Over the years, I have had many people encourage me to have my daughters participate in the Girl Scouts. My initial reason for not joining was the constant sales required by the girls in the troops. There was the annual cookie sale and then, at least in earlier times, some kind of calendar sale going on. Although I'm sure they did more than compete for selling the most of anything, all I ever heard about from other mothers was the cookie sale competition. How much of the profit went back to the individual troops, I can't say but it seems like the people at headquarters pull in good salaries.
Later on, I checked out a Girl Scout manual and didn't like the path they were taking on health and morals. Today, my avoidance of the group for my children was rewarded:
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/31/girl-scouts-join-planned-parenthood-at-huge-pro-abortion-conference/
I found this horribly sad. I've heard rumors of this sort of activity but to see it in print and know for a fact that the Girl Scouts support the wholesale murder of babies, is sickeningly. I've had arguments from well-meaning Catholic mothers who have daughters in the organization. They claim that they don't allow this discussion in their groups and keep it clean and moral. I have no doubt of that but how is the profit from their fundraisers ultimately used? And isn't a person judged by the company they keep/support.
It is disheartening, however, to see girls actually selling their cookies after Mass in some parishes. Either the pastors are uninformed or they just don't want to make waves. Given the current change in the Boy Scouts' bylaws, it will be interesting to see how many chose Faith over values.
