The Girl Scouts of the USA is set to offer a four-part “racial equity” training series to volunteers and parents focusing on “internalized racism” and “white supremacy culture.”
The 111 year-old organization created to serve America’s young women appears to have adopted Critical Race Theory, the divisive ideology that has taken root in America’s schools and corporations. The four part series, set to begin on December 13, will start with a virtual lesson titled “Foundations in Racial Equity,” before launching into “Foundations in Internalized Racism” a month later on January 16.
“Understanding and Decentering White Supremacy Culture” will take place on February 5, and will be followed by the final lesson, titled “Navigating Change, Power and Equitable Decision Making,” in late March.
“These D.E.I. Racial Equity workshops are designed for participants to engage in building a learning community, developing shared language and analysis around diversity, inclusion, and equity, deeply interrogating race,” a description of the sessions obtained by The Daily Wire reads. “Participants also interrogate structural racism and its historical construction while reflecting greatly on the way it manifests in our individual experiences, organizational dynamics, and systemic outcomes.”
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The lessons will be held through <a href="https://youtu.be/dpLjjBguL1U?feature=shared">GS Learn</a>, a training platform for Girl Scout volunteers and family members of Girl Scouts.
The Girls Scouts did not respond to a request for comment on the trainings.
The decision to offer “racial equity” lessons mired in the dogmas of Critical Race Theory comes after the Girl Scouts announced earlier this year that scouts could earn an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/girl-scouts-push-lgbtq-agenda-with-new-pride-patch">LGBTQ+ Pride Month Fun Patch</a>” if they attended a pride parade, memorized a poem written by an author who identifies as LGBTQ, or “read about the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and its importance to the LGBTQ+ community,” writing a poem of their own about the event.
The Girl Scouts have also published an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/girl-scouts-push-anti-racism-guide-that-claims-color-blindness-perpetuates-racism">anti-racism guide</a>” inspired by Critical Race Theory that claims color-blindness “perpetuates racism” and that young children show a “bias towards whiteness.” The guide instructs parents to talk to their children about racism, even implying that parents who refuse may be perpetuating unequal “justice, health, and education systems.”
The upcoming racial equity training sessions will be held in conjunction with the Equity Paradigm Group, a North Carolina-based consulting firm that <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-equity-paradigm">characterizes itself</a> as “a group of diversity practitioners, adult learning facilitators, researchers, organizers, change agents, and passionate social justice activists who are dedicated to evolving the way in which organizations approach their work.”
“We ground our work in the historical construction of race as a system of advantage to analyze ourselves, our actions, and to identify the underlying, implicit assumptions and biases that hold us back,” the Equity Paradigm Group states.
The consulting firm <a href="http://www.theequityparadigm.com/">notes</a> that their training sessions cover a variety of different topics, including “Strategies for applying a Intersectional Racial Equity Lens,” “Defining and Pursuing Liberation,” and “Naming &amp; De-centering White Dominant Culture.”
The Boy Scouts of America have also pushed leftwing worldviews on race, announcing in 2021 that aspiring Eagle Scouts would have to earn the &#8220;<a href="https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/citizenship-in-society/">Citizenship in Society</a>&#8221; merit badge. The guide for merit badge counselor — the adults who walk scouts through the process of earning the badge — <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/05/boy-scouts-continue-their-decline-into-wokeness-with-new-critical-race-theory/">directs readers</a> to resources that bash colorblindness, denigrate Christopher Columbus, and celebrate the LGBT movement.

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Girl Scouts can now collect a patch for attending a Pride celebration, studying &#8220;LGBTQ+ history,&#8221; or creating art that celebrates leaders from the &#8220;LGBTQ+ community.&#8221;
The “LGBTQ+ Pride Month Fun Patch” can be earned through participation in several different activities from a list of twenty recommendations, most of which seem designed to help promote the controversial agenda.
“Attend an LGBTQ+ Pride celebration in June with your family or troop,” a <a href="https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/gsusa/forms-and-documents/activity-zone/all-ages-levels/multicultural/LGBTQIActivities.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> from the Girl Scouts says. It goes on to encourage Girl Scouts to “(r)ead a children’s book featuring LGBTQ+ characters.” 
Girl Scouts can also create “rainbow flags to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month” or “(m)emorize a poem … by a LGBTQ+ poet.” Another recommendation reads, “Draw a map of the United States and mark on it 6 LGBTQ+ historical landmarks and read about why they are important.”
