Posted on 10/08/2013 8:39:55 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
Since Halloween, the holiday that best represents the culture of death, is coming up, I wanted to post something about this side of it. These articles argue that Halloween was made an adult holiday by the homosexual culture, which seems to be partly true. But the subjects of Satan, death, evil and the demonic were actually adult concerns to begin with. How tragic that the Satanic has been so embraced that people wear around skeletons on their clothes, and that includes little children as well. We can pray as Christians that their spiritual eyes would be opened to the evil they're embracing! I just want to add that I didn't post about this subject to attack people living a homosexual lifestyle. I used to be one of those people, and I know that we are all sinners, just not in all the same ways exactly.
Halloween: America's Gay Holiday, Irene Monroe, Huffington Post
"Back in the day Halloween, the night before All Hallows Day (All Saints Day), was linked to the ancient Celtic festival Samhain in the British Isles, meaning "summer's end." And because the celebration is associated with mystery, magic, superstition, witches and ghosts, the festivity, not surprisingly, was limited in colonial New England because of its Puritanical belief system...But today it's an LGBTQ extravaganza that rivals -- if not out-showcases -- Pride festivals."
"Nicholas Rogers, author of Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, points out that while Halloween is enjoyed by everyone, "it has been the Gay community that has most flamboyantly exploited Halloween's potential as a transgressive festival, as one that operates outside or on the margins of orthodox time, space, and hierarchy. Indeed, it is the Gay community that has been arguably most responsible for Halloween's adult rejuvenation."
"As Halloween flourishes as a gay cultural phenomenon, so, too, flourished a backlash by the fundamentalist Christians with their "Hell Houses."
"And these Christians targeted our children.
"(Believing Hell Houses are no longer up and running in 2011, I'll speak of them in the past tense.)
"Hell Houses were a contemporary form of both anti-gay bullying and witch-hunting. Created in the late 1970s by the Reverend Jerry Farwell, the deceased fundamentalist pastor, Hell Houses were religious alternatives to traditional haunted houses. They were tours given by evangelical churches across the country designed to scare and bully people away from myriad sins. And one of those sins is homosexuality."
Halloween craze started in gay culture, David Frum, CNN
"Halloween is a holiday with ancient pagan roots, but the modern extravaganza of candy, pumpkins and sexy nurse costumes is as American as the Fourth of July. Some folklorists trace Halloween to an ancient Celtic holiday in the British Isles. But until recently, the British had long forgotten the day: Two decades ago, Halloween hardly existed in the United Kingdom, never mind continental Europe or Japan.
"All that has changed in the blink of an eye. Halloween has gone global -- and Halloween's success tells us something interesting about the modern world."
"Halloween is overwhelmingly an adult holiday. This year, for example, Americans spent an estimated $800 million on costumes for children, $1 billion on costumes for adults. Where did that adult dress-up party begin?
"As best we can tell: in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. In the 1970s, that neighborhood emerged as the heart of a new home-owning, bourgeois, coupled gay community. A local variety store had long sponsored a Halloween street festival for kids. In the 1970s, the street festival transitioned into an adult party of lavish costumed theatricality. The "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" -- a troupe of transvestite nuns -- got their start here."
Halloween: the Great Gay Holiday
"October is an important month in our Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and transgender calendar. October is GLBT History Month, a month devoted to dis-covering and celebrating our past. On October 11, we observe "Coming Out Day", a day in which we "take the next step" in our ongoing, coming-out process. But while both GLBT History Month and Coming Out Day are of recent origin, this month’s most popular queer holiday predates recorded history and captures the essence of sex and gender variance to a much greater degree than do the activist holidays. Just open the pages of any queer paper during the first weeks of November and you will see what our communities were doing on October 31st. In the words of the Lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is "the great gay holiday."
