Louisiana Girl Scout Leaders Disband Troops over Gender Confusion Issue

Written By: Dave Bohon  |  Posted: Monday, January 2nd, 2012

            A group of Girl Scout leaders in Louisiana has decided to dismantle its troops because of a recent decision by the national organization to allow boys who are confused about their gender to join the ranks of the female scouting program. The leaders, who oversee three Girl Scout troops at Northlake Christian School in Lacombe, Louisiana, explained that the move by the group's national leadership conflicted with their host organization's Christian beliefs. "This goes against what we [Northlake Christian School] believe," Susan Bryant-Snure, one of the leaders, told Baptist Press News. Snure has three daughters of her own among the 25 girls participating in the Girl Scout program through the school.

            BP News reported that the school is looking into filling the scouting void by joining with the American Heritage Girls, a specifically Christian group "organized in 1995 in protest to the Girl Scouts' decision to allow scouts to replace the word 'God' in scout teachings with a word representing a personal image of God, such as a 'higher being,' 'Allah' or 'Buddha.'"

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