&#8220;Read about the Stonewall Uprising in 1969 and its importance to the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Write a poem about that historic day.&#8221;
The Pride Month 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,” the Girl Scouts of the United States of America states on its <a href="https://www.girlscouts.org/en/activities-for-girls/for-every-girl/multicultural-community-celebrations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
Meanwhile, the document also provides a glossary of terms, which defines “queer” as “a way to identify with and celebrate people of all gender identities and all the ways people love each other.”
“Transgender” and “trans” are defined as: “When your gender identity (how you feel) is different than what doctors/ midwives assigned to you when you were born (girl/boy or sex assigned at birth).” 
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The Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts were recently <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GirlScoutsEMass/posts/pfbid02F376LcN6dUGzDp4p7tXqs8Xwrn5vA2nuvdiAXFcWcbmFhKKKWbFrkcLxwB7doSS8l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pictured</a> marching in a Pride parade, while the post’s caption reads, “We center diversity, belonging, and inclusion by welcoming everyone who identifies as a girl, transgender boys, non-binary youth members, and adults of all genders.”

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The Girl Guides of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148705587/canada-girl-guides-brownies-racism-racialized-embers-name-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> a new name for one of its groups on Wednesday in an effort to be more “inclusive.”
Instead of “Brownies,” the seven- to eight-year-old age branch of girls in the Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) will now be called “Embers.”
“This wasn’t just about a name or its origin. This was about the fact that girls experienced racism and felt that they weren’t welcome in Girl Guides,” Jill Zelmanovits, the CEO of Girl Guides of Canada, <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/Documents/GGC/media/media-releases/GGC_Branch_Name_Announcement_Media_Release_Jan2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release.
“We heard from many current and former members and even members of the public who understood why we had to make this change. Over the last couple of months, families have signed up with Girl Guides for the first time because changing this name means Girl Guides is more inclusive for their daughters,” Zelmanovits noted.
The Girl Guides announced in November that they were acting to find a different name for the branch after current and past members said the “Brownies” title “caused harm and was a barrier to belonging for racialized girls and women,” according to the release.
The name “Embers” will be fully incorporated by September and Girl Guides is <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/GGC/branch_name_change.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requesting</a> that members not be dressed in clothing with the old name on it after the first of September “when representing GGC.”
“With the new Embers name, we hope even more girls will see Guiding as a place where they can just be themselves, grow their confidence and explore their talents and interests,” Zelmanovits said. “By taking action and changing the name to Embers, Girl Guides is living our promise to ‘take action for a better world’ and we are showing girls that what they say matters. This is something I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of.”
In 1914, the Brownies were started in England as girls looked to create a group like the Scouts. Initially, they went by the name “Rosebuds,” according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64243976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>.
After they <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/web/Documents/GGC/media/media-releases/GGC_Branch_Name_Change_Media_Release_Nov2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they were going to change the name in November, there was a request put in to members to weigh in and cast a vote online to pick an updated title. The two choices were &#8220;Embers or Comets,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/world/americas/girl-guides-canada-embers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The Girl Guides of Canada first realized that some people didn’t like the name “Brownies” after the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 resulted in widespread protests and riots around the world, according to Zelmanovits, per the Times.

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Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, has given a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/madeleine-mccann/article-11328009/84-5M-MacKenzie-Scott-gift-shows-confidence-Girl-Scouts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staggering</a> $84.5 million to Girl Scouts of the USA.
The massive donation is the biggest one the organization has gotten from one person since they were established over one hundred years ago in 1912.
Scott divorced Amazon executive chairman and founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, bringing her worth to $31.6 billion. She also has a 4% share of Amazon, which has made her one of the richest women on the planet.
The Girl Scouts has been struggling since the COVID pandemic, which resulted in fewer members. The group will reportedly use the money to help volunteers and employees, as well as make camp locations more durable against weather events, and enhance the science and technology schooling for its younger scouts. It also wants to incorporate diversity and inclusion efforts, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1129638080/girl-scouts-mackenzie-scott-donates-85-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
Young members in the organization dropped around 30% in 2019-2020 to 2021-2022.
