kcs_hiker 10 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I have a 13 year old daughter who is mightily envious of her 'little' brother getting to go to scout camp and all... but I would never allow her to join an organization like this (not that I expect that these girls will be doing things like the boys do at scout camp). sorry.. it just looks to me like another org set up to make a political statement, and IMO using children to further politics is the worst kind of heinous. Link to post Share on other sites
Eagledad 2779 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 >>it just looks to me like another org set up to make a political statement, and IMO using children to further politics is the worst kind of heinous. Link to post Share on other sites
GoldWinger 10 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 "As much as I complain about GSUSA, as a leader and parent, AHG creeps me out mightily." Why? Do they have the girls dancing with goats while wearing diaphanous gowns under the full moon at midnight? Link to post Share on other sites
evmori 11 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Girls and goats! Sounds like an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" Link to post Share on other sites
GoldWinger 10 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Not quite what I was thinking. Link to post Share on other sites
fleetfootedfox 10 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 It is interesting that the AHG seems to have an organizational structure more similar to the BSA with troops being chartered by tax exempt organizations. GSUSA troops tend to be more neighborhood-organized. I think the GSUSA lost control due to their loose organization and unwillingness to take any stand on moral issues. Troop leaders are more free to push an immoral or amoral agenda than they would under a different organizational structure. Link to post Share on other sites
Merlyn_LeRoy 72 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Scouter760 writes: I think the GSUSA lost control due to their loose organization and unwillingness to take any stand on moral issues. I think they took a stand on moral issues by not excluding people for having "unacceptable" religious views, and by keeping sexual issues out of the program. Link to post Share on other sites
fleetfootedfox 10 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Merlyn_LeRoy, is using Planned Parenthood to provide sex education what you would call "keeping sexual issues out of the program"? Link to post Share on other sites
Merlyn_LeRoy 72 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Merlyn_LeRoy, is using Planned Parenthood to provide sex education what you would call "keeping sexual issues out of the program"? Where have the Girl Scouts done that? Link to post Share on other sites
Nike 94 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Re: Goats and diaphonous gowns. Check Spiral Scouts. Re: PP and GSUSA. There have been local level and national level associaitons in the past. However, down here in the South we have to fill out a "Sensitive Topics" permission form for anything more in depth than the circulatory system. Re: AHG creeps me out. I checked them out as an alternative to GSUSA and found their organization to be more like BSA but they were too jingoistic, "hearth and home," and Christian-right for me. I just wish BSA could start Girl Guides America or GSUSA would come back to thier senses. Link to post Share on other sites
GoldWinger 10 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 "BSA but they were too jingoistic, "hearth and home," and Christian-right for me." Nothing wrong with any of those three from where I sit. Link to post Share on other sites
Nike 94 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Well, GW, start a troop!! (Because the people posting here just don't have enough going on. ) Link to post Share on other sites
GoldWinger 10 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 "Well, GW, start a troop!!" AHG creeps you out? No wonder. You're encouraging middle aged men to start troops. I've already been investigated eight ways from Sunday for security clearnaces and professional and personal licenses but I'm sure I'd still make mothers across the country nervous. Link to post Share on other sites
Merlyn_LeRoy 72 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Nike writes: I just wish BSA could start Girl Guides America or GSUSA would come back to thier senses. What would constitute coming back to their senses? Link to post Share on other sites
Eagledad 2779 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 >>What would constitute coming back to their senses? Link to post Share on other sites
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