The sexual subversion of girls

By Kelly Kathryn Llobet

A covert war is being waged against America’s daughters. This war is the sexualization of our youth: The most recent battlefield is the Girl Scouts of America. The fight to sexually subvert our young women is undercover, insidious and cloaked in the sweet euphemisms of progressivism.

Recently, Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, an international non-profit organization that promotes the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, reported participating in the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which is dedicated exclusively to gender equality and the advancement of women. It is the principal global policy-making body at the United Nations. She was asked to leave a closed-door “girls only” meeting sponsored by the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA). As soon as the meeting ended, she entered the room, and found a stack of booklets titled, “Healthy, Happy, and Hot,” produced by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a leading global advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

This offensive booklet promotes sexual pleasure to teens. "Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse. But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex,” states the pamphlet. The booklet encourages masturbation, talking “dirty,” and depicts both same-sex and opposite-sex couples. It also tells HIV-infected teens that they do not have to inform their sexual partners they are infected.

GSA stated that they did not actively pass out the pamphlets. However, they have not disavowed the material. In fact, for 14 years, GSA and Planned Parenthood have had a relationship.  In 2004 at a co-sponsored event in Waco, Texas, a book entitled, It’s Perfectly Normal, was doled out to 700 girls with explicit drawings of masturbation and couples having sexual intercourse.

American Life League's STOPP International (whose aim is to STOP Planned Parenthood) conducted a study of Girl Scout councils throughout the United States in an effort to identify which councils had a relationship with Planned Parenthood. The study was opposed by the national office of the GSUSA. After several months, they were able to get data on over half the Girl Scout Councils in the country and found that about 20 percent had some type of relationship with Planned Parenthood.  Subsequently, GSUSA CEO Kathy Cloninger admitted, “We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with our church communities, with YWCAs, and with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country, to bring information-based sex education programs to girls.”

How far the Girl Scouts have fallen. In 1911, Juliette Low, founder of GSUSA, made a telephone call to a distant cousin, saying, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" On March 12, 1912, she gathered 18 girls to register the first troop of American Girl Guides which was changed to the Girl Scouts the following year. The Girl Scouts brought girls of all backgrounds into the outdoors, giving them the opportunity to develop self-reliance and resourcefulness. Ms. Low encouraged girls to prepare not only for traditional homemaking, but also for roles as professional women.

Yet today, GSUSA has vast connections to sexually progressive groups.  Many of these organizations maintain that liberal sexual education is for the good of the girls. This is a far cry from the initial vision of Ms. Low when she founded the Girl Scouts.

Parents must therefore be proactive in preventing their girls from being sexually subverted. They can compel the troop to change: Some mothers  intend to ask the St. Louis Girl Scouts to pull out of the national organization. Parents can also put their girls in a different club altogether, such as the Little Flowers and American Heritage Girls. In essence, the pamphlet incident reveals that parents must be ever-vigilant: They cannot abdicate their role as their child’s primary educator of virtue and morals. Their future depends on it.

-Kelly Kathryn Llobet is a writer living in Baltimore, a veteran Navy spouse and a proud mother of five.