&#8220;Our traditional way of supporting girls was really upended during the pandemic as troops couldn&#8217;t really meet in person,&#8221; Sofia Chang, CEO of Girls Scouts of the USA, reportedly <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1129638080/girl-scouts-mackenzie-scott-donates-85-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;So to build back stronger than we ever had before, we&#8217;re really listening to our Girl Scouts, listening to their families and to our volunteers to really ensure that what comes next for us is truly impactful in this moment.”
Chang also said that Scott’s “support of our organization means honestly just as much as the donation.”
&#8220;We are so appreciative,&#8221; Chang noted in a statement <a href="https://people.com/human-interest/mackenzie-scott-girl-scouts-donation-history-divorce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> by PEOPLE. &#8220;This is a great accelerator for our ongoing efforts to help girls cultivate the skills and connections to lead in their own communities and globally.&#8221;
&#8220;The support from all our donors, including this generous support from MacKenzie, is critical in delivering on our work of reimagination and transformation,&#8221; added Chang. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to prove how MacKenzie&#8217;s investment in girls will change the world — because when one girl succeeds, we all succeed.&#8221;
Southern Arizona’s Girl Scout council will use the money it was given — $1.4 million — to lift up the initiatives it is already taking part in, according to the group’s CEO Kristen Garcia-Hernandez.
“We are a small council and we’re certainly not in a major metropolitan hub. So for us, gifts of this magnitude don’t come around very often,” Garcia-Hernandez <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/millions-cookies-mackenzie-scott-girl-scouts-85m-91677020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In 2019, Scott <a href="https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/116-organizations-driving-change-67354c6d733d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she wanted to donate most of her money. She has given around $12 billion to organizations since then, including a massive <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088390733/mackenzie-scott-donation-planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donation</a> of $275 million to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its regional partners.
Scott said in an announcement at the time that the main focus of her giving is to support &#8220;underrepresented people from groups of all kinds,” adding, “[t]he cause of equity has no sides. Nor can it have a single solution.”
&#8220;We are all human. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love,&#8221; she said.

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Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth is revealing for the first time just how close she came to being just another victim in the brutal 1977 murder of three girls at an Oklahoma Girl Scout camp.
&#8220;This is a story I wish I never had to tell, but it needs to be told,&#8221; Chenoweth <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdqi2uCD2dt/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=63ae2929-ae72-4082-8a80-0f90db06e313">posted</a> on Instagram, sharing the trailer of the upcoming four-part documentary &#8220;Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders.&#8221; The series was produced for ABC News Studios and will premiere on Hulu on May 24.
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&#8220;The four-part docuseries, which premieres May 24 on Hulu, explores the killings of <a href="https://people.com/crime/girl-scout-murder-mom-lori-farmer-speaks/">Lori Lee Farmer</a>, 8, Michele Heather Guse, 9, and Doris Denise Milner, 10, during a June 1977 Girl Scouts trip to Camp Scott,&#8221; People <a href="https://people.com/tv/kristin-chenoweth-reveals-personal-connection-1977-girl-scout-murders-abc-news-doc-trailer/">reported</a>.
The three girls were put in the same tent — the furthest one from the counselors – but <a href="https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-girl-scout-murders-1977-latest/39871676">several noises throughout the night</a> brought Counselor Carla Wilhite out of her own tent to investigate. Most of the disruptions were caused by giggling campers, up late because they were enjoying their first night away from home. However, one camper reported hearing a scream during the night — and another said that she had heard someone crying for her mother.
Wilhite said that she heard a low, &#8220;guttural&#8221; sound several times, but that it had stopped when she waved her flashlight toward the surrounding woods — and because she never saw anything moving, she said she had just assumed that it had been an animal.
But the next morning, all three girls were found dead in their sleeping bags, and the medical examiner said that they had been sexually molested but not raped. Camp Scott was closed that morning, and it never reopened.
&#8220;I remember I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick, and mom said, &#8216;You can&#8217;t go. It stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-kristin-chenoweth-backs-pro-life-message-of-new-movie-shares-personal-experience-told-from-my-gut/">Chenoweth</a> said.
The &#8220;Wicked&#8221; star added, &#8220;When I think of those three girls, I wonder what&#8217;s the best way to honor them. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;d come back home, to find answers once and for all.&#8221;
The four-part docuseries follows investigators as they use new technology to investigate the case — technology that was not available at the time of the murders. It also includes new interviews with the families of the victims, a camp counselor, and the sheriff who reopened the case.
Mayes County Sheriff Mike Reed recently released DNA results linking escaped convict Gene Leroy Hart to the crime. Even though Hart was acquitted in 1979, Reed said that he believes he was connected in some way.
