Star Man
05-10-2012, 06:01 PM
Catholic Bishops Challenge Girl Scouts USA For Conflict With Church Teachings
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NEW YORK — Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive, as well as assertions that the Scouts associate with other groups espousing stances that conflict with church teaching. The Scouts, who have numerous parish-sponsored troops, deny many of the claims and defend their alliances. The inquiry coincides with the Scouts' 100th anniversary celebrations and follows a chain of other controversies.
Earlier this year, legislators in Indiana and Alaska publicly called the Scouts into question, and the organization was berated in a series aired by a Catholic broadcast network. Last year, the Scouts angered some conservatives by accepting into a Colorado troop a 7-year-old transgender child who was born a boy but was being raised as a girl.
Some of the concerns raised by Catholic critics are recycled complaints that have been denied by the Girl Scouts' head office repeatedly and categorically. It says it has no partnership with Planned Parenthood, and does not take positions on sexuality, birth control and abortion.
"It's been hard to get the message out there as to what is true when distortions get repeated over and over," said Gladys Padro-Soler, the Girl Scouts' director of inclusive membership strategies.
In other instances, the scouts have modified materials that drew complaints – for example, dropping some references to playwright Josefina Lopez because one of her plays, "Simply Maria," was viewed by critics as mocking the Catholic faith.
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I do not want to mock the Catholic faith, but I do here mock the Catholic Bishops. Mock, mock, mock. Attacking the Girl Scouts of America!?! That makes the Bishops mockworthy. Mockable.
The Catholic Bishops are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and now female child haters. You just have to wonder at the sanity of a group of grown men who wear dresses (the Bishops) attacking men who wear dresses (cross-dressing gays). When they attack a GSA troop for accepting a 7 y.o. transgender child, I ask where is the compassion that Jesus taught? Jon Stewart could have a field day with this. Good Catholic that he is, Stephen Colbert probably agrees with it. I feel disgusted and outraged.
Bishops, listen up! If you don't want to be mocked, don't do mockable shit.
Star Man
Downloaded May 10, 2012 from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/girl-scouts-catholic-bishops_n_1507133.html
NEW YORK — Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive, as well as assertions that the Scouts associate with other groups espousing stances that conflict with church teaching. The Scouts, who have numerous parish-sponsored troops, deny many of the claims and defend their alliances. The inquiry coincides with the Scouts' 100th anniversary celebrations and follows a chain of other controversies.
Earlier this year, legislators in Indiana and Alaska publicly called the Scouts into question, and the organization was berated in a series aired by a Catholic broadcast network. Last year, the Scouts angered some conservatives by accepting into a Colorado troop a 7-year-old transgender child who was born a boy but was being raised as a girl.
Some of the concerns raised by Catholic critics are recycled complaints that have been denied by the Girl Scouts' head office repeatedly and categorically. It says it has no partnership with Planned Parenthood, and does not take positions on sexuality, birth control and abortion.
"It's been hard to get the message out there as to what is true when distortions get repeated over and over," said Gladys Padro-Soler, the Girl Scouts' director of inclusive membership strategies.
In other instances, the scouts have modified materials that drew complaints – for example, dropping some references to playwright Josefina Lopez because one of her plays, "Simply Maria," was viewed by critics as mocking the Catholic faith.
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I do not want to mock the Catholic faith, but I do here mock the Catholic Bishops. Mock, mock, mock. Attacking the Girl Scouts of America!?! That makes the Bishops mockworthy. Mockable.
The Catholic Bishops are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and now female child haters. You just have to wonder at the sanity of a group of grown men who wear dresses (the Bishops) attacking men who wear dresses (cross-dressing gays). When they attack a GSA troop for accepting a 7 y.o. transgender child, I ask where is the compassion that Jesus taught? Jon Stewart could have a field day with this. Good Catholic that he is, Stephen Colbert probably agrees with it. I feel disgusted and outraged.
Bishops, listen up! If you don't want to be mocked, don't do mockable shit.
Star Man