..."To Serve God And My Country"

"On My Honor, I Will Try;
To Serve God And My Country,
To Help People At All Times,
And To Live By The Girl Scout Law."
The Girl Scouts are required to memorize that.  We recite it twice during our meeting.  It's a "promise".  Yet today I'm wondering exactly how many Girl Scouts actually understand what the line "To Serve God" means?  I'm fairly certain that the majority of girls are saying it just to say it..  What leads me to believe this?  Well, last night I attended two back to back meetings.  The first one was a Boy/Girl Scouts catholic religious awards meeting held by our church religious coordinator at St. Brendan's.  Tammy went over the various awards offered to kids who practice the catholic faith.  Immediately following that meeting I headed over to the Girl Scouts House for a leader meeting.  I took some of the information Tammy had given out at her meeting, with intentions to pass it along to the Girl Scout Leaders - thinking they could pass it along to the parents of the girls in their troops.  After all, there's really no other way for the parents to know that these awards even exist.  I was kind of shocked - for lack of a better word? - over the amount of leaders who made comments about how they don't discuss religion in their troops.  Most didn't even take the informational sheet I offered.  One of the leaders said something along the lines of: We say "God" when we do the Girl Scout Oath but that's the only time we mention anything about Him.  Another commented that she doesn't like to "push religion on others".  How is handing out religious awards information being pushy?  All I was asking was for them to put the info out there for the parents.  They don't need to take it...
It was almost as though the mere mention of the words God, Religion and Faith were taboo.  It left me feeling puzzled, disturbed & sad. 
I'm the last one to preach anything about religion, but as a practicing catholic I feel it's my duty to, at the very least, make information available to others.  And even if I weren't a practicing catholic I would STILL get the info out to the parents - because maybe THEY practice the catholic religion!
At my next Troop meeting I will be addressing this with the parents.  I will give them the same information I was given at the religious awards meeting last night.  What they do with it is their prerogative.  But I want them to know that in my troop, religion is not a taboo subject.  Whether you're catholic, protestant, jewish, etc. - you will not be judged by me.  I honestly don't understand why people feel that speaking about religion is offensive.  Are they ashamed of their religion?  Or ashamed that they don't practice religion?  I don't know..