http://bryankemper.com/2012/01/09/pro-life-college-student-quits-job-with-girl-scouts-after-being-ordered-to-take-off-a-stand-true-pro-life-t-shirt-while-off-duty/
What a courageous young person and from AZ at that!
Another reminder why the Republican pitch to Hispanics this year should be that a vote for a Democrat is a vote to fund the killing of babies in the womb. It doesn’t get any simpler than that.
Girl Scouts don’t believe in free speech.
Pray for America
If I were an Arizona businessman I would hire her in a heartbeat.
First, if her employer had a policy that t-shirts with messages were not allowed, she was wrong.
Second, GSA is NOT a Christian organization and it has worked with Planned Parenthood on preparing materials for girls. This young woman should have known that. If she feels so strongly about the wrongness of abortion, she shouldn’t have been working there.
She is not a hero for standing up. She is a fool for not knowing the organization she worked for better.
It’s been 15-16 years that I was teaching at a so-called Christian school. I had a school administation-approved, pro-life bulletin board in my class. Mind you, no pics, just bumper stickers, clips from NRLNews... I was called to the headmaster’s office and somehow I knew what was coming, so I searched a passage in my Bible and took it to the meeting. I was told, just like I expected, that I had to take my bulletin board down. I answered by reading Jer 20:9 “his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary from holding it back, and I could not”. I told him if he wanted to take the bulletin board down, he would have to send somebody else, or do it himself. I reckon I was lucky they let me finish the semester, rather than being fired on the spot.
If she was working for the Boy Scouts of America and she showed up at a local Council office wearing such a T-shirt they would have told her exactly the same thing. Organizations such as the BSA and the GSUSA should not be in the business of projecting political or socially controversial messages. The fact that we happen to agree with the message doesn’t change that.
And yet, the Boy Scouts of America are castigated for not allowing homosexuals access to the Scouts!
Brave young lady. A shame she didn't go on the record as to why she was leaving, though.
Almost every workplace in the US has rules, similar to this. Try showing up to YOUR workplace with a shirt like that; and see how it goes. Most companies have a dress code that explicitly states that wearing shirts with a political/ religous or ‘hate’ message are prohibited while on company property.
She wore that shirt to work, to elicit an response. She got one, now she’s crying about it.
When you get a paycheck, you forfeit some of your ‘rights’. While at work, you don’t have the right to freely associate, you can’t write whatever you want, whenever you want, you can’t talk about whatever you want, whenever you want. You can’t decide to hold a religous ceremony any place you want, whenever you want.
Welcome to the workforce. You trade some of your personal freedoms for a paycheck. If at any time, you feel your personal freedoms are worth more to you than your paycheck; you are free to leave.
Chances are that if she wore a shirt with a Pro-Abortion message, she would have faced the same scenario. For those who have never held a job before, here’s a hint: “The Workplace is not the place to discuss politics or religion”.
Tell the Super, “There is no written policy that I’m violating and I’ll keep the shirt on.”
Follow-up:
“Which part of the Girl Scout charter supports abortion?”
The only way to deal with nazis, bolsheviks, or American socialist revolutionaries is head on,,,, refuse to obey their bullcrap orders, and expose them. REFUSE,, and go about your business. Make them call the police. Smile and tell them they will be viral on youtube tomorrow.
When the hell in this country did it become acceptable to tell someone to turn a shirt inside out because it mentions prayer? Who is this commissar who told her to do so?
GSA stopped being pro-girl years ago.
Boycott Girl Scout Cookies!
We currently do Boy Scouts but I will have hard time paying dues to Girl Scouts if my daughter wants to join when older. Yes, the local charter may be nice local neighbors with similar morals but the national level of Girls Scouts seems a mess if you do a little digging. I hope some of these alternatives that are more inline with the BSA grow - American Heritage Girls
http://speaknowgirlscouts.com/
She discovered who her friends aren’t. Why work for them? No doubt somebody will try to bully her into thinking she has no options but to play by the rules. Sounds beastly. There are different callings and different masters. At a certain point in time human persons become saints. They become the heroine that they weren’t the day before. They choose to sacrifice and find a different freedom under a new master. Let other clones be drones for cash and security. Someday, you too, may kick that golden calf.
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