&#8220;Unless something new comes up, something brought to light we are not aware of, I am convinced where I&#8217;m sitting of Hart&#8217;s guilt and involvement in this case,&#8221; Reed said. Hart died in prison in 1979, serving time for unrelated charges.

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The Girl Scouts told its membership that taking a color-blind approach to life “perpetuates racism,” and parents must have conversations about race and racism “regularly” with their daughters to counterbalance this narrative.  
The organization released an <a href="https://www.girlscouts.org/en/raising-girls/leadership/civic-action/racism-and-kids.html">online resource</a> for parents designed to help their kids “take action against racism.” Much of the data and resources cited in the article are inspired by “anti-racism” and critical race theory. The resource is primarily aimed at encouraging white parents to have conversations with their children about their privilege. 
“While we should be having conversations about race and racism regularly, checking in with your girl is crucial when racist violence claims lives and sparks widespread protest, grief, and unrest around the nation,” the article reads. “Having honest discussions about race is important for all families, and it’s vital to have them on a regular basis, even if you find it uncomfortable or you think your kids already know about racism and understand right from wrong.”
“Saying ‘we’re all the same’ or ‘I don’t see color’ might be well-intentioned, but it perpetuates racism because it disregards part of people’s identities,” the article continues. “Plus, saying everyone is the same implies that everyone has the same experiences and is treated the same in our society — which statistics and the everyday discrimination faced by Black people and other people of color show isn’t the case.”
White Girl Scouts were encouraged to look at the power structures within their neighborhood and school to determine their privilege and understand racism. 
“It’s also important to look at how your girl’s life is structured and lived every day,” the website reads. “Who does she see in her neighborhood, at school, and in positions of power around her?” 
The Girl Scouts’ guide also claims that parents who feel “uncomfortable” partaking in conversations about race may be perpetuating unfair “justice, health, and education systems.” 
“It may be tempting to avoid the topic of race and racism altogether — especially for those who were taught it’s something that isn’t polite to discuss — but statistics show that justice, health, and education systems aren’t fair in basic ways that can negatively affect a girl’s life on a foundational level,” the guide reads.  
The guide cited data claiming that young children can show a “bias toward whiteness.” It suggested curtailing this bias by making children play with diverse toys and watching diverse television shows. 
At the bottom of the guide is a list of resources for parents to increase their knowledge on racism and discussing racism with their kids. Examples include the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which distributed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-museum-of-african-american-history-valuing-hard-work-being-polite-objectivity-all-aspects-of-whiteness">literature</a> that claims hard work, being on time, being polite, and objectivity are aspects of whiteness, and EmbraceRace, which promotes the teachings of anti-racism. 
Among the resources was a link to the nonprofit organization The Conscious Kid, which made headlines for hosting a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasbro-training-session-teaches-employees-that-babies-can-be-racist">training</a> session that told Hasbro employees that babies as young as three months old can show racial preferences. 
The Conscious Kid is also linked to the “cancellation” of Dr. Seuss books and Nickelodeon’s race-based special. The nonprofit also teamed up with Google’s charity arm to create an “anti-racist” book list for K-12 teachers. 
Girl Scouts did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. 
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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are welcoming their inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts on Sunday, the first since the organization began accepting girls in 2019.
Approximately 1,000 girls were slated to be a part of the first class, <a href="https://abc13.com/10359255/?ex_cid=TA_KTRK_TW&amp;taid=6032a45718b9b20001c57774&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">according</a> to The Associated Press. Attaining the rank of Eagle Scout requires at least 21 merit badges, and Isabella Tunney, who is one of the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/us/boy-scouts-transgender-membership/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new female Eagle Scouts</a>, earned each of the 137 badges possible.
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“The quarantine helped a lot,” Tunney recounted to the AP. “I had a lot of time to spare.”
Tunney told the AP about how she always wanted to join the Boy Scouts, like her older brother. When they began accepting girls in 2018, she seized the chance to join.
&#8220;When the Boy Scouts opened up to girls, I was so excited to get the opportunity to participate myself,” she said.
