Kansas archdiocese severs ties with Girl Scouts and urges end to cookie sales

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Saying that Girl Scouts is “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel,” the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is severing ties with the organization and switching its support to a Christian-based scouting program.

“I have asked the pastors of the Archdiocese to begin the process of transitioning away from the hosting of parish Girl Scout troops and toward the chartering of American Heritage Girls troops,” Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann said in a statement released Monday.

“Pastors were given the choice of making this transition quickly, or to, over the next several years, ‘graduate’ the scouts currently in the program. Regardless of whether they chose the immediate or phased transition, parishes should be in the process of forming American Heritage Girl troops, at least for their kindergartners, this fall.”

American Heritage Girls, founded in 1995, has become an option for those who say Girl Scouts has become too liberal and has relationships with organizations that support abortion rights and do not share traditional family values — allegations the Girl Scouts deny.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article147857619.html#storylink=cpy

Pharisees...

[atreides1]

1. American Heritage Girls

Also known as The Handmaidens of God...

[Achilleaze]

3. "This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will."

"It will become ordinary." - author Margaret Atwood

[Stuart G]

2. What more needs to be said....???? k and r.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. What's the most fascist name we can think of for our Christian girls club?

Hmmm... how about "Trump Youth"?

No, too fascist.

How's "American Heritage Girls"? That's pretty fascist.

I like it.

[MineralMan]

8. How about 'American Comfort Girls?'

[COLGATE4]

12. Trumpjugend?

[lunasun]

5. Pedophile scandals hidden for decades but cares about young women with virtues they decide

[blogslut]

6. Good.

The Girl Scouts are a wonderful, progressive secular organization and shouldn't be associated with messy, old-fashioned fusspots anyway.

[MineralMan]

7. Off the record, he probably said:

"The Girl Scouts are being trained to become uppity women who don't understand that men must always be in charge of everything. That would interfere with the patriarchy of the Church and lead to demands that women should assume leadership roles in our precious church, instead of becoming compliant nuns, which is the only role suitable for good Catholic women. Women were created by Our Lord to serve the needs of men, provide comfort to men, and to bear men's children."

Something like that, I would guess. Antiquated old patriarchs!

[Demsrule86]

9. Want make sure you bring your kids up to hate...GOP.

Sort of like the Hitler youth program...teach them hate while they are young.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Idiotic

Since these Heritage Girls have been around for 22 years, how come i've never heard of them before?

Not much of an alternative to the Girl Scouts if they've existed for 2 decades and all i ever see are young girls in GS uniforms selling cookies and being nice, polite, respectful young ladies.

[Solly Mack]

11. " traditional family values" the catch phrase of bigots.

[LongTomH]

13. For a lot of people, this toon is spot on!!!

It's from one of Doc's toon collections today, of course!

[n2doc]

14. And from direct experience, that applies double to those who have attended Catholic Schools! n/t