They’re now corrupting the Girl Scouts?
I hope this has not yet reached our shores. But even if this so far is still an American or European affair, we should already be alarmed and vigilant. We have to do everything to protect our little girls from any trace of moral corruption coming from rich but decadent countries and some powerful alien groups.
A recent news item claims that in a UN meeting last March 1 of the Beijing +15 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the Girl Scouts delegation was found distributing Sex Guides made by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
As you may already know, the IPPF is the umbrella organization responsible for the global promotion of reproductive health, contraception, abortion, safe sex, sex education, the so-called sexual rights even for children, etc.
Under its aegis, the children are made to think there’s nothing wrong like, sorry to be graphic, masturbation, pre-marital sex as long as it is safe, promiscuity again as long as it is safe, infidelity, etc.
In one such Sex Guides made by the IPPF, entitled “It’s perfectly normal,” the grade-school girls were told of the value of masturbation, with explicit drawings of couples having sex and a boy putting on a condom, as well as a listing of the top nine reasons to have an abortion.
This recent incident in the UN once again surfaces the fact that the US Girls Scouts organization has a long-standing relation with the IPPF.
This should be an eye-opener to us in our country. We cannot be naïve. We have to be more discerning and to ask whether those leading our Girl Scouts organization truly have the integrity we expect them to have.
This is not to cast aspersions on the current leaders of the group. Frankly, I don’t know any of them, and I hope and pray that they are all ok. But given the temper of the times, we have to be prudent. Yes, this is prudence, not paranoia.
After all, if we have to read a little into the mind of those behind the IPPF, it should not be any wonder if they use the Girl Scouts as their vehicle to pursue their agenda worldwide. The Girl Scouts could offer them good cover and effective coverage for their work.
Besides, if we also look at the crop of women leaders in our country today, we can see that we are not lacking either in those who could easily ally themselves with the IPPF ideology. Some are even school heads and members of religious congregations.
Again, I’m sorry to be bringing out these unpleasant things. But if we have to squarely deal with our problems, present and potential, we need to be clear about how things really are in the battleground.
Yes, we are in some kind of continuing warfare. Our present condition requires us to be ever watchful and to act, of course, with charity, but also with decision and precision.
A good strategy is to engage the enemy even while it is still far from the main walls of our fortress. Again, we have to be very careful and discerning here, since with all this mantra about tolerance and respect for the plurality of cultures and perspectives, we need to have the right blend between truth and charity, charity and justice, etc.
Toward this end, it should be understood that the struggle has to be carried out by all, and not just by the clergy. The parents, the teachers, the community leaders, etc. should be in the forefront. And they better be well-equipped for this battle for the minds and hearts of people.
Also, it has to be understood that everyone should feel free to talk about God and morality in public. They should not be ashamed to show their true colors, just as the liberals are not ashamed to show theirs either.
We cannot fall for their ploy of saying that since we are in a democratic society, we should not be talking about God in public, while they are all free to talk about their neo-pagan ideas. We have to talk more openly and consistently about God these days, precisely because of the moral confusion around.
Of course, we have to do this with utmost charity, which is what would really take place if one is truly with God. There will obviously be mistakes in this area, but these mistakes should not stop us. Rather they should make us think how we can correct them, and then on with the fight.
(Fr. Cimagala is the Chaplain of Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City. Email: roycimagala@gmail.com)
