January 3, 2006

IN A BETTER DAY THE MOTHERS WOULD BE CAMPFIRE GIRLS (via Rick Turley):

Pagan scouting group takes root (Jeff Wright, December 28, 2005, The Register-Guard)

Five-year-old Jade Rainsong jumps out of his mother's car, looking sharp in his green pressed shirt, tan pants and brown hiking boots. "I've got on my SpiralScout uniform and mud-whompers!" he boasts.

Jade, new to the whole scouting experience, races to the door of his 4-year-old buddy, Joey. Inside, the two boys and five other youngsters - three of them girls - prepare for a Saturday afternoon of crafts, snacks and fun.

But this is not their parents' Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts - immediately evident when these kids gather around a coffee table and light candles in solemn tribute to earth, water, fire and air.

No, this is the SpiralScouts - the pagan version of learning outdoor skills and earning badges.


There's a kid who's destined for Camp Brokeback....

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 3, 2006 4:48 PM
Comments

For Gaia's sake, this is from Eugene, Oregon. I believe every person who lives there has a mental illness.

I used to live in the other Oregon city where everyone has a mental illness (Portland). BTW, I'm better now.

Posted by: pchuck at January 3, 2006 5:42 PM

Attacks on the Scouts sometimes sound reasonable in isolation so it is very helpful when the other side goes so far as to implement an alternative vision so that we can have a concrete comparison between 2 alternatives. Go Pagan Scouts!

Posted by: JAB at January 3, 2006 6:00 PM

It was their third choice in names, since "Young Pioneers" and "Hitler Youth" were already taken.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 3, 2006 6:18 PM

Camp Brokeback? More like Camp Matthew Hopkins.

Posted by: H.D. Miller at January 3, 2006 6:18 PM

will they be holding a jamboree in Enumclaw ?

Posted by: toe at January 3, 2006 6:36 PM


"There's a kid who's destined for Camp Brokeback...."

That would be funny if it weren't so true.

Posted by: NC3 at January 3, 2006 9:14 PM

Perhaps they could have pagan rituals in which they burn people alive in baskets shaped like animals, after the manner of the Druids.

Posted by: Lou Gots at January 3, 2006 9:34 PM

LOU:

Is that like South African necklace burnings?

Posted by: obc at January 3, 2006 9:48 PM

Gives new meaning to the chorus, "sing around the campfire..."

Posted by: Dave W at January 3, 2006 9:48 PM

"Perhaps they could have pagan rituals in which they burn people alive in baskets shaped like animals, after the manner of the Druids."

YEah - probably the parents and teachers who took 'em to a cockamamie group like this.

Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at January 4, 2006 3:31 AM

I just feel sorry for the boy named "Jade Rainsong." Sounds like a Thai hooker. Well, at least he'll learn how to fight.

Posted by: Bryan at January 4, 2006 6:59 AM

Bryan is right - he'll probably turn into a beer-swilling, womanising, huntin', shootin' and fishin' type.

Wasn't John Wayne called Marion? We had a famous wrestler called Big Daddy, whose real name was Shirley Crabtree.

Posted by: Brit at January 4, 2006 8:56 AM

Our real pagan ancestors were uber-masculine.
This sounds like new-agey mother-earth stuff.

Posted by: J.H. at January 4, 2006 9:18 AM

I would love to know Mother Rainsong's birthname. Shirley Lifshitz?

Posted by: David Cohen at January 4, 2006 10:25 AM

Lou, would you be happier if they burned witches instead?

Posted by: Robert Duquette at January 4, 2006 1:52 PM

Robert: The witches, sort of Druid-conversos themselves, were burned to keep the Druids from coming back.

I would not burn them now, unless it again became necessary. If that puts me in the oj camp, well, it does, but I'm keeping my SUV.

Posted by: Lou Gots at January 4, 2006 2:28 PM
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