Bizarre Love Triangle: Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood, and National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry

Activists have already exposed the link between the Girls Scouts and Planned Parenthood.  Now it seems that the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM) is also complicit in this evil. Doing nothing, looking the other way, and ignoring the reality of the relationship between Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts is being complicit in evil.


In an interview on the "Today" show in 2004 the Girls Scouts CEO Cathy Cloninger admitted that the Girl Scouts does work with the nations leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

"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," Cloninger told Lester Holt.

Sharon Slater, the President of Family Watch International, attempted to attend a workshop in 2010 which was sponsored by the Girl Scouts at the United Nations  that was part of a conference on women's rights. She sat in the back of the room but was quickly told that the event was for 'girls only' and was asked to leave.


She waited for the workshop to end and then made her way into the classroom where the workshop had taken place.  She found participant handouts on the table and was shocked by the content in the pamphlets. 


What Sharon found was a sexually explicit booklet called, "Happy, Healthy and Hot," which included the contact information for International Planned Parenthood Federation. 

"The booklet teaches girls that they have a right to engage in any type of sexual activity they desire," Sharon said.

"But perhaps most shocking was the advice in the booklet that if they happened to be HIV-positive it was completely up to them to decide whether to inform any sexual partner of their condition."

After she reported the booklet in the "Family Watch" newsletter her credibility was called into question. The fact that her credibility was questioned isn't surprising. This is how the Left eliminates its competition through character assassination. 

After her report was published Sharon gained national media attention but the Girl Scouts denied that there was any connection between Planned Parenthood and them. 

Slater noted that parents have no idea "what ideas and values their daughters may be exposed to" as a current Girl Scout so she did something very important to keep parents informed as to what is going on within the Girl Scouts, and documented the findings of her team on her website. 

"Visitors to her site will find links to documents, screen shots, financial statements and even audio and video of Girl Scout leaders admitting connections that the GSUSA officially denies exist." 

In a recent Washington Times article Rebecca Hagelin exposes how the Girls Scouts has been co-opted by the radical feminist pro-sexual promiscuity agenda - aka the feminazis. 

Hagelin writes:

In contrast to the Boy Scouts of America – an organization I have long supported and recommended – the Girl Scouts of the United States of America has been co-opted as the functional arm of the Democratic, feminist establishment.

It dupes millions of American families into believing that its only mission is to promote wholesome leadership activities for girls.

Now that you have some background information on the connection between Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts I will show you the last piece of this evil corrupt love triangle and the connection between the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry, Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts.  

The Girl Scout whistleblowers want every parent to know the Girl Scouts evil agenda and believe the faith community should be sounding the alarm as well.  But it seems that their efforts have been stymied by the organization which oversees the relationship between the Girl Scouts and the Catholic Church and that the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry seems to be preventing the Catholic community from hearing the facts about the connection between Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts.  

Bob McCarty, the head of NFCYM, said that he had been contacted by some watchdog groups which expressed concern over the connection between Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts.    McCarty claims that he has held numerous meetings over Catholics concerns and that the Girl Scouts have addressed his concerns.  

In speaking on a NFCYM position paper McCarty stated, "The very existence of a position paper tells you that we see problems with the Girl Scouts," McCarty told WND. "If we didn't see problems, there wouldn't be a need for a position paper."

But then WND notes, "That paper speaks mainly to an accusation of the GSUSA distributing materials on marriage, abortion, contraception, and sexuality that don't line up with Catholic Church teachings. The paper then describes the NFCYM practice of simply asking the GSUSA if the accusations are true." 

Girl Scouting officials claim that "Happy, Healthy, and Hot" wasn't their booklet even though this booklet was discovered immediately after the conclusion of a meeting which was sponsored by the Girl Scouts at the United Nations.  They claim the room wasn't 'sanitized' prior to their occupying it. 

From WND:

She tells WND that the GSUSA explanation of not "sanitizing" the room prior to occupying it doesn't jive with the facts.

"It has been suggested, but seems unlikely, that the vulgar 'Healthy, Happy, and Hot' booklets were left in the room by a group from a previous meeting," she says.

She then described how it was the first day of the conference, and the three groups in the room prior to the Girl Scouts were not covering topics that would involve such a booklet.

