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
At best, Halloween may have been hijacked by homo culture but the traditions leading to the holiday far out date the homo movement.
Halloween has become the high holy day for many. It gets almost as much attention as Christmas.
IMO the “holiday” that most represents the American Culture of Death is Black Friday; that one comes with a predictable body count every year, and gets worse every year.
Lighten up, Francis. It’s just an excuse for kids to dress up and get some free candy. BFD.
Not this crap again.
There is always someone one either side that just seems out some of the most benign stuff to demonize.
In other words, Freud’s description of homosexuality as, basically, men who refuse to move out of adolescence. No mature adult - whether a gay man or Al Gore - wants to dress up in costumes and preen around.
Apparently, the homosexual is developmentally arrested in childhood.
Congratulations! You have started the first “Anti-Halloween/Evil Holiday” Post! Soon to be joined by MANY MANY OTHERS! yay!!!!.lol. Let the anti-Halloweenie games begin!
Its really not that serious. People seriously need to lighten UP about a silly Holiday.
The point of the article(s) is/are that it is not mere childhood that is now fixated on the various celebrations of Halloween, but grown adults.
All I got was a rock.
I didn’t realize this was an anti-Halloween rant, lol! I thought it was about gays stealing the holiday from children. It’s a wonderful time for little kids and their parents; not so much for single, adult men.
whoever wrote this is spending waaaaaay too much time in sanfranfreako.
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.
This is just more homos claiming the dead BS.
Especially when we. Consider real horrors like the Kenya mall massacre and Cleveland slave abductions, etc. that are living representations of demonic rampage. No need to build haunted houses anymore. Just make the kids sit through the news.
The author only need do an ebay search of Halloween postcards or decorations to see how popular the day was over 100 years ago in America.
Yep. These doom-and-gloomers have the same rhetoric to say about Christman or Easter or any number of US customs and events.
“They all have their origins in heathenism or the queers also celebrate this too - so BAN all these evil events.”
Phooey! I refuse to surrender to these types and accept their rigid rules.
Nope. Halloween is just one more thing they’re trying to steal.
I observe Halloween right along side the other holidays I value, MLK Day, Cinco de Mayo, May Day, Bosses Appreciation Day, and Ramadan. /sarc
I am locked up tight on that night.
My 10 y/o is going out with a long fake gray beard, camo clothes and a duck call.
I'm looking forward to an evening talking to the neighbors.
But for coaching HS baseball, and still being able to bat and throw with those kids at 63.
Best job I ever had!
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