Posted on 01/18/2012 5:07:16 AM PST by IbJensen
January 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When our sweet little neighbor in her brown camp uniform came knocking on our door this year, we had to say no. I told her mother that I didn’t want to hurt Katie’s feelings, but I couldn’t support the Girl Scout cookie sale anymore because I’d learned too much about the organizers’ agenda, primarily their support for abortion and partnership with Planned Parenthood.
I worried that my “political” stand would cause uneasiness between us, but her response put me at ease: “Well,” she said, “they do use unpaid child labor to make their sales, and the troop only gets 10 percent of the revenues anyway.”
Or is it? Cathy Ruse argues that Girl Scouts' ties with abortion giant Planned Parenthood, and a morally "progressive" agenda discounts it from receiving our support.
True. According to the Girl Scouts’ website, the lion’s share of the money goes not to the troop but to bureaucrats up the chain of command in multicounty councils. The national office gets a piece of the pie, too, in the form of royalties based on gross annual sales volume - about 200 million boxes per year.
It’s a sacrifice, because I love the cookies and the cuties who sell them, but enough is enough.
I remember the Girl Scouts being flaky way back in the early 1970s. When I was a Brownie, I was told to recite some chant and step over a mirror. If I had known the word, I would have called it “pagan.” Even an unchurched girl of 7 could smell a rat.
Last year, the Girl Scouts decided to admit boys who dress as girls. When asked to admit a cross-dressing 7-year-old boy, a Colorado troop leader demurred, explaining to his mother, with tact and irrefutable logic, that her son couldn’t be a Girl Scout because he has “boy parts.”
The troop leader was chastised by the mom as being insensitive and promptly was overruled by the Girl Scout top brass, who, in a statement said, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.” Perpetuating this cruel charade on the little boy and forcing little girls to participate in it is “inclusiveness” to the Girl Scouts. To others, it’s child abuse.
But it shouldn’t be surprising: The Girl Scouts have a cross-dresser in the front office.
Ten years ago, Girl Scouts media relations officer Joshua Ackley was frontman for the “homopunk” band the Dead Betties. In publicity shots, he’s dressed in women’s clothing, and in music videos, he appears to be naked and feigning masturbation. The video for “Hellevator” portrays a woman being strangled in an elevator shaft while Mr. Ackley flashes a menacing grin.
Today he issues press releases, posts news and views on the Girl Scouts’ blog, and tries to mollify moms who are concerned about Girl Scout ties with Planned Parenthood. In fact, it was Mr. Ackley who facilitated the Girl Scouts’ “no adults allowed” workshop at the United Nations - the workshop in which the Planned Parenthood sex brochure “Healthy, Happy, and Hot” was offered, although part of Mr. Ackley’s job is to deny it.
Click “like” if you want to end abortion!
It wouldn’t be a surprise if someone like Mr. Ackley was behind the Girl Scouts’ recent scandal: a guidebook that tells girls to check with the leftist, George Soros-funded Media Matters before believing what they read in the news.
As boys send in their orders for Brownie beanies and tights, the Girl Scouts have declared 2012 to be “The Year of the Girl,” announcing that they will be “working to break down societal barriers that prevent girls from leading in their own lives.” What barriers? What does “leading in their own lives” even mean? Forgive me for thinking it has something to do with sex or abortion.
Several years ago. a quarter of the Girl Scout councils nationwide admitted to partnering with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s abortion giant. When questioned about the affiliation on NBC’s “Today Show,” Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger had no compunction in confirming it.
The Girl Scouts have been “pro-choice” for years, but now they’ve been caught supporting promiscuous sex for girls. The Planned Parenthood sex guide offered at that “girls only” U.N. meeting offered this advice on Page 11: “Some people have sex when they have been drinking alcohol or using drugs. This is your choice. ... If you want to have sex and think you might get drunk or high, plan ahead by bringing condoms and lube or putting them close to where you usually have sex.”
Heard enough? There’s a lot more at 100questionsforthegirlscouts.org.
Earlier this month, a young Girl Scout employee, Renise Rodriguez, made the mistake of stopping by the office to do extra work on her own time in a T-shirt bearing the words: “Pray to End Abortion.” A supervisor ordered her to turn the shirt inside out or leave the office. She left, for good.
So should we all.
Bump.
Whole Foods carries “Fudge Mint” cookies, from Back to Nature.
They’re better than G.S. Thin Mints.
Some neighbors came by with their daughters yesterday selling the cookies. My daughters used to sell all kinds of stuff for school and our neighbors always buy. I had no choice but to buy. On the other hand, both my daughters got pulled from girl scouts years ago because I didn’t trust the organization. Gotta choose your battles.
Some neighbors came by with their daughters yesterday selling the cookies. My daughters used to sell all kinds of stuff for school and our neighbors always buy. I had no choice but to buy. On the other hand, both my daughters got pulled from girl scouts years ago because I didn’t trust the organization. Gotta choose your battles.
I’ve seen a really nice building in mid-town Manhattan with a huge Girl Scouts sign out front. I assume this is some kind of national office.
Are New York liberals making the decisions on support for these policies?
If you’re going to do this, let me recommend to make sure the reason why is explained in 10 words or less to the girl scout in question.
Let me explain please.
I grew up in a very Democrat family. In Boy Scouts or the youth group at church one year (don’t remember which) we held fundraiser door to door.
Plenty of people said yes, and no, but one guy in particular got through to me.
When I told him the cause was UNICEF, he looked at me and said he was not going to donate because he thought that was a communist cause.
And that was it.
I had never even thought about anything like that, at that young age. Here I was living my naive life surrounded by people giving me one point of view, and here was a dissenting opinion. Presented to me matter of fact, and I didn’t know how to process it.
But I remember it to this day.
Even if you do buy Girl Scout cookies, perhaps you might tell that girl scout your beliefs.
It might make a difference.
We decided not to enroll our daughter in the Girl Scouts over these issues. I guess it’s time to skip the cookies as well. Sad cookie lover is sad.
So sad.....But so true. GSA “sold out” a LONG time ago. So far..the BSA has NOT done so.....yet..But if November goes bad...
Looks like GSUSA have been carrying a really ripe one here.
But FReepers smelled the rot 15 years ago, when GSUSA walked away from the Boy Scouts of America and their fight in the James Dale case to keep pederasts out of the BSA ranks.
You don’t have to buy the cookies. Donate money to the troop :-)
my daughter and her friend has just pulled out of the girl scouts and we informed the scout leader.
The woman is a very Christian conservative good woman and she had no clue what so ever about cross dressers, planned parenthood etc
We have to get the message out and if the older girls do come then I think it does not hurt to make it a point as to why one is not buying them.
If the girl is small then she must be with her parent or which I will inform the parent.
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“You don’t have to buy the cookies. Donate money to the troop :-)”
...wish I’d thought of that. Next year.
well i am on a diet anyways...but it is very hard for me to say no to the little ones!
bflr
And I’ve got a question: Why does the GSA need such a honking big bureaucracy anyway? If folks want to have a GS-like troop, maybe they should just start their own, call it something else, and do the kind of activities they’d like to do. Without a bunch of bureaucrats breathing down their necks, dictating an agenda, and skimming off their money.
I understand. If I have to choose between making a little girl happy or denying the GSA six dollars, I’ll do the former.
You might apply the same philosophy to religion.
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