"It is clear that the Planned Parenthood booklets would not have pertained to the topics covered by these organizations," she says.

Regardless of Slater's eyewitness account, McCarty's position paper says:

"NFCYM was satisfied with the GSUSA account of the UN meeting."

Therein, lies the problem, say the watchdog groups.

'The NFCYM gives the Girl Scouts a nod for all they do," Jane Petry said. Petry, who has four generations of Girl Scouts in her family, has become a vocal critic of the once-revered group.

"The serious error in this is the fact that they [NFCYM] advise the bishops, as they are considered the voice to our girls well being," she said. "Very, very wrong.

"The NFCYM actually has on their board members of the Girl Scouts."

Lisa Larsson is a Catholic mother from Florida who became concerned about the things her niece was being exposed to as a Girl Scout. The more she researched, the more disturbed she became.

She and her sister, Rochelle Focaracci, not only parted ways with their Girl Scout connection, they started one of the watchdog websites, girlscoutswhynot.com, as well.

Their goal is not only to inform parents across the world of the disturbing trends they discover in the Girl Scouts, but to reach church leaders as well.

 The sisters contacted Bob McCarty of the NFCYM to sound the alarm, but they say nothing really changes within the Catholic group.

They also say that it's tough to raise the alarm within the Catholic Church because the bishops tend to defer to the position of the NFCYM on the matter.

"We think that the bishops don't know the extent of the problem."
"If the NFCYM won't call for severing ties with the GSUSA, why would the bishops," Larsson asks?


Larsson and Focaracci tell WND that the NFCYM policy of simply "asking" the Girl Scouts if the accusations are true is appalling.


"It's like the FBI asking a terrorist before he gets on a plane if he's a terrorist. If he says 'no,' then they go ahead and let him get on the plane," says Larsson.


Focaracci said, "The Girl Scouts do not belong in our churches."




Is this another scandal brewing within the Catholic Church? 


Here is video of a 67-year old woman named Jane Petry, a life-long Girl Scout member and leader, who picketed outside of the GSUSA National Conference in Houston.  Kevin Williams, a pro-life advocate, traveled to Houston to support her.  

Catholic Laity Dictate Church Teachings?!? How Absurd!!

I ran across an article on the HuffPo called How Progressive Democrats Remain Catholic that stated this " The house rules that apply are those set by believers themselves."  Wrong answer.  Church Doctrine is not decided by the laity or by believers but by Tradition that has been handed down for over 2000 years.  Julian Guthrie asserts that dissident Catholics such as Mario Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and John Kerry who undermine Church Teachings are just as Catholic as those Faithful who adhere to Church Doctrine.  This is wrong.  They are cafeteria Catholics and that's being generous. These dissident Catholics are obligated to follow Church teachings on abortion, homosexuals, homosexual "marriage", and women's ordination.   These teachings are non-negotiables.  Just because their bishops have not refused to give them Communion or excommunicated them for publicly causing Church scandal by promoting anti-Catholic positions on issues doesn't mean that they are good Catholics or in good standing with the Church.  This means that the bishops are failing to do their jobs - failing to promote the Faith in accordance with the Magisterium.  The Pope needs to use the rod with regard to bishops who allow dissident "Catholic" politicians to cause scandal to the Faith.  


Here is the Pope on the use of the Shepherd's rod: 


The Church too must use the shepherd’s rod, the rod with which he protects the faith against those who falsify it, against currents which lead the flock astray.

The use of the rod can actually be a service of love. Today we can see that it has nothing to do with love when conduct unworthy of the priestly life is tolerated.

Nor does it have to do with love if heresy is allowed to spread and the faith twisted and chipped away, as if it were something that we ourselves had invented.

The Catechism explains why ordination is only conferred on men and not women.


1577 "Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination." The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry. The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ's return. The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible.


1578 No one has a right to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. Indeed no one claims this office for himself; he is called to it by God. Anyone who thinks he recognizes the signs of God's call to the ordained ministry must humbly submit his desire to the authority of the Church, who has the responsibility and right to call someone to receive orders. Like every grace this sacrament can be received only as an unmerited gift.


1579 All the ordained ministers of the Latin Church, with the exception of permanent deacons, are normally chosen from among men of faith who live a celibate life and who intend to remain celibate "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Called to consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to "the affairs of the Lord," they give themselves entirely to God and to men. Celibacy is a sign of this new life to the service of which the Church's minister is consecrated; accepted with a joyous heart celibacy radiantly proclaims the Reign of God.


