From Breitbart:
GIRL
SCOUTS OF BRITAIN REPLACE ‘GOD’ WITH ‘MYSELF’ IN OATH
On
Wednesday, Great Britain’s Girl Guides (their equivalent of U.S. Girl Scouts)
and Brownies removed God from their 103-year-old oath.
Instead of
the passage where they used to promise to “love God,” they will now vow to be
true to “myself” and develop “my beliefs.” The organization said the move is
intended to attract girls from secular families.
Andrea
Minichiello Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, condemned the move, saying,
“These values have their roots in a Christian outlook. Taking ‘God’ out of the
promise denies the history and foundations of the movement without offering
anything in its place, with the result that the organization will lose its
distinctive ethos and end up meaning nothing.”
Chief Guide
Gill Slocombe protested that the organization consulted 40,000 before it made
the change. She said that using God in the pledge “discouraged some girls and
volunteers from joining,” and now the Guides could “reach out to girls and
women who might not have considered guiding before, so that even more girls can
benefit from everything guiding can offer.”
Julie
Bentley, the new CEO of the Guides, has called the Girl Guides the “ultimate
feminist organization.”
The Girl
Guides in Australia also deleted God from the vow last year. The Boy Scouts in
Great Britain are considering a similar move next month.
Girl Scouts
and Boy Scouts in the United States still vow to “to serve God and my country.”
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