"Why would anyone want to team them up with Planned Parenthood at their age??"
Because pregnant Girl Scouts can bring in a lot more money than cookie sales do for PP. If your disgust is at me, it's misplaced. Do some homework and start to realize the sophististication of the campaign against virginity and for early promiscuity. I'm all for supporting our troops, just not through an organization that permits a stealth assault on innocence and traditional family values. And that's what's going on. Wake up and smell the napalm in the culture war....
Girl Scouts Embrace PP Agenda
Editorial by Judy Vatterott
It’s been almost 25 years since I wrote an article for The Life Advocate about the Girl Scouts. At the time (October, 1979) the archdiocese of Philadelphia had recently dropped its sponsorship of about 300 Girl Scout Troops with 8,000 girls. They cited numerous problems with several scout merit badges, especially the “Our Own Troop Women’s Badge” for girls 12 to 17.
Under the “Know our Bodies” section, girls were required to know “all about” sexual intercourse and pregnancy, including all methods of birth control and induced abortion. A suggested activity to earn this badge was to find clinics in their community that helped women “deal with” unwanted pregnancies. Another required visiting Planned Parenthood’s Teen Clinic rap sessions on Saturdays.
The “Our Own Troop Women’s Badge” also suggested that the girls visit a police station and ask an officer if he thinks prostitutes are criminals and if they can tour the jail cells.
Adult leaders were asked to read “Amazon Quarterly”, a journal stressing lesbian-feminist issues, and “A Gay Bibliography”, which lists books on homosexuality. This preoccupation with abortion and homosexuality should not have come as a surprise since GSA (Girl Scouts of America) national leaders included Gloria Scott, an avowed lesbian and member of the National Women’s Political Caucus and Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), a group with only two major thrusts: pro-abortion and pro-lesbian.
Fast forward to 2004.
These days, teens are encouraged to visit Planned Parenthood’s web site: teenwire.com for advice, but parents should be advised to check out this site themselves. Then they would surely pull the plug on their computer or at least install an anti-porn filter.
Today, at the national level, some Girl Scout leaders and consequently an unknown number of their councils, have persisted in their ties to Planned Parenthood.
American Life League’s STOPP International recently conducted a survey of 315 Girl Scout councils nationwide, asking whether they had a relationship with Planned Parenthood. Of these, 249 did not answer, 17 admitted ties with Planned Parenthood and 49 said they did not.
In Texas, the report shows that 5 councils are not affiliated with PP, 1 council does have a relationship with PP, and 13 councils declined to answer. According to STOPP, the purpose of the investigation is to protect young girls from the harms of PP.
The Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council, which oversees troops in the Waco area and 13 other counties, not only allowed its logo to be used on materials for two sex-education seminars sponsored by Planned Parenthood, but gave a “woman of distinction” award to Pam Smallwood, Planned Parenthood of Central Texas (PPCT) executive director, at their banquet last year.
In addition, for the past nine years this Council has co-sponsored PPCT’s “Nobody’s Fool” summer sex promotion program. Last July, PPCT distributed copies of their kiddie porn book, It’s Perfectly Normal, to girls in grades 7-9 who attended this conference. The Life Advocate (June/July,‘98 and in June/July ’03) carried detailed reviews of this disgusting book. (The Life Office has copies available for your review.)
As a result of this ongoing, disturbing pattern, John Pisciotta of Pro-Life Waco began asking people to e-mail Bluebonnet executives and tell them they would no longer buy Girl Scout cookies and why. He is calling this “fast and abstinence” rather than a “boycott”. Pisciotta says he realizes there are many Girl Scout councils around the country that have no ties to Planned Parenthood, but urges parents of girls involved in scouting to research their own daughter’s council and, if they find such evidence, work to convince them to sever those ties. Otherwise, they might consider following the example of at least nine other Waco families who have withdrawn their daughters from the Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council.
For more information, Dr. Pisciotta can be reached at: john_pisciotta@hotmail.com.
And to think, when I was a Girl Scout, (which seems like a million years ago), the big scandal back then was that the national Girl Scout office allowed each troop to keep just one penny from each box of cookies we sold.
UPDATE
As a result of the cookie boycott and the national media coverage it generated, the Bluebonnet Girl Scout Council’s Board of Directors voted to discontinue its nine year co-sponsorship of Planned Parent-hood’s annual sex ed conference. It should be noted however, that the board’s decision affects the Bluebonnet Council only.
At the national level, the tie between Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood continues. Indeed Girl Scout Chief Executive Officer Kathy Cloninger confirmed the fact that they partner with many groups, including the pro-abortion YWCA as well as Planned Parenthood, which she said brings “information-based sex education programs to girls.”
Another Scout spokesman Ellen Christie, offered additional insight: “We are not a Judeo-Christian or religious organization at all. We never have been.” She also said the organization does not discriminate and welcomes lesbian girls and scout leaders.
Parents may want to know that there are alternatives to Girl Scouts, including American Heritage Girls, which was founded in 1995 and calls itself a “program of character building”. It offers merit badge programs, service projects, leadership opportunities and outdoor experiences.
[Information for this article was gathered from The Ryan Report 2/04, The Houston Chronicle,4/13/04, WorldNetDaily 2/25/04 and The Caleb Report, March/April, ‘04.]UBl