Halloween in America is a purely secular holiday, a time of partying and festivity and spooks and scares, very like the old harvest festival/welcome to winter celebration it was in the old pagan era before the christian missionaries swiped it for its PR value.
another thing:
>in 1863, Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.
>Franklin Roosevelt set it to the next-to-last Thursday (in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season).
>Public uproar against this decision caused FDR to move Thanksgiving back to the final Thursday two years later.
>in 1941, Thanksgiving was sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, always to fall on the fourth Thursday in November.
'sides... Easter Sunday is a floater, too, so there's no bloody excuse even on a religious basis.
Point being: "Holidays" are flexible animals.
I can see NO reason this cannot be pursued.
I just don't know how to go about doing it.
I should like to point out that currently Daylight Savings Time ends on the last Sunday in October, sometimes coinciding with Halloween, as it did recently.
This put the kiddies out wandering the streets in the darkness, not a good idea.
With Halloween statuted on the last Friday of the month, this would never happen again.
It was originally a Christian holiday, "all halows eve" but like with Christmas, excuse me, X-mas as PC people are supposed to say now. I hate it how people are trying to remove all Christian meaning from holidays, then they say Santa shouldn't be allowed because that is mixing church and state, when it was the idiot secular people that invented santa.I say we should abandon all religious meaning from Christmas, let it be a day when people waste money, and celebrate Jesus' birthday on another day. You know America spent 220 billion dollars this last Christmas? Imagine if instead of spending all that money we had given it to the poor, seems completely wiping out poverty would be a better way to spend Christmas than