The Girl Scouts “Are a Changing”...The Girl Scouts once were considered to be a good wholesome organization for girls from K through college and beyond as leader/volunteers.  Some may disagree with the wholesome part now however. 

 One of the new guidelines in Girl Scouts  is for the girl’s to look inside themselves for moral guidance.  Suppose moral behavior has not been instilled in the child because it has simply not been taught. Where are they going to look?

 Here’s one of the Girl Scout’s new values: “Girls learn to quiet themselves, taking ‘full stop moments’ where they connect with a silence that is perfect and pure, an internal blank canvas…The girls ‘find their own compass’ through a model that starts looking within to find their purpose, values and vision and ends with clear strategies, action and planning.”

Telling girls to look inside themselves for direction, especially teenage girls, is like advising them to wear a blindfold while driving.  Political correctness and moral relativism have found a home with the Girl Scouts.

In 1995 the girls made the word God optional in their official promise.  The word is still there but with an asterisk.  “On my honor, I will try: to serve God* and my country, to help people at all times, and live by the Girl Scout Law.” The asterisk after God can be interpreted in many ways, depending on religious beliefs.

The asterisk is explained at the bottom of the page:  "The word 'God' can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs.  When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word 'God' with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate."This would include Wiccan, Asatru, Druid, Native American, etc.
 
Awards from a Wiccan website, “Covenant of the Goddess” are acceptable by the Girl Scouts and may be worn on their uniforms. The “Over the Moon” Award for ages 8-11 and the “Hart and Crescent Award” for ages 12-18.

“Exercises, from the Senior Scout Manual, include:  how to work through how the Girl Scout Promise and Law relate to life.  One example given is: ‘Supporting a decision to pull life-support system from a dying relative’ and ‘ending a pregnancy’.  Some suggested exercises to address contemporary issues include: organizing an event to make people aware of gender bias or helping to organize an Earth Day celebration.

Various Girl Scout councils have had or do have a “cozy relationship” with Planned Parenthood. According to Concerned Women of America, one Girl Scout leadership manual “gives visits to health clinics like Planned Parenthood as an acceptable option for Brownie troops. Remember Brownies are 6-8 years old. A council in Waco Texas sponsored annual half-day sex-ed programs including: sympathetic treatment of abortion, masturbation and homosexuality.

With all these changes a group of parents in Ohio had enough and started an organization with about 100 members in 1995. American Heritage Girls, now has over 7,000 members in 31 states