American Heritage Girls. (Letters to the Editor).

I noted with interest the picture of the Girl Scouts selling cookies at a Gay Pride Parade ("Mainstreaming Homosexuality" by Isabel Lyman, June 16th issue of TNA). When I became a Girl Scout leader seven years ago, I knew something was wrong when they told me in leader training that if the issue came up, I could not tell the girls whether it was right or wrong to have premarital sex. "Oh, we can't impose our values on the girls," they said.

After four years, it was my girls who were complaining that the Girl Scouts wouldn't let them do many activities that the Boy Scouts were allowed to do, and I started looking around for alternatives for them. The following year we switched to Camp Fire Boys and Girls with an all-girl troop. I had grown up in California as a Camp Fire Girl in the '60s and I thought I could make it work. However, the year after we joined, they changed their name to Camp Fire USA and also changed their policies. The Camp Fire USA website states: "We are inclusive, open to every person in the communities we serve, welcoming children, youth and adults regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation or other aspect of ...