “may be a sobering experience.”
The Girl Scouts have faced strong criticism especially in the last year after the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) revealed that they participated in a United Nations workshop distributing the Planned Parenthood sex education pamphlet “Happy, Healthy, and Hot.”
The pamphlet instructs young girls not to think of sex as “just about vaginal or anal intercourse.” “There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!” it states.
Just last month, two teenage girls went public with their decision to leave the Girl Scouts after eight years because of the organization’s ties to Planned Parenthood.
In his column, Bishop Conley quotes a youth minister who warned that girls who have been influenced by Girl Scouts USA will be “more receptive” to the pro-abortion and pro-contraception agenda.
“It’s hard to imagine that a girl who remains involved with Girl Scouts into young adulthood won’t eventually learn of the connections her organization has with ‘pro-choice’, pro-contraception and ‘reproductive freedom’ groups,” the youth minister wrote. “If she was introduced to GSUSA through her parents and her local parish, then that will inevitably create contradictions between her Catholic faith and her Scouting experience.”
The bishop notes that Scouting’s structures allow local troops to have a certain amount of autonomy, but nevertheless he says the activities and orientations of the international and national Scout bodies have “an important trickle-down effect.” “This is exactly why ‘pro-choice’ organizations have worked to develop connections with the Scouting movement,” he writes.
“Parents, as the primary educators of their children, have every right to insist that their beliefs, especially their moral and religious beliefs, be respected—not undermined—by the organizations to which they entrust their children,” he says. “Parents need to remain alert to the content of their daughters’ activities. And Catholics involved in the Girl Scouting movement should make it clear to leadership that Scouting is only a means to an end—the proper formation of young character.”
“It’s not an end in itself; and should Scouting ever fail in that proper formation, other groups can be found or formed to take its place,” he concludes.
Contact Information:
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
World Bureau, Olave Centre
12c Lyndhurst Road
London NW3 5PQ
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7794 1181
Fax: +44 (0)20 7431 3764
Email: wagggs@wagggsworld.org
Girl Scouts of the USA
420 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10018-2798
Phone: (800) 478-7248
E-mail: Use this form.
but they just keep voting democrat, so they must all be for those things. Talk about exposing your kids
AS for the Boy Scouts, well, they are being swallowed by the global warming crowd and internationally, the homos have won a foothold
Here's just one article from Cana-duh
http://www.bsa-discrimination.org/html/scoutscanada-gay.html
IMHO, The UN (which was the source of this original conference that set off this firestorm about Girl Scout participation)is a cesspool and leaking into virtually every international and US national group, with the help of democrats. Aside from WAGGGS and World Scouting, check out what the International Red Cross has become.
I know what GS is supposed to be about and I refuse to surrender
check it
Non FR links:
President Bush: Shares Our Catholic Values
President Bush and John Kerry: On the Issues Important to Catholics
"Seismic" Catholic Shift to Bush [Insight ]
Analyst cites abortion stance as some Catholic voters shift to Bush
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Bush Memoir Says He Returned to His Faith, Time and Time Again in Office [Bush's Closet Catholicism]
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Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP [GOTV effort = 79% Evangelical, 52% Catholic to Bush]
People of Faith Deliver the Election
Kerry Loses His Faith
PRESIDENT BUSH WON CATHOLIC VOTE
Blame the Republicans? No, This Time It's the Christians
Election Reinforces U.S. Religious Divide
Faith Factor Proves Key in U.S. Elections
Poll: Catholics Trending Towards Bush
Kerry Losing Ground Among White Catholics
Voting Our Conscience, Not Our Religion [Catholic Prof Says "Vote Kerry"]
Vatican: Kerry guilty of heresy; incurrs automatic excommunication
Should a Catholic Vote for Bush or Kerry?
Why is Bush getting the bishop's blessing?
Ambassador Ray Flynn in Cleveland 10/16/2004- "Vote 2004: The Catholic Factor"
John Kerry Flip-Flops on When to Use His Catholic Belief on Politics
Abortion is Turning Democrats Off to Kerry
Planned Parenthood Unveils TV Ads Backing John Kerry on Abortion
Catholic bishops should beware of Kerry's 'respect'
Monsignor Jude O'Doherty and President Bush
Kerry Scolds Vatican Over Gay Marriage
Kerry's Catholic Supporters
Some attempts to sabotage Catholic voters
Priest: It's a sin to vote pro-choice
America at the Crossroads
(Clinton Apointee Raymond)Flynn: Catholics must vote for culture of life
The army of God marching for Bush
Kerry’s Auxiliary Bishops
The Catholics for Bush website is now live!
LOL...grimly
I’m not going to compare the number of obama stickers I see on cars picking up kids at my daughter’s catholic school, to your own bubble
My very own Catholic state roundly tossed Robert Ehrlich and Michaal Steele (Catholic) in favor of Martin O’Malley for governor. Twice.
I agree with you on the Obama stickers at church. I have been tempted to cross them out with a marker, but refrained.
As of right now — they are all gone. So I’m wondering what happened??
BTw, our priest gave a three line short announcement on Natural Family Planning in his announcements after Mass today.
1. It’s natural
2. It doesn’t hurt anyone (meaning the married couple)
3. Couples who practice Natural Family Planning have a very low rate of divorce.
I was aware of the first two, but I had no idea about the low rate of divorce. Makes sense, though, since the couple must do a lot of cooperating and communicating.
Aren’t there parts of Maryland that lean liberal — around Baltimore?
And then elsewhere the state is basically Republican?
3. Couples who practice Natural Family Planning have a very low rate of divorce.
Also people who are committed to NFP take their religion and vows seriously.
ehrlich lost EVERYWHERE
Worse the second time
Just look at the axxes who marylanders elect
Mikulski
Sarbanes
Cardin
As for the Senate, luckily Virginia often cancels us out
Unfortunately we often cancel out Virginia
People here may talk a good conservative line but they are braindead democrat voters when they hit the booths. Soccer Moms put obama (and O Malley) in office a lot of them good Catholics- so they think. You don’t even want yo know about my daughters Catholic school curriculum and some of the links her assignments require. Makes similar GS issue look fairly normal and tame.
Half of our GS troops come from the Catholic school, for better or worse
ehrlich lost EVERYWHERE
Worse the second time
Just look at the axxes who marylanders elect
Mikulski
Sarbanes
Cardin
As for the Senate, luckily Virginia often cancels us out
Unfortunately we often cancel out Virginia
People here may talk a good conservative line but they are braindead democrat voters when they hit the booths. Soccer Moms put obama (and O Malley) in office a lot of them good Catholics- so they think. You don’t even want yo know about my daughters Catholic school curriculum and some of the links her assignments require. Makes similar GS issue look fairly normal and tame.
Half of our GS troops come from the Catholic school, for better or worse
That’s strange. I thought that there were some Republican parts of Maryland.
Here in Oregon, it is Portland and Eugene who win it for the dimocrats. We get so sick of it.
That makes sense too because procreation is a part of the vows of the Sacrament of Matrimony.
That for me is why many marriages fail......this issue of procreation and faithfulness is never discussed before couples marry.
That’s not the way I remember Girl Scouts.
Nope.
there are about 17 girl scout councils in the USA that have a direct affiliation with Planned Parenthood while many others support planned parenthood and are pro-abortion and pro-lesbian, roughly 30% of the GSA’s professional staff are lesbians.
NO Catholic Parish should be affiliated with the Girl Scouts.
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