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The Girl Scouts' new radicalism - The Girl Scouts Change Religions... No God, but Wiccans and Al Gore

By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com

The strange and distressing descent of the Girl Scouts into secularism and moral relativism calls to mind something Rush Limbaugh has said: any conservative organization or social code of conduct, if it is not actively and aggressively defended, will tend over time to become liberal.

In a sense, liberalism is like rust – slow and insidious, infiltrating into the fiber of things and eating away at them, hollowing them out.

This is the process Marcia Segelstein describes in her article about the changing values of the Girl Scouts.

The Girl Scouts of the USA have been on a steady, well-documented leftward slide for many years. (More on that later.) But this summer, the organization is about to take a giant leap even further in that direction.

The Girl Scouts organization is changing in two ways: (1) Old things that are disappearing, and (2) New things (systems of thought and belief) are appearing.

The most important old thing which is disappearing is the notion of the Judeo-Christian God.

... back in 1995, the Girl Scouts made it optional to include the word "God" in their official "promise." So it shouldn't be a great surprise that now girls are supposed to look within, discover a blank canvas, and find their own values. This isn't God-optional. This is anti-God.

Here's "The Girl Scout Promise," according to the GSUSA website:

"On my honor, I will try:
To serve God* and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law."

The asterisk is explained at the bottom of the page: "The word 'God' can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word 'God' with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate." ...

... getting back to being anti-God, there is the matter of the "Covenant of the Goddess." It's a Wiccan website which, among other things, describes their awards program. There's the "Over the Moon Award" for ages 8-11 and the "Hart and Crescent Award" for ages 12-18. The awards are offered "to any young person...who is a member of any nature-oriented religion (Wicca, Druid, Asatru, Native American, etc.)." What does this have to with the Girl Scouts? The Girl Scouts recognize these awards, which may be worn on the Girl Scout uniform.

Other things are being added: ideas about lesbianism, global warming, and abortion advocacy courtesy of Planned Parenthood. Conspicuously missing are critical examinations of the statism and fraudulent science of global warming alarmism, and the sordid devotion to eugenics that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, carried to the end of her life.

Thankfully, some parents are aware of the changes inside The Girl Scouts and are keeping their daughters away from them.

In 1995, when "God" became optional in the Girl Scouts' promise, a group of parents in Ohio had had enough. Disillusioned with the increasingly secular leanings of the Girl Scouts, they started their own organization with about 100 members. American Heritage Girls today has chapters in 34 states, with over 6,500 members.

Here is the American Heritage Girls' oath:

I promise to love God,
Cherish my family,
Honor my country,
and Serve in my community.

You'll note that there's no asterisk next to "God."

Our Take

There's something deeply unsettling about the changes inside The Girl Scouts which Segelstein describes – the false coating of sentiment that tries to disguise their path into nihilism as something kind and compassionate. The appropriate reaction to it is to stay as far away from it as possible.

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