Spiral Scouts: a pagan alternative children's organizations

My husband, raised by sensitive parents in the Bronx, once talked with me about how the B** Scouts were a paramilitary organization. Well, here's a REAL alternative. Although the sponsorship by a pagan church probably stands in the way of this organization's "mainstreaming," and although they have a really quite silly "dress outfit," this organization has some lovely goals. They are called SpiralScouts and I like them a lot. As a country kid, I was president of my local 4-H and I still have very warm feelings toward that organization. I remember being in brownies and didn't like it much (even then, I found the social interactions between females daunting), but 4-H was cool. You could do cooking or ... raise a pig. Simple. I cannot say how much I like the concept of an organization which is centered toward "minority faith" children. Frankly, given the echoing of jack-booted religious marches throughout our country, it makes a lot of sense that people who ARE minority faith, and who do NOT subscribe to the overarching "hey, we're right, whoever was the last to translate Jesus said so, and if they disagree with us, they're not real Americans so let's strip them of their civil rights and they're lucky that we don't hang them" feeling that is creeping through the dark alleyways of our country. Lousy sentence, but hey.