Girl Scouts Affiliation with Plant Parenthood

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We’ve recently been made aware of a possible association Girl Scouts of America has with Planned Parenthood. It was a general allegation with nothing to substantiate it. If there is indeed such an affiliation we will no longer support GSA and our children will no longer participate. However, we don’t want to act on heresay. Does anybody have any hard facts on this subject? We would appeciate it. Thanks!
 
I remembered this question from EWTN and looked it up for you. Here is the quote from Judie Brown…

The Girls Scounts of America publish a handbook for counselors and troop leaders in which they condone sex education, discussions of sexual matters, and basically parrot a line we attribute to other groups normally associated with abortion marketing.

A packet of materials, containing attributed quotes from the manual, is available by request it, along with your mailing address, at jbrown@all.org

Judie Brown
 
Okay those links aren’t working…but just cut and copy them to the top of the page and push go…it should work. 😉
 
Some do and others do not. Go to www.all.org the American Life League and go under the Stopp and they will let you check your state and troop.

I have also heard that the top execs at the GS are lesbians, not sure if that is true or not.

God bless, chris
 
I was very distrurbed to hear this since I had assisted a local
troop in their fundraising efforts last year at Christmas. In
checking the map on the website I see that this council chose
not to answer the question. 😦 In this case I will have to turn
them down if asked again this year.
 
There are a couple of good alternatives out there for those whose local GS troops are not acceptable. Ten or more years ago, we stepped down from GS for this reason (planned barrenhood) and instead started a JCDA group, Junior Catholic Daughters of The Americas. Our JCDA group is one of the largest in Texas and does a variety of service projects, personal virtues development and skills growth, and fellowship activities, plus your basic camping out stuff too. Our girls love it until ropughly late high school, when their lives get too busy. Many of our graduates eventually return as CDA members. (CDA is like the Knights of Columbus, but for women.)

Contact your local CDA group and ask them if they sponsor a junior troop. If they don’t yet, maybe it’s time they do! www.catholicdaughters.org/

Another option is a group called Little Flowers. I am not involved with it but have heard only good things about it, here’s a link: www.eccehomopress.com
 
I recently learned of the connection between GSA and Planned Parenthood as well after doing some research after learning that a VP of the local PP group was selected to be the executive director of our local GS council. I sent an e-mail to the council disapproving of the selection, and I received a form letter back stating that the GSA is a secular organization and that personal politics won’t impact their leadership (I don’t buy it). There are many web links to news reports where the head of GSA said on national television that PP is one of the groups they partner with. I believe there is enough smoke around this issue to believe that there is a fire. I have asked my pastor to reconsider our parish’s affiliation with this group, and I will be looking into some of the groups mentioned in this post. Our daughters deserve better!
 
An update to this old thread -

My wife has begun a crusade, of sorts, to oust support for Girl Scouts at our Parish and hopefully throughout the Diocese. The bottom line is that our local council - Mid-Continent Council, has come back to us confirming their affiliation with Planned Parenthood for teen-based sex and relationship programs throughout the year and asserting their right to continue such affiliations going forward.

With this PP relationship, the taking of “God” out of their pledge (they allow for substitutions as appropriate), recommending no prayer during any meetings, and what appears to be a rather liberal (if not radical) feminist agenda in their program - I cannot see any reason any Catholic organization - school, parish or diocese, would support an affiliation – especially in light of Catholic and Christian, Christ-centered, alternatives.

What we have learned, however, is that there are many so-called “Catholic” supporters of Girl Scouts who see no problems with these items. Many of these, at least in our Diocese, also appear to be in the Youth Ministry office and on the local Girl Scouts Catholic Advisory board. Nonetheless, my wife is committed to taking the issue further and making sure this doesn’t just go away.

If anyone has any suggestions or can tell us what your Diocese or parish is doing about this, that would help. Pray, too.

Thank you,
HW
 
I strongly strongly strongly recommend that anyone who wants their daughter involved in something LIKE the Girl Scouts should look into the Little Flowers group linked to above.

It’s SO WONDERFUL!!!

The girls meet, they earn patches, but for things like love of God, love of others, honestly, obedience, piety, prayer…!! We have a wonderful sister who meets with the girls for their lesson each month, and our priest meets with the boys who have a “Blue Knights” group.

I can’t stand what the Girl Scouts have turned into. My daughters won’t join.

Read about the Little Flowers (obviously based on St. Therese!). You can’t go wrong with this group!!
 
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