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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:11 PM May 2012

If you thought US Catholic Bishops Couldn't Be Bigger Assholes, You'd be Wrong...

Girl Scouts under scrutiny from Catholic bishops

http://news.yahoo.com/girl-scouts-under-scrutiny-catholic-bishops-181843252.html

Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive, as well as assertions that the Scouts associate with other groups espousing stances that conflict with church teaching. The Scouts, who have numerous parish-sponsored troops, deny many of the claims and defend their alliances.

The inquiry coincides with the Scouts' 100th anniversary celebrations and follows a chain of other controversies.

Earlier this year, legislators in Indiana and Alaska publicly called the Scouts into question, and the organization was berated in a series aired by a Catholic broadcast network. Last year, the Scouts angered some conservatives by accepting into a Colorado troop a 7-year-old transgender child who was born a boy but was being raised as a girl.

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Fairly biased article from yahoo, which isn't a surprise.

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If you thought US Catholic Bishops Couldn't Be Bigger Assholes, You'd be Wrong... (Original Post) joeybee12 May 2012 OP
The Girl Scouts are not Catholic. See how the Roman Church Dawson Leery May 2012 #1
I guess they haven't alienated US Catholics enough get the red out May 2012 #2
I am sick and tired of the boy rapers club atreides1 May 2012 #3
Find a form to officially disavow the Catholic Church HockeyMom May 2012 #4
I just don't understand this. DevonRex May 2012 #5
All the while supporting the "scummy" just by being there. madmom May 2012 #6
remember a church is a group of people who more or less share the same values madrchsod May 2012 #9
Seems to me that there needs to be a Catholic revolution then. DevonRex May 2012 #13
What you saw is what many of us Catholics here at DU have stated time after time - hedgehog May 2012 #11
The people I saw there wouldn't go quietly, I can tell you that. DevonRex May 2012 #15
At least, for a change, they're picking on someone their own size. DCKit May 2012 #7
This won't end well for The Clan hifiguy May 2012 #8
i like that..."the clan of the red beanie" madrchsod May 2012 #10
What standing does an international child rapist ring have to moralize about the Girl Scouts? DisgustipatedinCA May 2012 #12
Offensive? Doctors without Borders, the Sierra Club, and Oxfam? muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #14
"Offensive" is a synonym of "secular" in the RCC lexicon. nt dmallind May 2012 #17
Once again, the GOP says something crazy and the bishops nod their head ck4829 May 2012 #16

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
1. The Girl Scouts are not Catholic. See how the Roman Church
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:14 PM
May 2012

wants to intrude upon our lives.

The RCC clearly does not respect the founding principles of this nation.

How long before Rome and their Evangelical cousins intrude into other faiths, private enterprise, and our homes?
THIS WILL HAPPEN.

get the red out

(13,459 posts)
2. I guess they haven't alienated US Catholics enough
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:25 PM
May 2012

Child rape hasn't completely destroyed the Church in the US, so I guess they will just keep on trying.

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
3. I am sick and tired of the boy rapers club
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:36 PM
May 2012

Where are all these Catholics I keep hearing about that are sick and tired of these bishops...where are the hypocrites who use birth control and then still give money to the pro rapist Vatican hacks?

When are they going to stand up and be counted, when are they going to tell the bishops to STFU?

Never that's when!!!

The only thing that will shut these evil, vile men up...is when the chuches are standing empty, and the Vatican's coffers are as bare as those of Mother Hubbard cupboards!

But I don't think there are that many Catholics with the guts to do this...

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
4. Find a form to officially disavow the Catholic Church
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:41 PM
May 2012

and I will sign it. LONG OVERDUE. They count as members of their flock those who for years want nothing to do them. They inflate their number because of this to make it sound like they have more clout than they really do.

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
5. I just don't understand this.
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:50 PM
May 2012

How can some of them be so damned scummy? But there's a church here in a city I'm visiting that had a gay dad and his son read part of the service in front of the whole church at the Easter ceremony. His partner and the younger sibling were in the front row taking (sneaking) pictures, smiling proudly. The whole church was smiling proudly, young and old, gay and straight, white and black, etc.

That was another surprising thing for me. I've never seen so many African American catholics in my life, much less LGBTQ catholics. But there they all were - entire families of them, loving every minute of it.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
9. remember a church is a group of people who more or less share the same values
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:32 PM
May 2012

the Vatican wants to put an end to the very church you are describing. my main complaint is the catholic church is run by an elected head of state.

i find no reason why they should`t be taxed and follow the laws of our country.

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
13. Seems to me that there needs to be a Catholic revolution then.
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:19 PM
May 2012

Because that church I saw was beautiful and should be the heart and soul of the Catholic Church itself.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
11. What you saw is what many of us Catholics here at DU have stated time after time -
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:38 PM
May 2012

the Church is us, not (just) the bishops!

Unfortunately, under our present organization, that parish you saw could be closed at the whim of the bishop. Even worse, the bishop could send in a pastor who'd get those gays out of the building!

It happened here in Syracuse - the parish that was noted as a center for GLBT Catholics was closed and merged with St. Lucy's - over the objections of the man who pastored them both. Then the word came down that the people at St. Lucy's weren't comfortable with teh gays. (I have no idea of the truth of that statement - St. Lucy's is noted here as a center for Native Americans.)

'course, wouldn't you know that All Saints took up the cause as a welcoming parish for all people!

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
15. The people I saw there wouldn't go quietly, I can tell you that.
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:22 PM
May 2012

I've never seen such strong, faithful people in my life. Real faith, not the silly, put-on faith that I grew up with in fundamentalist churches. These people glowed with an inner strength that only comes from having lived through tough times and come through them better than before because they did it together.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
7. At least, for a change, they're picking on someone their own size.
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:04 PM
May 2012

But I think they're going to get their asses kicked.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
8. This won't end well for The Clan
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:11 PM
May 2012

of the Red Beanie (copyright Charles Pierce). The Girl Scouts have a hell of a lot more goodwill with the public than these klowns. But then the Girl Scouts didn't spend forty or more years protecting and covering for pedophiles.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
12. What standing does an international child rapist ring have to moralize about the Girl Scouts?
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:05 PM
May 2012

Oh right...none. Well, fuck off and die in that case, US Catholic bishops.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
14. Offensive? Doctors without Borders, the Sierra Club, and Oxfam?
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:20 PM
May 2012

If those are what it means by "possible problematic relationships with other organizations", then it would seem the Roman Catholic church is keen to break links with any charity that actually does good in the world.

ck4829

(34,977 posts)
16. Once again, the GOP says something crazy and the bishops nod their head
Fri May 11, 2012, 09:29 AM
May 2012

Should really consider pulling their tax exempt status.

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