Agree totally with frasersmummy. I too am a Brownie Guider and if there are one or two girls in my unit who feel strongly that they object to attending church (the two or three times a year we ask them to go), then as long as they explain beforehand then that is fine. However, to give no notice of intended non-attendance is just rude, and in fact the people who genuinely feel strongly that they/their daughter will not set foot in a church are in the absolute minority. It is mostly people who can't be bothered getting up on a Sunday morning, or who fancied going swimming instead, or whatever.
It's important to me that my Brownies understand that sometimes we have to do things that are not all about the fun, and that being a member of the unit carries responsibility as well as just coming along to meetings to make stuff and play games.
There are, not surprisingly, a lot of occasions when I don't feel like doing Brownies on a Tuesday, or when I don't feel like going to church Sunday (particularly last month, when I was still throwing up from MS, having had no sleep at all, about 15 minutes before I was due to be meeting Brownies), but I go, because it is my 'duty' that I have committed to. The girls are, to a far lesser extent, expected to feel some kind of duty about community events.
As I said, if there are genuine faith-related reasons why a girl shouldn't go that's fine, but you really should say upfront. It's rude to just not show for things. I'm not able to get away with that!
I do also agree that Guide members are supposed to be open to the idea of exploring their faith, whatever that may be, and to questioning what faith is, and a flat refusal to attend doesn't really suggest there is any openness to that.
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