This article is garbage. I live in this archdiocese, and there is no “ban”. The Archbishop stated that the official policy of the archdiocese is to deemphasize parish-related GS troops, with an accompanying shift toward Heritage Girls troops.
The language of the headline and article is inflammatory, and reminds me very much of the type of writing I expect to see in the Washington Post - not from Townhall.
Thank you
GS is a secular organization and unlike BS, troops are not chartered but formed by volunteers under the umbrella of a regional GS Council
Being secular means the membership is very representative of our communities and society where we all live and political values and opinions and matters of faith are up to the girl and her family - our program respects that and tries to stay out of it but
Some of our volunteers are chowderheads and liberal soccer moms so there you go
If you don’t like their influence on your girl, you start your own troop and say the GS Promise as it is written... To serve God and my country
Tens of thousands of boxes of GS cookies are donated to military troops, nursing homes and first responders and I never heard of a troop serving in Afghanistan who turned down a box of tagalongs
and it is the Archdiocese of Kansas City Ks, the diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph goes with the Archdiocese of St Louis.
Oddly enough, in my mother’s time in Irish-Catholic New York, it was frowned on to join the Girl Scouts because it was considered a “Protestant” organization. Same with joining the Y. That’s how traditional the Church was in the first half of the 20th Century. I was never allowed to be a girl scout!