Posted on 01/22/2012 12:44:36 PM PST by NYer
Girl Scouts will no longer be able to meet at a local church because of a connection with Planned Parenthood.
Several Girl Scout troops in Chantilly, Virginia have been banned from meeting at a local Catholic church and a neighboring school.
St. Timothy Catholic Church says that scouts won’t be allowed to meet or wear their uniforms on church property. The edict also applies to the adjacent St. Timothy School, which enrolls students from preschool to eighth grade.
The decision stems from what the church calls an affiliation with Planned Parenthood by the Girl Scouts parent organization, The World Association of Girl Guides.
A spokesman for the diocese released a statement that says in part:
“Every pastor in the diocese has the responsibility to determine how best to use their parish facilities, consider the requests of outside groups, and reconcile such requests with the needs and mission of their parish community.”
The regional girl scouts council says it will make sure the troops affected can find a new home.
Aside from the fact that the Girl Scouts have been taken over by radical feminists and lesbians and are preaching a very extreme agenda, they're no fun either.
My daughter was briefly in the Girl Scout troop at her school. No camping, no hiking, not even nature walks. I tried leading a simple short day hike, and the little darlings complained all the way that their feet hurt or they had chipped a nail. I arranged for the girls to earn their Civics badge by visiting the courthouse and the General Assembly, got our state representative to agree to welcome them and squire them around (he's a really nice guy). But all the mothers kept coming up with excuses why they couldn't go . . . turned out they were afraid to go downtown. I explained that I had arranged parking in a secure deck, that the General Assembly was in session and the Capitol police were on every corner, it was still no go. What a bunch of wussies!
Of course, to be painfully honest, part of the reason was that the school is located in a very trendy suburb of Atlanta (Dunwoody - the place that everybody makes jokes about: "How can you tell when a Dunwoody housewife is in mourning? Black tennis dress." "How does a Dunwoody housewife call her kids in to supper? 'Get in the car!!'") You never saw such a bunch of helpless, do-nothing hothouse flowers in your life.
The day after my daughter turned 14, she had her paperwork turned in to join the local BSA Venture Crew. We never looked back -- Philmont, Northern Boundary canoe trail, skiing trips, ropes courses, hikes on the AT, whitewater kayaking, etc. She earned her Outdoor Bronze Award, got her BSA Lifesaving certificate, and had a blast. I became an Associate Advisor and I had a blast too.
The Boy Scouts have been exploited like any group involving the upbringing of children has. The parents and adults in charge have been ready and willing to fight the good fight without involving the boys who would otherwise be used as pawns. In their case the weapon of choice for the enemy was pedophelia.[ and similar cultural ideas.
Those in charge of the Girl Scouts, the parents and adults in charge are willing to use the girls as pawns. Mothers who claim ignorance or are otherwise unwilling to face the fact that their daughters are working for the cause of killing thw unborn are enablers.
Planned Parenthoood would provide them a room, as they should, but the smell of death might get to too many poeple and force the silly moms to face the truth and act like those in charge of the Boy Scouts.
We reached that point with the Episcopal Church. For a long time, we thought we could just keep our heads down in our little local parish and ignore what the national leadership was doing.
Doesn't work. The fish rots from the head down, and by the time the nastiness got to us it was far too late to stop it.
You take a good look at the printed material that the Girl Scouts produce for the girls. My daughter is now 23, but when she was in there was a lot of pretty radical stuff in there, especially about sexuality and 'choices'. Ugh. And you might want to think twice about sending your girls away to Girl Scout camp unsupervised.
The BSA will welcome your girls age 14 and up in Venturing or Explorers. And there is no nonsense in BSA. Two deep leadership rule is strictly enforced, and no far left radical politics taught under the guise of "citizenship", either.
Most of the kids around here join the Sea Scouts.
Both male and female and it seems like a good bunch of people.
Investigate. Your argument is the same as many. Good sources state that all troops donate to the central GSA. If you are not sure then you best be. Your girls are working for and sending money to somewhere you don’t know. Email Johnette Bencovic.
Protecting kids from contributing to PP is not the same as punishing them. Duh!
If the girls knew where their money was going instead of pretending like all the ignorant or passive aggressive feminist mothers that the money is going to some good organization that exsited in the past but has been overrun insidiously by knowledgeable, active feminists with a cause, perhaps they would drop out themselves, that is, if they have not yet been socialized to the feminist cause,and don’t you want to know this?; and they would not call it punishment.
You could find out whether their money or any portion of it goes to PP, laundered or not, and you ought to know this. Then bring them on a tour of a PP facility and ask them to decide if they’d like to continue working for this cause. You know, obsrve an abortion, if they are assisting in its funding.
Ask PP to provide a meeting room for the girls, they are paying for it, instead of pressuring the Catholic Church, who is never ever going to knowingly contribute to abortion in any way.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
And get to a Little Flowers group.
Levi-Strauss. Bah!
Actually, we have a couple of ships here on the two big lakes, Lanier and Allatoona. But it's just not the same . . . .
For this church to allow the meetings on their property would send a message of acceptance of Planned Parenthood and their trafficking in homicide.
Very good news.
Throwing girls out to make room for little boys?
Little Flowers is, indeed, an excellent organization.
Girl Scouts are different. There are a lot of open lesbians in their management and I’m not sure they really care about the local leadership...that said, lesbians generally don’t go after young girls, so I don’t think this is dangerous, but it might not be the role model you want. And Americanism never seemed to be a part of it.
The GS also got into “urban scouting” years ago, which meant aiming their programs at “urban youth” (black girls) whose major “need” appeared to be contraception. To my knowledge, the Boy Scouts don’t have all of these sex-ed programs and furthermore, when one of my daughters had a brief experience with GS, she said she didn’t want to go ahead because it wasn’t what she had thought it would be (adventure, challenges, etc.). Later she said they spent all their time talking about what we would call “social issues.” So it’s not the same as the Boy Scouts.
I love it! Your experience (and your daughter’s) was exactly the same as mine!
Punish might be the wrong word. This church or pastor is not letting the GS assemble at their location. All I’m doing is not buying some cookies. Maybe management will change when enough social and financial pressure is put on them. You and your kids sound wonderful. God Bless.
May God bless and keep the pastor of St. Timothy’s.
Punish is quite the wrong word.
the girls are being used and abused by their parents and the GSA whom I do not allow to punish me with guilt for not buying cookies from their girls who, by and large, do not care about selling cookies. I would have to be convincede otherwise.
Perhaps you should start,instead, a Heritage Girl or Little Flowers group for your daughters.
The seduction-of-young-teens meme that is one of the themes in "The V----a Monologues" is perhaps not as common among female homosexuals as among males, but it's there.
Just in case there’s any denial on this thread:
There’s this, posted today:
Obama Celebrates Roe vs. Wade Decision, 54 Million Abortions
Life News ^ | 1/22/12 | Steven Ertelt
If we find one more person with our experience, in the words of Arlo Guthrie, “it’ll be a Movement! The Alice’s Restaurant anti-GSA movement!”
You wouldn't be punishing the kids if you joined the boycott. The adults who are needlessly shoving the issues of sexual perversion and abortion into children's organizations for their own selfish purposes are to blame.
I'd be curious what your attitude would be if the Girl Scouts' parent organization embraced Satan Worship, Slavery, Communism, Bestiality or other such controversial subjects -- even though your own local troop did not. Would you still stay involved?
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