Jenn Hancock, the BSA&#8217;s national chair for programs, said in a statement to the AP: &#8220;This is a powerful moment for these young women, for all Eagle Scouts, and for our nation. People recognize Eagle Scouts as individuals of the highest caliber, and for the first time, that title isn&#8217;t limited by gender.&#8221;
Among the badges would-be Eagle Scouts now have to earn is a &#8220;diversity and inclusion&#8221; badge. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/letter-boy-scouts-introduce-black-lives-matter-inspired-diversity-and-inclusion-badge-will-be-required-to-become-eagle-scout" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>In a letter posted Monday, the National Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts of America announced a new badge related to “diversity and inclusion” in conjunction with the far-left, anti-cop Black Lives Matter movement.
The new badge will be a prerequisite to becoming an Eagle Scout, according to the committee.</blockquote>
The Girl Scouts recently alleged the Boy Scouts were stealing recruits from them. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/girl-scouts-accuse-boy-scouts-of-poaching-recruits-boy-scouts-accuse-girl-scouts-of-starting-ground-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The Girl Scouts of the United States of America claimed in court documents that the Boy Scouts of America are engaging in a “highly damaging” recruitment war that is poaching potential members. In response, the Boy Scouts, which is currently rebranding to become Scouts BSA and allow girls to join, claimed the Girl Scouts has launched a “ground war.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/girl-scouts-accuse-boy-scouts-of-poaching-new-recruits/">reported</a> that the feud between the two organizations began years ago when the Cub Scouts announced that girls would be accepted into the organization starting in 2018. In 2019, the Boy Scouts announced it would rebrand to become a gender-neutral organization and also accept girls.</blockquote>
In 2019, the Girl Scouts sued the Boy Scouts for dropping gender-specific language from their name. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/girl-scouts-suing-boy-scouts-over-leaving-boy-out-hank-berrien" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>The Girl Scouts of the USA is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/us/girl-boy-scouts-scli-intl/index.html%20'">suing</a> the Boy Scouts of America for their plans to drop the word “Boy” from their name in 2019. The complaint the Girl Scouts filed stated that the Boy Scouts do not have the right to use “scouts” or “scouting,” and the Girl Scouts brand and their programs will be damaged if the Boy Scouts follow through with their plans. It also asserted, “Only GSUSA has the right to use the Girl Scouts and Scouts trademarks with leadership development services for girls.”</blockquote>
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The Girl Scouts of the United States of America claimed in court documents that the Boy Scouts of America are engaging in a “highly damaging” recruitment war that is poaching potential members. In response, the Boy Scouts, which is currently rebranding to become Scouts BSA and allow girls to join, claimed the Girl Scouts has launched a “ground war.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/girl-scouts-accuse-boy-scouts-of-poaching-new-recruits/">reported</a> that the feud between the two organizations began years ago when the Cub Scouts announced that girls would be accepted into the organization starting in 2018. In 2019, the Boy Scouts announced it would rebrand to become a gender-neutral organization and also accept girls.
The Girl Scouts sued, alleging trademark infringement. Last month, the Post reported, the Boy Scouts filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it was “utterly meritless.” On Thursday, the Girl Scouts responded to the filing, claiming the Boy Scouts have been poaching potential recruits by using the terms “scout, scouts, scouting, scouts BSA and scout me in” partially helped cause an “explosion of confusion” in recruitment, which was “extraordinary and highly damaging to Girl Scouts.”
“As a result of Boy Scouts’ infringement, parents have mistakenly enrolled their daughters in Boy Scouts thinking it was Girl Scouts,” the filing on behalf of the Girl Scouts says. The attorneys for the Girl Scouts wrote such confusion didn’t occur prior to the Boy Scouts changing their name to Scouts BSA and started allowing girls to join.
Included in the Girl Scouts’ response is evidence of “rampant instances of confusion and mistaken instances of association between Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts,” wherein the Boy Scouts had to return registration fees to parents who thought they were signing their daughters up for the Girl Scouts. The Post, however, noted that the fees were returned in “less than a tenth of local Scout councils.”
The Girl Scouts claimed in court that the Boy Scouts said the confusion was due to isolated incidents of mistaken marketing, an argument the Girl Scouts dismissed.
“According to Boy Scouts, blame for the rampant marketplace confusion lies at everyone’s feet but its own,” the girl scouts wrote in their filing.
The Boy Scouts responded to the latest filing in a statement, accusing the Girl Scouts of starting a “ground war.”
