Negative publicity isn’t good for cookie sales, and the recent resignation of a Girl Scout associate who was asked to remove a pro-life t-shirt, coupled with a scathing rebuke of the Scouts’ liberal ideology by an internationally known scholar is only adding momentum to calls for the public to take a pass on the do-si-dos this year.
According to Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, 21-year-old Renise Rodriquez, a religious studies major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has just resigned from her position as an “experience associate” for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona. Her decision comes after an incident involving a pro-life t-shirt she was wearing one day when stopping in the office to pick up some materials. Even though she was off-duty, she was told to immediately change her shirt or turn it inside out if she was planning to stay at the office.
Rodriquez says she was “shocked at the way (she) was treated” and decided to resign after a day of consideration.
“Parents around the country should be outraged at this story,” Colin Hanna said in a press release. “Not only are the Girls Scouts moving farther and farther away from the values our young women need, they are squashing those who do find a cause they believe in and defend. These young women should be making up their own mind about their core beliefs, rather than simply subscribing to what the rest of the world tells them to.”
Cathleen Cleaver Ruse, senior fellow at the Family Research Center and wife of Austin Ruse, founder of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, couldn’t agree more.
She published a stinging rebuke of the organization’s radical agenda in a major national newspaper, saying she actually contacted a neighbor, the mother of a Girl Scout, to say that she wouldn’t be buying cookies this year.
“It’s a sacrifice, because I love the cookies and the cuties who sell them, but enough is enough,” Ruse writes.
She went to say that she experienced the group’s flakiness as long ago as the 1970’s.
“When I was a Brownie, I was told to recite some chant and step over a mirror. If I had known the word, I would have called it ‘pagan.’ Even an unchurched girl of seven could smell a rat.”
She then chastised the organization for allowing a boy who believes he’s a girl to become a girl scout.
“Perpetuating this cruel charade on the little boy and forcing little girls to participate in it is ‘inclusiveness’ to the Girl Scouts,” Ruse writes. “To others, it’s child abuse.”
But it shouldn’t be surprising because the Girl Scouts have a cross-dresser working right in the own front office.
“Ten years ago, Girl Scouts media relations officer Joshua Ackley was frontman for the ‘homopunk’ band the Dead Betties,” Ruse reports. “In publicity shots, he’s dressed in women’s clothing, and in music videos, he appears to be naked and feigning masturbation. . . . Today he issues press releases, posts news and views on the Girl Scouts’ blog, and tries to mollify moms who are concerned about Girl Scout ties with Planned Parenthood.”
As a matter of fact, it was Ackley who facilitated the Girl Scouts’ “no adults allowed” workshop at the United Nations – the workshop in which the Planned Parenthood sex brochure “Healthy, Happy, and Hot” was offered.
She goes on to remind the public that several years ago, a quarter of the Girl Scout councils nationwide openly admitted to partnering with Planned Parenthood. When questioned about the affiliation on NBC’s Today Show, Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger didn’t hesitate to confirm it.
“Heard enough?” Ruse asks. “There’s a lot more at 100questionsforthegirlscouts.org.”
Ruse applauded Renise Rodriquez for standing up to the Girl Scout powers-that-be. When she was told to turn her shirt inside out or leave, she chose to leave – for good.
“And so should we all,” she advises.
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