[JohnHuang2]

Friday, February 20, 2004

Quote of the Day by Made In The USA

[risk]

http://www.ahgonline.org/

[Huber]

Ping!

[ScudEast]

A couple of questions from an interested foreigner.

1) "American Heritage Girls" - is "Heritage" a word that appeals to young people in America? It seems like a bit of an old person word to me. I'm a big fan of things with Heritage in the title but I'm a nostalgic old fart.

2) (frivolous I'm afraid) - Girl scout cookies - I had heard of these from various American films and always assumed the girls baked them themselves. I heard a rumour that they didn't - is this true?

[garylmoore]

The Boy Scouts have kept their values, the girlscouts have sold out.

[babyface00]

If these girls contracted out cookies as good as the Girl Scouts', (and sold them online!), I'd be a huge supporter (figuratively and probably eventually literally).

[Drawsing]

Something not mentioned here is how the Girl Scouts have put up little resistance to the homosexual agenda.

[Lil'freeper]

"Needless to say, we were stunned and realized that we could no longer participate in Girl Scouts,"

That moment, for me, came when I was a Senior scout in a little troop in rural AZ. The program emphasis in those days was firmly focused on career exploration which bored me terribly. I prefered camping.

One day some slick feminist executive-type from the Council drove up from Tucson and informed a Brownie leader (with whom I had long worked teaching her Brownies to camp in the backyard) that she wasn't the "type of role model the Council had in mind for the girls." Yes, the well-coifed urban snot fired a volunteer.

The "fired" leader was a homemaker of modest means, the wife of a cotton farmer, who attended church regularly with her large family, and gave every last spare minute (and $) to her Brownies- exactly the kind of role model young girls should be exposed to.

After that insanity, I vowed that any time or money I felt I owed to the scouting movement would be given to the BSA. It is wonderful that there is now an alternative to GSUSA.

[T Minus Four]

This is very interesting. My 12-year old was a Brownie for a year or so when she was little, but got bored. I was very surprised that in that year, she never learned a single song. My favorite memories of scouting involve belting out all the old camp songs, especially rounds.

Anyway, it seemed that it was very focused on environmental concerns. They were doing some studies called "Mother Earth, Father Sky" or some such. This raised a small concern about interfering with our basic Christian beliefs, but didn't seem to cross the line. What I found curious is that they didn't go outside and do things.

About the time she told me she didn't want to go any more, I began to hear about the GS's feminist agenda, so I gladly let her quit.

[philetus]

No doubt the homo's are trying to infiltrate the American Heritage Girls, as we post.

[magslinger]

Ping.

[Our man in washington]

I went to the Heritage Girls website and clicked around. I noticed that in some of the pictures, the girls were wearing dresses. Not in most of the pictures, but a few.

I then did an experiment. I then checked the Girl Scout website and all their prominent informational pictures had girls wearing nonfeminine clothing.

Okay, no one should be wearing a dress for a camping trip or for a day cleaning litter out of the stream. But it's interesting that these left-leaning organizations want to eliminate femininity from girls' lives. Any ideas why that is?

(I realize that the modern dogma is that any adult male who notices the attire of children is a pedophile. That's ridiculous. I'm no pedophile, but I think boys and girls should be taught how to be gentlemen and ladies, respectively. And that teaching includes knowing how to dress nicely when the occasion calls for it. Flame away.)

[Salvation]

I'll take "Camp Fire" any day over Girl Scouts!

[CARDINALRULES]

Ping -- this is what I was talking about a few weeks ago.