ST. LOUIS (MO)
New York Daily News
BY GERSH KUNTZMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, February 26, 2016
News item: The Archdiocese of St. Louis has come out swinging against (wait for it!) the Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scouts, huh? The same badge-earning, cookie-selling, wholesome Americans who have been “helping girls discover their strengths, passions, and talents” for 104 years?
In a Feb. 18 letter to parishioners, Archbishop Robert Carlson accused the Scouts of “a troubling pattern of behavior” that includes “promotion of abortion rights” and “role models in conflict with Catholic values, such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan,” support for “Amnesty International (and) OxFam,” “sex education,” and “inclusion of transgender and homosexual issues.”
The Girl Scouts, he concluded are “becoming increasingly incompatible with our Catholic values (and) the total well-being of our young women.”
Carlson has a point, I guess. His diocese has long had a different approach to the well-being of kids. In 2004, the Archdiocese settled 18 of 48 lawsuits against perv priests.
Two years ago, it settled another case against a priest who allegedly raped a girl for four years, starting when she was 5 years old.
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