“To imply that confusion is a prevailing reason for their choice is not only inaccurate – with no legally admissible instance of this offered to date in the case – but it is also dismissive of the decisions of more than 120,000 girls and young women who have joined Cub Scouts or Scouts BSA since the programs became available to them,” the statement said.
The Post reported that membership for both organizations has declined in recent years, with the Boy Scouts reporting 2.2 million members, a third as many as its record membership in 1972, while the Girl Scouts have just 1.7 million members, down from its highest membership year in 2003. The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55460888">reported</a> that the Girl Scouts accused the Boy Scouts of accepting girls to increase its declining membership.

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Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and others slammed the Girl Scouts of the USA for deleting its social media post congratulating Justice Amy Coney Barrett for becoming only the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
The Girl Scouts said they deleted the post because they didn’t want it to be a &#8220;political or partisan statement&#8221; but ultimately determined that it had been taken that way. “Girl Scouts of the USA is a non-political, nonpartisan organization. We are neither red nor blue, but Girl Scout GREEN. We are here to lift up girls and women,” said the organization.
Kelly wasn&#8217;t having it and proceeded to call out the Girl Scouts for its decision.
“This is pathetic [Girl Scouts]. It’s not &#8216;partisan&#8217; to generically congratulate the 5th woman ever to join the High Court. It’s patriotic. Taking your tweet down *is* partisan, however, and a real disappointment,” tweeted Kelly.
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This is pathetic <a href="https://twitter.com/girlscouts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@girlscouts</a>. It’s not “partisan” to generically congratulate the 5th woman ever to join the High Court. It’s patriotic. Taking your tweet down *is* partisan, however, and a real disappointment. <a href="https://t.co/ecct6oU8O4">https://t.co/ecct6oU8O4</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1321624189820899331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As Kelly noted, the original Girl Scouts congratulations wasn’t partisan. Rather it was a generic tweet both honoring Barrett for reaching the Supreme Court and the other female justices who joined the court in years past. It featured a photo of Barrett, along with a photo of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, retired Sandra Day O’Connor, and the three sitting female justices, and read simply: “Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the fifth woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789.”
The Girl Scouts’ unwillingness to celebrate the women on the Supreme Court appears to be a departure from last year, when the organization celebrated Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in a blog excerpt for Women’s History Month that they shared on Twitter.
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Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor broke gender barriers in the nation’s highest court, but that’s only part of what makes them inspiring role models worth honoring: <a href="https://t.co/MsdnJmG9uT">https://t.co/MsdnJmG9uT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHM2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHM2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GIRLagenda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GIRLagenda</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHM2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHM2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/HdTxkbevHz">pic.twitter.com/HdTxkbevHz</a>
&mdash; Girl Scouts (@girlscouts) <a href="https://twitter.com/girlscouts/status/1111021344928514048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Other right-leaning and conservative political commentators also weighed in on the Girl Scouts’ decision to delete the post congratulating Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Katie Pavlich, an editor for Townhall, called out the organization for hitting a “new low,” while writer Anna James Ziegler said that the organization was “bullied into deleting a simple tweet acknowledging” the women in Supreme Court history.
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Federalist co-founder Sean Davis tweeted: “Awesome job teaching girls to cower before the mob. What an example you’ve set for them. Consider this your reminder that Girl Scouts is little more than a front for a wildly profitable cookie company that uses unpaid child labor to move product.”
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The Girl Scouts of America has deleted a Wednesday social media post that congratulated Justice Amy Coney Barrett for becoming one of only five women in U.S. history to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
In a statement on social media, the Girl Scouts explained that the post was deleted because it was viewed as a political statement, instead of as simply congratulatory.
“Earlier today, we shared a post highlighting the five women who have been appointed to the Supreme Court. It was quickly viewed as a political and partisan statement which was not our intent and we have removed the post,” explained the organization.
“Girl Scouts of the USA is a non-political, nonpartisan organization. We are neither red nor blue, but Girl Scout GREEN. We are here to lift up girls and women,” said Girl Scouts.
The original Girl Scouts post featured a photo of Barrett, along with a photo of the since-retired Sandra Day O’Connor and the three sitting female justices on the Supreme Court, and read simply: “Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the fifth woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789.”
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The Girl Scouts deleted their Tweet congratulating Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the fifth woman seated on the Supreme Court because the blue checkmark brigade was mad at them. <a href="https://t.co/kQVmL9LFru">pic.twitter.com/kQVmL9LFru</a>
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1321629089028079616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Girl Scouts of the USA is a nonpolitical, nonpartisan organization. We are neither red nor blue, but Girl Scout GREEN. We are here to lift up girls and women.
