Republicans welcome new Girl Guides pledge

July 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Republicans have welcomed the scrapping of the Australian Girl Guides’ 50-year-old pledge to the Queen and to God.

The refreshed Girl Guides’ promise will see its 28,000-strong group promise to do their best “to be true to myself and develop my beliefs” rather than to “do my duty to God, to serve the Queen and my country”.

National director of the Australian Republican Movement, David Morris, said it was important young Australians developed an ethic of service to community and country.

“While Australians come from all over the world and often have emotional attachments to other countries, we have built, here in Australia, a unique community based on the values of a fair go and getting on with the job,” Mr Morris said in a statement on Friday.

“For the girls of the Girl Guides, and for all Australians, we should be proud of Australia’s heritage, such as being the first country in the world to introduce votes for women and to allow women to stand for parliament.”

The change to the pledge was introduced after 18 months of consultation with members and volunteers. The Girl Guides’ law has also been updated.

“Our members didn’t feel ‘duty to God’ reflected all faiths and belief systems across the world,” NSW Guides commissioner Belinda Allen told the ABC.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said his daughters and wife were all involved in Girl Guides, which he considers to be a fine organisation.

“In the end it’s up to them what sort of pledges they want to take,” he told the Nine Network on Friday.

“But speaking for myself, I don’t mind pledging to both God and the Queen. They are okay by me. I don’t want to drop either of them.”

The Australian Monarchist League (AML) slammed the move.

“If the Girl Guides think they will achieve greater numbers by removing the very essence of what they are, then I feel they are sadly mistaken,” AML national chair Philip Benwell said in a statement.

“At one time parents would send their daughters to the guides to encourage self discipline and leadership.

“Now it seems all they will get is a cringing towards political correctness.

“And all this to cater to those children or more probably their parents who have republican sympathies, or who are irreligious.”