Halloween: The gay high holy day, Dallas Voice
"Over my protests, my mother assured me that boys dressing up as girls and girls dressing up as boys would be perfectly acceptable on Halloween. So yes, I wound up going out wearing one of my mother’s dresses that night. But I didn’t stay out very long, and every time someone approached or a car passed I darted behind some bushes or dived into a ditch.
"When I returned home about an hour later I hadn’t knocked on any doors, and I had an empty Halloween bag. It was about then that I decided I had outgrown Halloween along with Santa Claus.
"I have no idea why my mother thought cross-dressing was appropriate, and I’m sure she would have been hard pressed to have backed up the argument. But it would appear that she was oddly on track.
"All I can deduce is that everyone — regardless of their perspective — realizes Halloween is a night where the unorthodox will be the norm."
"Then the tide began to change. First came the many trick-or-treating food scares, which started to force Halloween off the streets and into homes and party halls. Then, in the late 1980s, Halloween merchandise began to appear as early as back-to-school time, before Labor Some people have traced the new adult fascination with Halloween to an inability to mature. Baby boomers wanted to have as much fun as heir children. But does this explain why Halloween suddenly shot up the charts, becoming a legitimate adult holiday with sales revenues second only to Christmans sales?
Changing baby boomer attitudes probably had something to do with a surge in the grown-up dollars given over to the holiday, but I also don't think we can underestimate the gay influence. In the last twenty years, in cities all across the nation, Halloween has become larger than life through gay parades and celebrations. And as the years go on, straight people are looking more toward the gay community to define a Halloween celebration."
Halloween for adults: The gays did it! Chicago Now
It is what it always was, a day to dress up and get free candy FOR MINORS. Adults may have “fancy dress” parties but it is not or has never been the weirdo fest alleged by the left wing propaganda rags.
Then you are sadly uninformed.
Just next door to me in Dallas is a MASSIVE public homosexual Halloween street party. This is repeated in dozens of large cities nationwide. It is indeed a coast-to-coast weirdo fest.
Satan uses many things, including the homosexuals, but the root of it is still Satan and unregenerate man fulfilling his wishes.
I suppose we should ban Mardi Gras too.
Who said anything about banning anything?
It's morphed into something you possibly wouldn't recognize, starting at the fag end of the 20th century and accelerating since the beginning of the 21st.
Did you read the article?
In California Halloween became an adult day decades ago.
One of the funniest things is, that while a man dressing up as a woman for Halloween used to be rare and funny in the 1960s, in recent decades in California one couldn’t help but notice how many straight men were doing it, it was clearly way beyond just the coincidence of a few guys choosing the same costume.
Halloween is a large drag show in Dallas’ queer center. While these homos insist that they are men, they repeatedly portray themselves as women. A very telling disorder.
Ridiculous.
Good Lord.... *rolls eyes*
Avoid the Castro distrct in San fran on Halloween.
AND all 364 days in between.
Some people go hog wild with goofy decorations. I see that as harmless fun.
The trend that concerns me is the trend toward goriness in the paper stores and transient Halloween stores. Some of the stuff is very morbid and gruesome.
Goriness has always had an appeal to a segment of society. Some people like the shock value, but other people seem to have a perverse liking for it. I've lived for a while, and I've noticed a rapid and disturbing increase in interest.
I see it as more of a reflection of our culture's declining spiritual state, rather than a cause of it.
True. Halloween costumes used to be cartoon-ish, very unreal and decidedly fantasy. Nowadays, they try to replicate the gore in a shockingly realistic manner.
Try Fantasy Fest in Key West - their parade is the Saturday before Halloween, I believe. Castro has nothing on them.
Spare us please from two-penny intellectualization. It's an occasion that gives people already inclined that way to dress up and play Make Believe. That isn't only gay people, but it's a whole lot of them.
We just finished Sukkot. Purim is five months away.
“All I got was a rock. “
I just KNEW that would be one of the comments.
Just surprised it took so long.
Two words: Key West
nudity and public copulation do not count as costumes.
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