Posted on 07/05/2013 2:01:22 PM PDT by NYer
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Weeks after their male counterparts stoked controversy by changing their rules to allow openly gay members, Girl Scouts USA made history in their own way after some 90+ of their members and their families marched in San Francisco’s recent Gay Pride Parade - the first time they have ever done so.
Girl Scouts of Northern California announced their participation in the parade in a post on their official Facebook page, accompanied by a photo of the girls in uniform carrying a Girl Scouts banner.
"I want them to be able to tell their children they were a part of this," mom Del Gregor, 53, who was at the parade with her 11-year-old Girl Scout daughter, told USA Today. "By the time they're grown up, their kids won't believe there was a time when gay people couldn't get married."
Another mom, also present with her 11-year-old daughter, described the occasion as “historic."
Dana Allen, communications manager for Girl Scouts of Northern California, confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com that San Francisco Girl Scouts participated in the parade.
"The San Francisco Girl Scouts participate in many parades that celebrate the diversity of San Francisco," she said. "Girl Scouts is inclusive and reflects the communities we serve."
However, not all were pleased with the decision to march in the parade. Seventeen-year-old Sydney Volanski, an ex-Girl Scout and founder of SpeakNowGirlScouts.com, has been a vocal critic of what she says is Girl Scouts' increasingly socially liberal tendencies. She told LifeSiteNews that she believes "there exists an intriguing discrepancy here between what the Girl Scouts say and what they do."
"GSUSA has promised they have 'established standards that do not permit the advocacy or promotion of a personal lifestyle or sexual orientation,'" she said, "yet here is undeniable participation in an advocacy campaign. Unfortunately, this is not their first broken promise."
Sydney's mother, Christy Volanski, also expressed concerns about what the young Girl Scouts may have been exposed to at the parade.
She said that given the Girl Scouts pledge to "build girls of courage, confidence and character," she was "really surprised" that the organization would endorse participation in an event "that features vulgar male dancers dressed only in underwear, a lesbian statue of liberty (courtesy of the ACLU float), free condoms, and more."
"As a mom, I'm very concerned that the Girl Scouts feel this is an appropriate event for any age. And further, what does all of this have to do with scouting?" she said.
However, Girl Scouts spokeperson Allen dismissed any concerns about age-appropriateness, pointing out that the parade includes a section for youth and family, and that parents were required to sign permission slips for participation.
The decision to march in the parade came days after the United States Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against a lower court ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8, the voter-approved amendment that had upheld traditional marriage in the state. In the wake of the decision gay marriages have already resumed taking place.
Asked if Girl Scouts supports gay marriage, Allen responded, "Because Girl Scouts is a very diverse organization, we also respect the many points of view on political and social issues."
This is not the first indication that Girl Scouts favors a more liberal take on gay issues. Their policies have long stated that they value "diversity and inclusiveness" and do not discriminate against "sexual orientation."
In 2011 the Girl Scouts announced that they would allow a cross-dressing seven-year-old boy to join the Girl Scouts.
The scouting organization has come under heavy fire in recent years from conservative leaders for its close ties to Planned Parenthood and other left-leaning organizations.
In 2004 GSUSA’s then-CEO Kathy Cloninger told NBC’s Today show, “We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with our church communities, with YWCAs, and with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country, to bring information-based sex education programs to girls.”
In a 2004 survey by STOPP International, around 25 percent of GSUSA councils who responded said they partnered with Planned Parenthood in some way. Sixty-five out of the country’s 249 councils responded to the survey.
But while Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has disputed claims that it has ties to Planned Parenthood, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), with which GSUSA is affiliated, has taken an aggressive stand in favour of “safe” abortions, as can be gleaned from a search of their website.
In 2010, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) reported that WAGGGS had girls participate in a United Nations workshop that distributed the controversial Planned Parenthood sex education pamphlet “Happy, Healthy, and Hot”, which instructs young girls not to think of sex as “just about vaginal or anal intercourse.” WAGGGS disputed the report at the time.
Last June, Catholic Bishop James Conley of Denver warned that participation in the Girl Scouts risks opening young women to the pro-abortion agenda because of the organization’s approach to sexuality and “reproductive freedom.”
Evil is on the march in America
It must be countered, lest it consume us all
>>That did not take long.
This iteration of the cycle took about 50 years, beginning with the so-called “Sexual Revolution” of the 60’s.
The previous iteration was highlighted by the “Roaring Twenties”, and the following great depression.
The Empire’s desire to abominate nature can be seen through out history, all the way back to the Chaldean, Babylonian, Egyption, Roman... Eunuchs who were breading SLAVES for their theocratic royal owners.
The next time some girl scout tries to sell me some cookies, I’m going to tell her because she belongs to an organization that embraces the homosexual community and planned parenthood, I’ll just buy Nabisco.
Should’ve left the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts alone and started their own damn Gay Scouts.
It is cool to be popular
Churchill was right about a lot of things.
He also opposed the NyLon perverts who funded the military industrial complex of Nazi Germany... though of course not in quite those words.
Their parents are disgraceful.
But then, I remember some Boy Scouts, in uniform, participating in the opening of a Democrat convention, and getting booed by the delegates, so I could be wrong.
Parents should be locked up for child abuse.
I’m not surprised to see the Girl Scouts engaging in this kind of activity. For decades, the GSA has been acting behind the scenes, manipulating events designed to cripple our moral culture. Hopefully, the public may now see the GSA for what they truly are and have been.
[Should’ve left the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts alone and started their own damn Gay Scouts.]
That would’ve meant leaving the needle intact on the Moral Compass.
Anything that points to the ERRORS in their idolatrous and prideful assertion that God is dead - and they are gods, must be destroyed.
Another liberal org to avoid, 12 over priced cookies and bad principles being taught our children , as if school is not bad enough!
Our girls going to join American Heritage Girls
AHG Oath:
“I promise to love God,
Cherish my family,
Honor my country,
and Serve in my community.”
AHG Mission:
“Building women of integrity through
service to God, family, community and country.”
AHG Vision:
“American Heritage Girls is the premier national
character development organization for young women that
embraces Christian values and encourages family involvement.”
the politicization of children - another form of child abuse in my book
Girl Scouts... Future Clamlickers of America.
Enjoy it while you can. The fags will inevitably try to take it down too.
And fags is exactly the right word.
The bulldykes are jumping up and down with great excitement. More young talent for them to sample. Don’t believe me? In Eve Ensler’s awful play “The Vagina Monologues” there is one scene where an older woman seduces a young girl. No leftist is outraged about it. The pederasts are rubbing their hands with glee about recent developments.
the GSA is for all the leftist perv stuff
kids are sex objects to leftists
It’s happened, because most people are intentionally ignorant about it and are duped into supporting it. It started during the second half of the 1800s with hatred against families (misogamy) cloaked under hatred against men. The Great Depression stalled them for almost four decades after the so-called progressive political activities of about 40 years (through the ‘20s), and they started again.
The second wave of that bowel movement in our country has been going on for about 40 years...a little longer in states like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc. And for those very few of you who pay attention, it’s only part of a larger class war. There’s no broad conspiracy but only the way spoiled people go in time.
And for those very few who do care enough to pay attention, be aware that it’s a small part of a recurring class war. For the most part, the only people who indulged much in heavy drinking and immoral sex during the ‘20s were celebrities, other wealthy socialites and fresh immigrants from southern Europe. They’ve already outlawed the unestablished from doing most truly productive work that is legal and honorable. They won’t stop here. And if you look at the last names of political/upscale folks along with their recent genealogical histories, you’ll see that they’re not more than three or four generations descended from Europe.
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