This is the Church's teaching on abortion: 


2319 Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God.


2322 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.


2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation:

"The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death."
"The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights."



2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."

Here is the Catholic Church's position on both homosexuality and marriage.

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.


2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.


2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.


2360 Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman. In marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons are sanctified by the sacrament. 




892 Divine assistance is also given to the successors of the apostles, teaching in communion with the successor of Peter, and, in a particular way, to the bishop of Rome, pastor of the whole Church, when, without arriving at an infallible definition and without pronouncing in a "definitive manner," they propose in the exercise of the ordinary Magisterium a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals. To this ordinary teaching the faithful "are to adhere to it with religious assent" which, though distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it.




The Church's teaching on abortion,contraception, homosexuals, homosexual "marriage", and women's ordination are all infallible teachings of the Catholic Church. 

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Abortion: Rick Santorum vs. Rick Perry -- 10th or 14th Amendment Issue?

Lisa Graas explains why Rick Santorum is correct on the abortion issue and Rick Perry is wrong.  She explains how abortion is NOT a 10th Amendment issue but in fact falls under the 14th Amendment.

I stand with Lisa Graas and other pro-lifers in supporting the Republican Party's 2008 pro-life platform. Here is the part which discusses abortion in relation to the Constitution:

Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.

Lisa goes onto explain why abortion has everything to do with the 14th Amendment and not the 10th Amendment:

Do you see anything in there about the 10th Amendment? No. There is a very important reason for that.Abortion has nothing to do with the 10th Amendment. It has everything to do with theFourteenth Amendment or potentially a valid Human Life Amendment.

Why is that? Simple. An unborn child is a “person“. All “persons” are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is the specific provision in Section 1 of the amendment which protects unborn children…and the rest of us, from being destroyed by a rogue state legislature.

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The rights of “persons” to equal protection of the laws trumps state legislatures. Read McDonald v. Chicago, a recent Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled (correctly) that States must extend the Second Amendment right to bear arms to citizens within that state. If it were not for the Fourteenth Amendment, any state could ban guns. Because of the Fourteenth Amendment, NO state may ban guns.

This goes the same with abortion. NO state may allow abortion. Period. Because the unborn child is, objectively, a person.

It is true that prior to Roe v. Wade, the States handled the abortion issue. But that doesn’t mean it was legitimate for them to. It was not legitimate for slavery to be a “state’s rights” issue either. The reason is that…hold onto your hats, libertarian Tea Partiers, states do not have “rights”. They have “powers”. People have rights. The unborn have rights. Rights come from God Almighty, not the federal government and not state legislatures. They come from God alone. America is supposed to be on a journey toward a greater respect for human dignity. The Founders did not end slavery. Slavery was rightly ended because of that journey.

Those who argue that abortion is a “states rights” issue are taking us backward to the Founders….who did not end slavery. America rightly ended slavery. America must also journey forward and end abortion by recognizing the personhood of the unborn child, thereby acknowledging that the child is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Rick Perry does not understand this. Sarah Palin doesn’t either. Ron Paul certainly does not. Michele Bachmann “may” understand this, but I’m just not sure. RICK SANTORUM understands that our rights come from God, not government. He understands that all levels of government, both federal and state, must defend our God-given rights.

And you thought I supported him because of his cowboy boots? Nuh uh. He’s the only one who “gets” that our rights actually trump both state and federal powers.

Are we clear now? I certainly hope so because I blogged on this ad nauseum during Kentucky’s U.S Senate primary and ended up writing in the name of a real pro-life Republican during the general election. I won’t compromise on personhood and the Fourteenth Amendment, no matter how many trillions of dollars Obama spends. You can take that to the bank. I’m voting for Santorum.

We cannot build a decent America on top of a pile of dead babies and brutalized women. Anyone who claims to be for freedom while claiming state powers trump our rights is just (knowingly or not) giving you a different brand of salt water to drink than the Left is giving you through their brand of “economic justice”.

Refresh and strengthen this nation. Quench the thirst of the downtrodden and uplift them by freeing them from their oppression. Vote for Rick Santorum.