. . RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: CATHOLIC : CHILDREN: GIRLS : CHILDREN: ORGANIZATIONS : WAR ON WOMEN: Vatican Investigating Girl Scouts for Links to Safe-Sex Education Groups . . Vatican Investigating Girl Scouts for Links to Safe-Sex Education Groups May 15, 2012 10:35 AM EDT Barbie Latza Nadeau Daily Beasthttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/ vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-
safe-sex-education-groups.html . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/bl5dr63 . .Should there be any doubt left about how the Vatican views women after clamping down on American nuns late last month, the leaders of the billion-strong Catholic Church have now set their sights on the devilish Girl Scouts. No, its not about the sinful cookies, but a claim that the Girl Scouts are associating with questionable groups that the church believes do not strictly adhere to their tenets. In particular, the Vatican believes that several groups the Girl Scouts endorse, including Mecins Sans Fronties and Oxfam, both of which cater to the poor but also advocate safe sex and condom use to stop the spread of AIDS, might be a bad influence on the impressionable young women.
.In late March the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a stern letter to the Girl Scout leadership advising them of the official Vatican inquiry, which is being conducted by the Bishops Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, under the direction of Kevin Rhoades, a bishop from Fort Wayne, Ind. The Bishops letter follows a complaint lodged by Indiana state Rep. Bob Morris last February, in which he complained to the Republican Caucus that the Girl Scouts and their sister-group World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, known as WAGGGS had forged a secret bond with Planned Parenthood and should be stopped. You will not find evidence of this on the GSA/WAGGGS websitein fact, the websites of these two organizations explicitly deny funding Planned Parenthood, he wrote in a letter dated Feb. 18, 2012. Nonetheless, abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.
. snip .There is no official link between the Girl Scouts and the Catholic Church, but since many troops hold their meetings in church facilities, the Vatican can easily justify its inquiry. They are looking at "possible problematic relationships with other organizations." If they determine that membership in the Girl Scouts does not jibe with Catholic teachings, they could either demand that the Girl Scouts change their practices or, in lieu of that, recommend that young Catholic girls drop out of the Girl Scouts.
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