Atheist girl guide makes her promise

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An atheist girl guide has finally been able to make her promise after references to God were removed from the vow.

Sept. 15, 2013

Liz Blackburn, 22, from Bedgrove has been involved in girl guiding since she started as a rainbow at the age of five.

She is now a leader with the 12th Aylesbury Guides but she chose not to make her Girl Guiding Promise when first given the option aged 18 because of its religious overtones.

However, when it was announced in June that the Girl Guiding Promise would be changed Liz then had the opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition.

She said: “When I first had the chance to make my promise one of the lines in it was to promise ‘to love my God’.

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