Girl Scouts camp: Hiking, archery, and 'Pride' indoctrination

We are halfway into Pride Month, and I have already seen a year's worth of cringeworthy behavior.Take the recent viral video from Washington state. A local high school played host to a drag show, in which adult men twerked in front of children of all ages in the name of Pride.What we are witnessing in June is no longer about tolerance. It is a full-throated campaign to reach children before they are old enough to think critically.Not at a bar. Not at an adults-only venue. On a school campus, during a school-sponsored event, in front of kids. Parents who raised concerns were treated like the problem.From ABC to LGBTQNor is Pride limited to in-person parades or parties. The popular show Blue's Clues — geared toward kids as young as 2 — has aired a Pride sing-a-long, featuring anthropomorphic trans male beavers with post-op top surgery scars. Sesame Street also introduces its young viewers to Pride Month, celebrating gay marriage for good measure. Parents who think these programs will help their kids learn to count and spell are in for a rude awakening.I wish I could say this still surprises me. But it doesn’t — not after decades of watching an ideology inch its way closer and closer to children, first into universities, then high schools, then middle schools, and now into elementary classrooms and summer camps.I have learned to recognize the pattern. What used to be shocking has become customary. And that normalization is precisely the point.What we are witnessing in June is no longer about tolerance. It is a full-throated campaign to reach children before they are old enough to think critically about what they're being told.'The girl experience'Consider what is happening in Girl Scout camps this summer. The organization's latest Camp Culture Code defines a child's biological sex as sex assigned at birth. Not a gift from God. An assignment. As if the Creator made an error and a stranger in a lab coat had to correct it on his clipboard. This is how they're talking to 9-year-olds at summer camp.The code further states that this sex may differ from how a person understands themselves to be. Does this mean boys will be at Girl Scout camp? The answer may confuse you:Our camps serve cisgender girls, gender-expansive youth, non-binary youth, and trans-girls and trans-boys. ... We have expanded our understanding of who belongs at Girl Scouts, as well as our commitment to serving all youth who identify with the girl experience.This is indoctrination, pure and simple — and it has been going on for a long time.RELATED: ‘Even Elmo has fallen victim’: Sara Gonzales blasts ‘Sesame Street’ for ‘demonic’ Pride propaganda Blaze MediaDefending God's designI know this firsthand, because it was watching exactly this kind of ideological drift that led me and a group of Cincinnati moms to found an alternative to Girl Scouts in 1995. Not because we wanted to shelter our girls from the world, but because we refused to let an organization entrusted with their formation use that trust to push an ideology that contradicted everything we believed to be true about womanhood, biology, and God's design. We knew our daughters deserved better.We started with just 10 troops; today, American Heritage Girls has over 70,000 members in all 50 states. That growth reflects tens of thousands of outraged parents who have voted with their feet, choosing an organization that tells girls the truth: that they are created female on purpose, that their femininity is a gift worth celebrating, and that God does not make mistakes.This summer, we will continue to equip parents, Troop leaders, and faith communities with our Raising Godly Girls Guide to Gender and Identity, specifically to give parents language and tools to help their daughters navigate what has become a relentless ideological assault.Biblical or bustBecause the hard truth is that if parents don't arm their kids with a biblical worldview, other adults will be happy to step in with their own way of seeing things.They will try to pass it off as education and label anyone who pushes back as bigoted. But parents speaking out to shield their impressionable young children from half-baked, politically motivated theories about sex deserve support, not scorn.The moms I talk to across this country are not hateful. They are not afraid of people who are different from themselves. They are simply unwilling to hand their daughters over to a worldview that treats biology as a mistake and childhood as an opportunity for ideological recruitment. The good news is that they are not alone. I will keep speaking up. I hope every parent will, too.