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December 17, 2013
A girl guide group faces being thrown out of the national association after refusing to force members to drop God from the oath.
Troop leaders have rejected new rules saying that the inclusion of God should not be compulsory but a matter of personal choice.
But they have now been sent an ‘aggressive’ letter ordering them to back down or leave GirlGuiding UK at the end of the month. Critics branded the approach a ‘move for exclusion’.
The Guiding Promise was altered earlier this year so that members now swear ‘to be true to myself and develop my beliefs’ rather than the original ‘to love my God’.
But Glynis Mackie, 55, who has been leading the 37th Newcastle Guide Unit in Jesmond for more than 25 years, said the new pledge ‘sidelined’ Christianity.
Mrs Mackie, added: ‘This is an example of people not realising the importance of faith, of all faiths, in our community.
‘I would go as far as saying that it is an example of faith being sidelined in society.’
‘I imagine changing the pledge was intended to include more people, but what it is actually doing is excluding those who have faith.
‘I understand why an atheist might not want to make a promise to God, and that is fine by me, but it has to be up to the individual.’
Mrs Mackie and the other leaders of the group slammed the new pledge as a ‘fridge magnet promise that doesn’t really mean anything’.
But Chief Guide Gill Slocombe insisted the move ‘opened our arms to welcome even more girls and adults, of all faiths – and none’.
The words ‘to be true to myself and develop my beliefs’ have replaced ‘to love my God’, and the words ‘to serve the Queen and my community’ will replace ‘to serve the Queen and my country’.
Girl Guiding’s chief commissioner in the North East has told the group their membership of the organisation will be ended on December 31.
