Girl Scouts
St. Louis archbishop urges cutting ties with Girl Scouts
By Nancy Cambria — February 22, 2016
Archbishop Robert Carlson wrote that Girl Scout resources and social media "highlight and promote role models in conflict with Catholic values, such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan.”
Britain’s Girl Guides drop oath to God
By Trevor Grundy — June 19, 2013
(RNS) Britain's Girl Guides -- the equivalent of American Girls Scouts -- are dropping their reference to God in their loyalty oath.
Boy Scouts shift on gays wouldn’t change rules on atheists
By Brian Shane — January 29, 2013
The Boy Scouts' potential policy shift to allow gay members and leaders raises a question about another group shut out of Scouting: atheists, who decline to say the Boy Scout Oath because it references God.
Jews push back against Scouts over policy banning gays
By Bruce Nolan — November 6, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) For nearly a decade, hundreds of Boy Scouts have learned the virtues of the Ten Commandments on an annual hike to local churches, synagogues and mosques. But this year, Touro Synagogue says it's no longer willing to take part because the Scouts deny membership to gay troop leaders and gay adolescent Scouts. By Bruce Nolan.
Catholic bishops to scrutinize Girl Scouts
By David Gibson — May 11, 2012
(RNS) The nation's Catholic bishops are reviewing the church's ties to the Girl Scouts of America after complaints that some of the venerable organization's programs and policies might run afoul of church teachings on contraception and abortion. By David Gibson.
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