Girls Scouts USA are awarding their cadets with a LGTBQIA+ themed badge if they attend a Pride parade and/or actively participate in Pride festivities, introduced for this year’s International Pride Month.
The Girls Scouts officially announced this several weeks ago on June 1st. The club wrote on their 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.
Girls and leaders have plenty of activities to choose from to earn this fun patch, and we encourage girls of all identities to participate.
The organization wrote
Girl Scouts issued a 4-page letter to troop leaders, providing a detailed list of recommended things the girls can do to earn their “fun patch,” they call it, part of the “I Am a Girl Scout!” collection. The letter begins with stating: “We’re stronger together and by acknowledging the diversity, heritage, and contributions of our multicultural communities, Girl Scouts can find new ways to make the world a better place for everyone.”
The guide also suggests leaders review the terms and definitions associated with LGTBQIA+ in GLSEN’s Key Concepts and Terms.
At the end the documents lists 20 specific things that can help qualify a scout to earn her badge. The first 10 are grouped under “art,” the proceeding 5 are listed as “community,” and 16-20 are under “discovery.” They are as follows:
- 1. Sketch a portrait of a member of the LGBTQ+ community past or present whom you admire. Then write a paragraph or draw a picture about their contribution to our country and why you chose them. (All Levels)
- 2. Make a music playlist featuring 12 LGBTQ+ artists. Talk about which songs you like the most. (All Levels)
- 3. Identify five books written by LGBTQ+ authors that you would like to read—and start reading one of them! (All Levels)
- 4. Make rainbow flags to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. (All Levels)
- 5. Create your own painting or drawing in the style of an American LGBTQ artist. Learn a little about their life and work while you are at it. (All Levels)
- 6. Draw a map of the United States and mark on it 6 LGBTQ+ historical landmarks and read about why they are important. (All Levels)
- 7. Create a poster displaying three quotes you love by three historical or contemporary leaders from the LGBTQ+ community. (J/C/S/A)
- 8. Watch and share with your friends a movie or documentary about LGBTQ+ history in the United States. Some examples you might want to consider include Milk (2008), We Were Here (2011), The Out List (2013), and Stonewall Uprising – PBS (2020). (C/S/A)
- 9. Memorize a poem (or part of one) by a LGBTQ+ poet (e.g., Elizabeth Bishop, Audre Lorde, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin etc.). Read about their journey to becoming a poet. (C/S/A)
- 10. Read about the Stonewall Uprising in 1969 and its importance to the LGBTQ+ community. Write a poem about that historic day. (C/S/A)
- 11. Create a piece of art that celebrates how families come in all shapes, sizes, and kinds (mom(s), dad (s), grandparents, cousins and or close friends, etc.) and tell us one special thing about each person in your drawing. (All Levels)
- 12. Learn about Spirit Day. Then make a pledge to wear purple on October 21 to stand against bullying and to show your support for LGBTQ+ youth. (All Levels)
- 13. Visit the National Women’s History Museum website and read about LGBTQ historical figures and how they advocated for their community in the larger gay movement. Share what you learned with your troop or family. (J/C/S/A)
- 14. Learn about a 3 famous LGBTQ+ chefs and or leaders in the food industry. What is their favorite part of their jobs and favorite dish? for extra fun, try to make one of their dishes. (J/C/S/A)
- 15. Participate in GLSEN’s No Name-Calling Week. This week is to disrupt anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and bias-based bullying. (J/C/S/A)
- 16. Watch Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag – Read Aloud Picture Book on YouTube for free and learn about the history of the rainbow flag. Draw a rainbow flag. (All Levels)
- 17. Attend an LGBTQ+ Pride celebration in June with your family or troop. (All Levels)
- 18. Read a children’s book featuring LGBTQ+ characters. Here are a few recommendations: Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer, Stonewall: A Building, an Uprising, a Revolution by Rob Sanders, I am Billie Jean King by Brad Meltzer, I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings or find one on your own. (All Levels)
- 19. Make a list of 3 LGBTQ+ athletes, the sport they participated in, when they competed, and the awards they won. (J/C/S/A)
- 20. Have a watch party with your family or troop of New York University’s Stonewall at 50 documentary , currently streaming for free on YouTube. Discuss what you learned and felt with your group. (J/C/S/A)
The Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts posted on Facebook their participation in Pride month activities several weeks ago.
Girls Scouts USA is also selling a Pride tank top for the children to wear.
“I Am a Girl Scout!” badge collection includes four other merits to complete the pentagonal circle, that demonstrate inclusivity by the scout. These includes honoring Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month; Black History Month; Hispanic Heritage Month; and Native American Heritage Month.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! [2] It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Luke 17:1-2
Don’t let your daughter be apart of this. Don’t let her join or remove her from this; and don’t buy their cookies.
The Boys and Girls Scouts are known for being affluent pedophile and molestation rings, so if you are going to teach your children handy skills, do it yourself with them.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I would buy their cookies from time to time and I was doing it to be kind, I’m not a Cookie Monster.
But now, sorry girls but your organization is supporting sodomites!
When an organization commits itself to evil practices, and lovers of evil, it is clear to stay clear of them.
Psalm 1, it is a process…first you walk with them, then you stand with them, and soon you scorn the very truths you once held to.
This is pure evil and it needs to be silenced…so do not send your daughters to girl scouts or your boys to boy scouts…they are not what you may think they are.
Never joined Girl Scouts, never joined Camp Fire Girls. I did see the movie Addams Family Values where the one little Girl Scout, in the traditional green uniform, asks Wednesday and Pugsley if they want to buy some Girl Scout cookies, and Wednesday asks, “Do they contain real Girl Scouts?” That’s about “where we are at right now”.
However, I did learn how to swim at the YW/YMCA, but I never saw any Village People there. If the weather is nice tomorrow, this old chicken just might do some laps in the lake with her kick board and culotte dress, all because I learned to swim at the “Y”.