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Girl Scout Promise (You've got to be kidding me!)
Beloit Daily News

Posted on 03/07/2006 8:27:08 PM PST by Jotmo

Apparently this is "Girl Scout Week", and the local paper (Beloit, WI) has a full page add for the event. The Girl Scout Promise is printed therein.

What follows is a verbatim quote from the paper.

On my honor,
I will try;
To serve God*
and my country,
To help other people
at all times,
And to live by the Girl
Scout Law.
*The word "God" can be interpreted a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is OK to replace the word "God" with whatever your spiritual beliefs dictate.

SO I've decided to help them out and save them some printing costs by reworking the "Girl Scout Promise" to fit their actual beliefs.

On my honor,
I will try;
To serve (Fill in blank)
and my country,
To help other people
at all times,
And to live by the Girl
Scout Law.

Glad to be of service.

Unfreakinbelievable


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: girlscout
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1 posted on 03/07/2006 8:27:10 PM PST by Jotmo
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To: Jotmo

Surprised they didn't post editorial comment regarding the word country also.


2 posted on 03/07/2006 8:29:55 PM PST by saganite (The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
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To: Jotmo

Lookie! It's the marxist scouts!


3 posted on 03/07/2006 8:30:24 PM PST by x5452
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To: Jotmo

Unlike the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts have had lesbian scoutmasters for years.

I wouldn't let my daughter get within 500 feet of a GSA campout.


4 posted on 03/07/2006 8:31:23 PM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Jotmo

This has been the GSUSA's policy for quite some time. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts O.K.'d this, under the specific understanding that the GSUSA was to do this only to allow Scouts to substitute some other deity or spiritual force, and that they were not to use this as a back door to allow atheists to join.


5 posted on 03/07/2006 8:33:14 PM PST by RonF
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To: Paloma_55

They have become a recruiting ground for feminists, and by extension, lesbians. We will not allow our doughtier to have anything to do with them. Never have.


6 posted on 03/07/2006 8:34:20 PM PST by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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To: Jotmo

"Girl" is kind of demeaning. Should be "future strong intelligent womyn."

"Scout" is too warrior-like. How about "cosmic entity of peace"?


7 posted on 03/07/2006 8:34:25 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Jotmo
What's the big deal, it is simply the Boy Scout promise, tweaked for gender.

And like the Boy Scouts, the only requirement is a belief in God; a higher power; ...

The Scouts tend to be Christian, however, nothing say they cannot be Jewish, Muslim, ....

It's the one real issue atheist have with the Scouts. The are offended by something they don't believe in. Go figure.
8 posted on 03/07/2006 8:34:46 PM PST by mlstier ("The Right to Privacy does not trump the Right to Life" -- Bill O'Reilly)
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To: RonF

"whatever your spiritual beliefs dictate" sure sounds like an open door policy for atheists to me.


9 posted on 03/07/2006 8:37:06 PM PST by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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To: Jotmo
Unbelievable is right. Ugh. BTW- can I sue the Girl Scouts for constantly supplying me with Thin Mints and making me eat them? :o)


10 posted on 03/07/2006 8:38:49 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: x5452

On my honor,
I will try;
To serve 'The PARTY'
and my country,
To help other people
at all times,
And to live by the Girl
Scout Law.


11 posted on 03/07/2006 8:39:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: RonF

On my honor,
I will try;
To serve SATAN
and my country,
To help other people (get to Hell)
at all times,
And to live by the Girl
Scout Law.


At least their cookies are good.


12 posted on 03/07/2006 8:39:38 PM PST by fizziwig (Democrats: so far off the path, so incredibly vicious, so sadly pathetic.)
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To: BenLurkin
For further information on the Girl scouts see the Soviet PIONEERS.


13 posted on 03/07/2006 8:41:00 PM PST by x5452
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To: mlstier
The Boy Scouts do NOT allow you to change the word "God' in their promise. No one can stop you from believing what you want, but the word "God" is required.

Girl Scouts are NOT in any way affiliated with Boy Scouts, by the way.

14 posted on 03/07/2006 8:41:19 PM PST by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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To: Jotmo

If you are Jewish, and a Boy Scout, you are required to recite the Boy Scout pledge, but may not allowed to say His name aloud.

Then what do you do?


15 posted on 03/07/2006 8:41:21 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Jotmo

What, no * after "country" too? I guess they are still holding out hope for Hillary.


16 posted on 03/07/2006 8:43:48 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: Jotmo

I'm not getting what the problem is.


17 posted on 03/07/2006 8:47:15 PM PST by dbwz
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Don't know. I don't have my Scout Leader handbook anymore.


18 posted on 03/07/2006 8:47:48 PM PST by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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To: dbwz

If you don't get it, there's no use trying to explain it to you.


19 posted on 03/07/2006 8:48:54 PM PST by Jotmo ("Voon", said the mattress.)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

the aclu can ruin almost everything good and great about our country.


20 posted on 03/07/2006 8:48:58 PM PST by genghis
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