Girl Scouts as young as kindergarten age can earn a rainbow-striped “fun patch” by celebrating Pride Month through activities such as drawing, creating an LGBTQ+ music playlist, or attending a Gay Pride parade.
According to the Girl Scouts’ website: “The Girl Scout LGBTQ+ Pride Month Celebration Fun Patch is designed for Girl Scouts of all levels and their leaders to honor LGBTQ+ history, to celebrate the diverse cultures and identities of LGBTQ+ people, and to acknowledge the many contributions of the LGBTQ+ community has made and continues to make across our nation,” Girl Scouts of the USA states on a webpage for its multicultural community celebrations.
In a document directed to troop leaders and guardians, the Girl Scouts of the USA details how child participants can earn the “LGBTQ+ Pride Month Fun Patch.”
The Daisy, Brownie and Junior Girl Scout levels, which consist of younger children, must participate in three pride-related activities to earn the patch. Older Girl Scouts at the Cadette, Senior and Ambassador levels must participate in six activities to earn the patch.
In addition to attending a pride parade with their troop or family, the document lists a barrage of other things scouts can do to earn an LGBTQ+ fun patch, including identifying five books by LGBTQ+ authors to read, sketching a portrait of a member of the LGBTQ+ community whom they admire and writing a paragraph about why they chose them, and creating rainbow flags. T artist.
But before starting the activities, Girl Scouts must “familiarize” themselves with the appropriate terminology, such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer-identity. Those terms and concepts are provided by a gay activist group called GLSEN (formerly known as Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network).
The document also contains a glossary of LGBT terms, with definitions from the Human Rights Campaign, another advocacy group, designed for elementary school children. It identifies transgender or trans as “when your gender (how you feel) is different than what doctors/midwives assigned to you when you were born (girl/boy or sex assigned at birth).”
The American Family Association (AFA) says Girl Scouts USA’s pride month focus is another sign of the youth organization’s moral decline. The Girl Scouts received backlash years ago for entering the LGBT culture war by announcing that it would allow boys who identify as girls to join.
“The Girl Scouts has been on a moral decline for a long time, supporting abortion, Planned Parenthood-type sex-ed—and now, the LGBT agenda,” AFA says in an article on its website.
AFA started an online petition urging the Girl Scouts organization to change its policy, arguing that “this policy undermines the trust that parents place in GSA’s leadership to make wise decisions and the obligation the GSA has to protect their daughters.”
“This means girls in the organization will be forced to recognize and accept transgenderism as a normal lifestyle,” the petition stated. “Boys in skirts, boys in makeup and boys in tents will become a part of the program. This change will put your innocent girls at risk.”
“Adults are willing to experiment on our kids—both the boys who are confused and the girls who will wonder why a boy in a dress is in the bathroom with them,” the petition added.
The petition is no longer available online, but it garnered at least 35,000 signatures before it was taken down.
Meanwhile, the general public may not know how revenue from Girl Scouts cookie sales is used–but Holly Mead of Liberty Counsel wants to clear that up. Mead says most people don’t realize that the annual sale of cookies does help fund local troops and councils.
“However, the troop only keeps an average of 10-20% of that money,” she explains. “So, that means the Girl Scouts USA collects a royalty payment based on its trademark [and] a lot of that money goes towards pushing these agendas.”
As reported by AFN, American Heritage Girls—a faith-based alternative to Girl Scouts—has grown successfully over the past few years. AHG, which teaches and celebrates solid Christian values, boasts troops in all 50 states and 15 different countries.
In addition to the troops, thousands of volunteers help the girls to grow in their faith and nurture it as they go out into the world as adults.