— Girl Scouts (@girlscouts) <a href="https://twitter.com/girlscouts/status/1321596962358075394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
Despite its innocuous nature, the Girl Scouts post promptly drew the ire of the Left, including from Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), who wrote: “What kind of patch does one earn for uplifting a woman who is the antithesis of justice.”
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What kind of patch does one earn for uplifting a woman who is the antithesis of justice? <a href="https://t.co/Z7TfkymPfL">https://t.co/Z7TfkymPfL</a>
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1321570468063858690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Thank you [Girl Scouts] for deleting your Tweet praising the Amy Comey [sic] Barret, the reason today’s Girl Scouts won’t have access to health care, equal pay or any of the other rights we take for granted. Still skipping your cookies over this shameful decision,” tweeted Brianna Wu, executive director of Rebellion Pac.
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Thank you, <a href="https://twitter.com/girlscouts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@girlscouts</a>, for deleting your Tweet praising the Amy Comey Barret, the reason today’s Girl Scouts won’t have access to health care, equal pay or any of the other rights we take for granted.
Still skipping your cookies over this shameful decision.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1321595894370914304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Girl Scouts, this tweet is really disappointing and won’t age well when access to safe abortion and the healthcare needs of millions of women and girls is gutted in this country because of Barrett’s addition to the court,” tweeted Actress Amber Tamblyn, who later thanked the group for deleting its post.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/girlscouts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@girlscouts</a> thank you for deleting the tweet. Be on our side— the side of girls who grow up to become women who fight for other women and girls, not the opposite. ❤️🙏🏻❤️
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/ambertamblyn/status/1321593244946411520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
Barrett was confirmed as the ninth justice to the Supreme Court on Monday evening by a vote of 52-48, and sworn in shortly after.

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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts who have traditionally placed American flags on the graves of veterans at veterans’ cemeteries on Memorial Day have been barred from doing so because of the coronavirus crisis.
The Scouts cannot perform their acts of honor because the Department of Veteran&#8217;s Affairs has banned public events at the sites, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-banned-memorial-day-coronavirus-veterans">Fox News</a> reports, adding, “On Long Island, N.Y., where more than 500,000 veterans are buried at two national military cemeteries, there are demands for the VA to reconsider and rescind the ban.”
Suffolk County executive Steve Bellone told Fox News, &#8220;If we can&#8217;t figure out a way to make sure we are placing flags at their graves to honor them, then something is seriously wrong … What we&#8217;re asking the VA to do is, rather than have a blanket policy across the country, allow the national cemeteries at the local level, to make this determination in conjunction with the local health department. We will take the responsibility to say that this flag placement plan meets the state and national guidelines but give us that opportunity to do it, allow us to honor our fallen heroes.” He continued, &#8220;We just commemorated VE Day, this is the generation that lived through the adversity of the great depression, they won World War Two. What is it going to say about our generation if we can&#8217;t figure out a way to honor the greatest generation by placing flags at their graves on Memorial Day?&#8221;
18-year-old Eagle Scout Kieran Monaghan told Fox News, &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely a very emotional, kind of moving experience. Personally, my Dad is a veteran. He was deployed in Iraq for a year. It&#8217;s good to be able to pay our respects to our fallen heroes, it&#8217;s important to me, it&#8217;s important to the Boy Scouts, it&#8217;s important to the community and it’s something that I would hate to see go.” He added, &#8220;It is understandable to a point, but I don&#8217;t think that it is unreasonable to be able to put a plan together to be able to still accomplish the same thing we have done year after year, still following social distancing guidelines, having everybody masked up, with gloves on. It&#8217;s definitely doable.”
The U.S. National Cemetery Administration cited the “national emergency” as the reason that “VA national cemeteries will not be hosting public Memorial Day events,&#8221; including “mass placement of gravesite flags,” adding, &#8220;families and community members are welcome to visit national cemeteries throughout Memorial Day weekend and place individual flags on graves to honor friends and family. We ask that all visitors adhere to CDC, state and local health, safety, and travel guidelines.&#8221;
Michael Freeman, associate editor of Boys’ Life, Scouting and Eagles’ Call magazines <a href="https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2018/05/22/honoring-veterans-with-gravesite-flags-memorial-day/">advised</a> Scouts in 2018:
<blockquote>Always coordinate with the cemetery’s director when planning to volunteer. The director will know how much help is needed and where that help should be directed. The director might need flags placed at grave sites or along the main entrance, often referred to as an “avenue of flags,” or might not need any help at all.
