Boy scouts chairwoman ousted and berated for breastfeeding

[Prometheus Bound]

Boy scouts chairwoman ousted and berated for breastfeeding
posted: August 20, 2012, 5:13 pm

....According to SheKnows Parenting, an Ohio woman was ousted from her position as Boy Scout committee chair for breastfeeding during committee meetings. For the record, the son in question is not nearly old enough to be a Webelo.

The woman,Tess Kinker, enjoyed her position as committee chair for a year before she found herself, and her husband, a Wolf Pack leader, being voted off the committee. She was told the dismissal was the direct result of the “inappropriate and offensive” act of breastfeeding her baby during meetings.

Not only that, according to the unlatched Blog, Kinker was berated by the treasurer, a woman, who told her,

“There are issues with you breastfeeding! It’s disgusting! You even do it in regular shirts!”

After Kinker tried to defend herself and point out her discretionary measures, the secretary, also a woman, joined in on the finger wagging, allegedly shouting:

“there is NO reason I should have to explain to my 11-year-old daughter what you are doing under your blanket or shirt! It’s disgusting and has no place in the scouting organization.”

Kinker’s husband allegedly came to his wife’s defense, pointing out that public breastfeeding was a right by law. He was told that those rights did not stand in church, where the meetings were held.

http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/08202012boy-scouts-chairwoman-ousted-and-berated-for-breastfeeding/

longer article: http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/969015/boy-scout-committee-chair-dismissed-for-breastfeeding

Wackiest comment: “there is NO reason I should have to explain to my 11-year-old daughter what you are doing under your blanket or shirt! It’s disgusting and has no place in the scouting organization.”

[LeftyMom]

1. An eleven year old kid who doesn't know how mammals feed their babies

is the victim of educational neglect.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. +1

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. That is just awful!

[gollygee]

4. WOw

More reasons every day to dislike the BSA.

[arcane1]

5. Oh the horror! She's exposing her nipple to a helpless BABY!!!!! Traumatizing the poor thing!!1

*gasp and swoon* won't somebody think of the CHILDREN????

[ibegurpard]

6. Why are people bringing infants to committe meetings?

the breast-feeding thing is a non-issue to me.

[gollygee]

7. It was about a kids organization

and someone was concerned about their 11-year-old girl. There must be families at the meetings.

[ibegurpard]

10. just because it's about a kids organization doesn't mean it's an appropriate place for infants

Committee meetings are for organizational planning...there are reasons we don't take infants to work and other similar venues. They can be very disruptive. The comments about the breast-feeding are completely disgusting and ridiculous but, in my opinion, the baby shouldn't have been there in the first place.
And the eleven-year old shouldn't be there either unless she can sit quietly.

[Prometheus Bound]

13. I've read three articles on it and none of them mention the baby's presence was an issue.

So perhaps they are rather informal affairs.

Horror of horrors, she also did it at the Hartville Chocolate Factory.

Then, my secretary (the treasurer’s best friend) stood up and pointed her finger in my face SHOUTING “there is NO reason I should have to explain to my 11 year old daughter what you are doing under your blanket or shirt! It’s disgusting and has no place in the scouting organization. You even did it at the Hartville Chocolate Factory!”

http://unlatched.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/boy-scouts-committee-chair-voted-off-for-breastfeeding-son/

[JoePhilly]

8. The right wing is filled with crazy people. Shun them, and the groups they join and pervert.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Breastfeeding is banned in church??

Did Mary breastfeed Jesus??


When you hold meetings in a church that are not about religion, it is just a building ........... stupid people

[Politicalboi]

11. Unbelievable

And Dog forbid in a church. How did we come this far that a mother complains about having to tell her 11 year old about natural things. Was this woman on stage preforming this? LOL!
I'm glad baby Jesus had clean glass bottles to drink goats milk in.

Have they stopped mother daughter meetings at schools about reproduction? I remember going to those. I hated them being a tomboy and all. But even though I wasn't exposed to breast feeding at home I did see it happen at friends houses who's mothers had newborns. It wasn't disgusting. I was oblivious to the inevitable, I asked my mom at the age of 10 when we got home where do those big napkins go?

[jberryhill]

12. In legitimate baby feeding, the "juices don't flow"

[qb]

14. The GSA would do boys a great favor if they changed their name to "Scouts" and opened membership

to boys and girls. We need an alternative to the bigoted BSA.

[LeftyMom]

15. Camp Fire has been co-ed for decades.