Scout's Honor
Bill McGurn ·
Feb 11, 2011 at 1:06pm
Turns out the Girl Scouts will not -- Not! -- take the pledge to lobby against global warming.
The pledge, published online, would have committed Scouts to “Inform my elected local, state, and federal officials about my views on environmental policies and urge them to support legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and promotes energy efficiency and renewable technologies.” According to CNSNews.com, the pledge was taken down after the conservative news site asked about it.
Apparantly not the first time our gals in green have wandered from the Norman Rockwell imagery, according to this article by National Review's Kathryn Lopez.
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May '10
Re: Scout's Honor
My daughter wanted to join, but I wasn't sure. I'd heard Girl Scouts supported planned parenthood. Then I saw they were handing out "sex guides" at the UN. So, this "pledge" doesn't surprise me too much. BTW I can't get the NR link to work.
Feb '11
Re: Scout's Honor
This link to the NR article should work.
Any organization of this size can easily have a few people pushing their own agenda and flying under the radar until someone takes notice. Even the PP incident makes me wonder how much is general policy and how much was the individual chapters.
All the same, when the time comes, I will take a long hard look before allowing my daughter to get involved with them.
Jun '10
Re: Scout's Honor
I like the Lopez article. 30 years ago I made a sales call at the Girl Scout headquarters in Manhattan. I encountered lush offices, execs with huge salaries, and incredibly (in my view) inappropriate literature. They were so darn agenda driven, so far removed from the scouting principles of my youth, that a wave of sadness swept over me. My scout leaders were always role models. They knew how to do everything, it seemed. Build campfires, teach us cooking and camping skills, demonstrate how to get community projects going by respectfully approaching the mayor, sew, chop wood, etc. The lessons varried from troop to troop, but the message was always the same -- don't be lazy, work hard, and be prepared, because in America you can achieve great things.
The litereature I saw was full of calls to "raise awareness" and practice "advocacy." Ummmm........do the scouts still do anything? Anything practical?
Now they teach girls with HIV to become "comfortable" with their status & enjoy their sexuality? Yikes.
When my daughter was a scout it really bothered me that only $.50 of each $4.00 box of cookies she sold went to her troop. The balance funds this nonsense.