Posted on 03/11/2010 3:35:48 PM PST by wagglebee
They want to make sure they have future clients.
I once read that there are 17 girl scout councils affiliated with planned parenthood.
One more reason I no longer can support the girl scouts and is why I am pulling my girls out.
Why weren’t they sued for child porn?
Agreed!
And this is part of the reason my daughter is in ballet instead.
Govt run health care will inflict the same violation to every child in the Country.
Well, looks like my daughter won’t be a girl scout then. I will miss the cookies though.
I finished my last box the other day, no more EVER.
No, not at the moment. I just signed up this evening to be a Tiger Cub leader. James will start Scouts in the fall.
I expect this news will drive off some of the leaders and families from the troops we had in the homeschool association.
The part about the sexual indoctrination doesn’t much surprise me. Afterall, what would you expect? Girl scouts in my view is nothing but an organization that exploits girls to support a bureaucracy. What percentage of the average troops efforts revolve around selling their cookies? 25%? 50%?
Cui bono?
It certainly isn’t going to the troop. About 50 cents goes to them. The cookies cost maybe 75 cents to produce. A box costs $3. Where is the rest going?
Cui bono?
If you’re going to pimp out girls to sell cookies, how much more of a philosophical leap is it to pimp them out in the more traditional sense? A sexual indoctrination agenda should come as no surprise.
I wonder what percentage of each box of cookies the Girl Sluts sell goes to killing babies?
Also sick,sick people at the UN. We also need to defund them and boot them out *pronto*! And treat Planned Parenthood for the subversive outfit it is!
My daughter, a Catholic, won’t put her daughter in Girl Scouts and instead has put her in Awana.
Is it time to boycott the Girl Scout cookies?
I personally think it would be a shame to dismiss every Girl Scout troop based on the actions of some. If my children (both in scouts for years) were exposed and taught any of that crap, I'd rank them out in a nano-second. But the girls have been been busy attending their meetings at a local church that sponsors them, collecting food and funding for a local crisis center, participating in community cleanups and we intend to send a supply of donated cookies to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hopefully, we'll have enough raised to also give the girls a nice little party at the end of the year. No doubt, they are exposed to much worse at their local public schools.
So the next time you see a little Girl Scout helping in their community or selling Girl Scout cookies, instead of assuming the worst, why don't you ask them (or their leaders) what they are supporting and what they are learning. One of the interesting things about Girl Scouts is that the girls are the ones that get to decide who and what groups they support with their fund raising. As leaders, we can offer suggestions but the girls have to make the final call. ;) Not some yahoos in New York or wherever.
“One of the interesting things about Girl Scouts is that the girls are the ones that get to decide who and what groups they support with their fund raising. As leaders, we can offer suggestions but the girls have to make the final call. ;) Not some yahoos in New York or wherever.”
That’s good that the girls get to decide where their share of thw money goes. But it sidesteps the real issue; the bulk of the revenues from cookie sales go right back to the central organization. The troops organize and sell the cookies and do the bulk of the work. And for that the troops receive a pittance. It’s the “yahoos in New York or wherever” who are profiting from this arrangement.
I can't stress the importance of getting involved with your (general you) child's activities and getting to know the people influencing your child whether it be Girl Scouts, dance or sports. I just hate to see a good organization summarily dismissed based on what some are doing. We can find examples of people holding ideals we disagree with in just about any group or activity whether it be Little League, dance or whatever. I choose not to let my child play sports in leagues where the coach stresses winning at any cost. I don't allow my daughters to dress like hoochiemamams for dance programs, and I certainly won't allow an organization to promote abortion or sex to them. The worst thing I've seen in all the years I've been involved is they have apparently jumped on the Green Bandwagon. My Junior was reading from her book yesterday and comparing the energy consumption between the US vs. Bolivia, some African countries, India, China, etc. What kind of GS leader would I be if I didn't tell her to go look up the some other facts about those same countries like average life span, access to education, employment not to mention electricity and running water! ;)
It’s flabbergasting. Honest to God, when I was growing up in an average middle-class home in the 50s (and attending Girl Scouts), the two worst things imaginable were reading Classics Comics instead of the real book that had been assigned, and saying a swear word. Anything else fell completely below the acceptable standard. Our graduating class from high school in the 60s almost had graduation cancelled because ONE kid had a beer in his car in the vast school parking lot on the day of the graduation rehearsal. My mother’s highest praise and worst threat were the same words: “I’m going to tell your grandmother.”
I have actually sat down and tried to explain to my grown son what it was like to grow up in a Christian society. His eyes glaze over. It can’t be explained.
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