Here’s Why Christians Are Choosing To Leave The Girl Scouts

thefederalist.com ^ | May 10, 2017 | Margot Cleveland

[Morgana]

It sure is easy to get confused these days. One moment #Resistance against offensive politics and policies is brave. Bold. Daring. The next? “That is crazy talk.”

At least that’s the charge leveled when conservatives resist liberal policies, such as when the archbishop of Kansas City, Joseph Naumann, announced last week that the Archdiocese had decided to end its relationship with the Girl Scouts of America. As he put it:

To follow Jesus and his Gospel will often require us to be counter-cultural. With the promotion by Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) of programs and materials reflective of many of the troubling trends in our secular culture, they are no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and the values of the Gospel.

Instead, parishes in the Archdiocese of Kansas City will partner with American Heritage Girls, a Christian organization and a “much better fit for our parishes,” according to the Statement issued by the Archbishop.

The response from the Left? “Pedophile priests.” I kid you not. Here’s the opener from Hemant Mehta’s piece at Patheos, ridiculing the archbishop’s decision to transition parishes from the Girl Scouts to American Heritage Girls: “The Archdiocese of Kansas City (in Kansas) is finally taking action against the people who routinely ignore the Catholic Church’s stated values. So say goodbye to all those pedophile priests.” Well, not really, he explains, say goodbye instead to the Girl Scouts.

What a clever ad hominem attack! I’ve never heard that one before. Well, not really.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Do the girl scouts still have lesbians leading them?

[meadsjn]

First the Left destroys the Boy Scouts and now the Girl Scouts.

The diesel dykes took over the Girl Scouts 30 or 40 years ago.

[rlmorel]

I stopped buying products from Girl Scouts 10-15 years ago.

I loved being in Boy Scouts, but gave up on them too.

Sad.

[Waryone]

Girl Scouts have been overrun by bull dykes, atheists, abortionists and feminazi’s for more than 30 years. I haven’t purchased a Girl Scout cookie for at least 30 years because of that fact. The Boy Scouts tried to hold out, but they’ve been overtaken now as well.

[cyclotic]

You’re correct. Girl Scouts kept their radical agenda pretty quiet and changed slowly, Boy Scouts issued a press release to announce their moral failings.

[Salvation]

I’ve heard good things about them too.

[rlmorel]

Back in 2013, I saw an article about a guy named Josh Shackley who was a national spokesman for the Girl Scouts. It was an article at Breitbart that tipped me off:

Who is GSA Spokesman Josh Shackley, and what is he doing with the Girl Scouts?

Here is an excerpt:
"So, who is Josh Ackley? The press, moms, and the girls may know Josh Ackley in his day job but probably don’t know what he does off-hours. He is the lead singer of a band called The Dead Betties.

The Dead Betties were part of a movement called “homo-punk,” sometimes “homocore,” that Wikipedia describes as “an offshoot of punk… distinguished by its discontent with society in general, and specifically society’s disapproval of the gay, bi-sexual, lesbian and transgender communities.” The Dead Betties are profiled in the book Homocore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock.

Girl Scout moms and girls will know none of this. They will also not know that The Dead Betties put out a campy video that received MTV play in the mid-00s called “Hellevator,” where a sneering Ackley watches over a woman being stalked and then strangled on an elevator in an abandoned building.

A Dead Bettie video called “George’s Mr.s Right” (sic) shows a naked man–perhaps Ackley, though the subject’s faced is obscured–covered in newspapers, writhing on the ground, touching his genitals, feigning masturbation, intercut with brief footage of a scantily-clad woman. Later, the man is in the shower washing blood off his legs with dollar bills. We don’t see the woman again.

Josh Ackley joined the Girl Scouts in 2008 in the office of external communications in the Girl Scout headquarters in New York City. In that capacity, he speaks to the national media. Go to the Girl Scout media page and the only person you are directed to is Josh Ackley. Ackley is quoted in numerous national stories about the Girl Scouts.

A year after he started with the Girl Scouts, he became the primary blogger on the Girl Scout website. The blog is written specifically for the girls to get advice and keep up on Girl Scout news.

And then there is Josh Ackley, sent out to quell the anger of concerned moms. Controversy erupted in 2011 over a girls-only panel hosted by the Girl Scouts at the UN Commission on the Status of Women where one mom claims to have found a stack of Planned Parenthood brochures in the room when the panel ended. The Girl Scouts have steadfastly denied knowing the brochures were there, but the ensuing controversy further fueled what has become a cottage industry of moms angry at what they see as the troublesome drift of the Girl Scouts. The controversy has also contributed to the declining fortunes of the Girl Scouts, who have lost substantial numbers of members and cookie sales in recent years.

When a group of St. Louis mothers, concerned about the UN panel, demanded a meeting, along with his now-departed boss Michelle Tompkins, it was Ackley who was sent by the Girl Scouts to quell the uprising..."

IIRC, the big deal apart from this (which was nauseating enough) was that the GSA said he wasn't affiliated with them. So I looked (at the time) at the web pages and took screenshots: I used Google to check the page, and this is what I found:

Strange. But, when I checked the cached version from three days ago...

I had heard of this radicalization of the Girl Scouts some time ago, but this ices it. How about this new person, Stewart Goodbody? This is a joke, right?

Sigh. Most people I am sure are completely unaware of this, and nearly all liberals and a percentage of people who call themselves Republicans would not see any problem with this.

And I see that as a major problem.

[FatherofFive]

Thanks for the info.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[arthurus]

Thanks for the research. I can use that stuff.

[oh8eleven]

Great job!

[rlmorel]

This is awful stuff. Why would anyone knowingly put this disturbing person in any position to have exposure or contact with young girls?

[rlmorel]

When people ask why you don’t contribute to Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, they are counting on you not to have a concrete answer so they can brand you as a child hater/cheapskate/whatever.

This is a valuable item to be able to relate to them.

[Jeff Chandler]

The GS purpose is to “change” the world:

Who We Are
We’re 2.6 million strong—1.8 million girls and 800,000 adults who believe in the power of every G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ to change the world.

Our extraordinary journey began more than 100 years ago with the original G.I.R.L., Juliette Gordon “Daisy” Low. On March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia, she organized the very first Girl Scout troop, and every year since, we’ve honored her vision and legacy, building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

We’re the preeminent leadership development organization for girls. And with programs from coast to coast and across the globe, Girl Scouts offers every girl a chance to practice a lifetime of leadership, adventure, and success.

[T-Bone Texan]

I see that one of the tracts pictured is on the topic of “docility”.

I have a 5 yr old daughter that really, really needs to learn that concept.

[Trillian]

Homosexuality and planned parenthood. Weird since if you have one, why would you have a need for the other?

[arthurus]

I know that GS in Michigan actively promotes lesbian relationships though the official words are weasly. There are websites with loads of stories by women telling about how they were brought to discover their true selves at GS camp. Someone showed me one of those a couple of years ago.

[arthurus]

Pretty openly, actually.

[fwdude]

The Girl Scouts went pro-Planned Parenthood many, many years ago. Many of their leaders are open dykes. They dove into the leftist cesspool WAY before the Boy Scouts did.

[Morgana]

GOOD GRIEF!

Mean to tell me Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was not available? He would have made waves that is for sure.