&#8230; flags placed at graves should be erected in a uniform matter, usually one foot, centered and in front of the headstone or grave marker.
&#8230; For an “avenue of flags” display, flagpoles should be inserted and secured in an in-ground receptacle. The flags shouldn’t interfere with traffic … For all flag ceremonies, remember to follow the rules of <a href="https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2015/09/24/10-things-know-flag-etiquette/">flag etiquette</a>. These include never letting the flag touch the ground and ensuring flags are in excellent condition.
&#8230; Volunteering at a cemetery for Memorial Day is a great way to teach Scouts about national and local history, community service and patriotism. It can also be an opportunity to fulfill service hours and rank requirements, but more importantly, it’s a chance to impart a sense of respect for those who have died for our freedoms.
Remind Scouts to follow cemetery rules, refrain from rowdiness and to stay on designated paths</blockquote>
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As Girl Scout cookies season comes to a close, parents should be aware that the organization does not exactly have family-friendly values at its heart.
Though the organization&#8217;s ties to abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2685/planned-parenthood-connected-girl-scouts-amanda-prestigiacomo">have been known</a> for years, the Girl Scouts of America have yet to be so forthright about their closeted support for abortion.
Until now.
According to <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/03/05/girl-scouts-gives-its-highest-award-to-teen-who-organized-campaign-promoting-abortion/">LifeNews</a>, the group MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, which has been monitoring the organization for years over its pro-abortion stance, discovered last Friday that the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona honored a girl for her volunteer work on &#8220;reproductive health justice.&#8221;
&#8220;Meghna Gopalan, recently profiled in a Tucson publication, received the Gold Award, the Girl Scouts highest honor, for her work,&#8221; reports LifeNews. &#8220;Her project involved working with the pro-abortion Women&#8217;s March and its affiliate in Tucson. She said her goal was to &#8216;educate people about and destigmatize access to women&#8217;s healthcare&#8217; &#8212; euphemisms for abortion.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m planning on hosting an event to educate people about and de-stigmatize access to women&#8217;s healthcare,&#8221; Meghan Gopalan said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been working with El Rio Reproductive Health Access Project, and they offered ideas on reproductive health justice which would broaden the scope of the project a little bit. I got interested in the topic with the Supreme Court nomination of [Brett] Kavanaugh &#8230;&#8221;
Christy Volanski, co-editor of MyGirlScoutCouncil.com, said the Girl Scouts have a &#8220;cozy relationship&#8221; with the abortion industry. Former Girl Scouts CEO <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/17/2012/05/10/2004/03/09/nat-369/">Kathy Cloninger even once admitted</a> on NBC: &#8220;We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with &#8230; Planned Parenthood organizations across the country.&#8221;
LifeNews profiled the more extensive network that the organization chooses to deny:
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Although the Girl Scout organization maintains that it takes &#8220;no position&#8221; on abortion, parents, churches and pro-life activists have long complained of the pro-abortion slant of the Girl Scouts&#8217; resources, role models and affiliations.
In a national survey in 2013, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/17/2012/05/10/2004/04/12/nat-442/">seventeen Girl Scouts councils admitted</a> to partnering with Planned Parenthood; other councils refuse to answer the survey question. Of the 315 Girl Scout councils in the U.S., 17 councils reported having a relationship with Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, and 49 reported they do not. The other 249 refused to disclose any relationship.
In 2013, Girl Scouts USA <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/02/girl-scouts-suggest-abortion-activist-wendy-davis-for-woman-of-the-year/">shared a recommendation for abortion activist and former pro-abortion Texas legislator Wendy Davis as a 2013 Woman of the Year</a> on its official Twitter account. The organization also <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/15/girl-scouts-promotes-pro-abortion-kathleen-sebelius-as-woman-of-courage-and-character/">suggested pro-abortion former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a woman &#8220;with courage, confidence, and character.&#8221;</a>
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In 2017, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City<a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/guest-blogger/archdiocese-removes-girl-scouts-citing-catholic-conflict"> ended his diocese&#8217;s longstanding affiliation</a> with the Girl Scouts over their relationship with the abortion industry.

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