Little Girls, Future Powerful Women
Mary Valle: Someone at UCSSB HQ has finally clicked on the links to anti-Girl Scout material on the web (for instance, here and here). Continue Reading →
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Wherever Two or More Women Are Gathered…
…the Catholic Church seems to find “radical feminist” ideology. Even if the gatherers are cookie-hawking tweens. And members of a non-Catholic organization. Not affiliated with the Church in any way.
To the ever broadening category of Catholic Church vs. Women, we add today’s entry: the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has formalized it’s disapproval of the Girl Scouts of the USA with an official inquiry. It’s hard to not giggle at the USCCB following up its harassment of the women religious with the tweens with badges, but there you have the church’s priorities clearly demonstrated.
The Washington Post, via an AP article by David Crary, quotes Girl Scouts’ spokewoman Michelle Tompskins:
“For us, there’s an overarching sadness to it,” Tompkins added. “We’re just trying to further girls’ leadership.”
Exactly.
Read more on the Girl Scout inquiry here, and here. Continue Reading →
Daily Links 19 November 2004
Crowds Irate at Seer’s Failure to Die A Hindu seer, chief cleric of the Sriguru Ashram in east India, was berated by a crowd of 15,000, for failing to die Continue Reading →