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Church's Anti-Halloween Flier Upsets Family
IBS ^ | October 20, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 10/20/2005 11:09:48 AM PDT by Millee

An Ellettsville family whose home is decorated for Halloween contacted police after someone placed on its porch a flier that suggests Halloween praises the devil.

Dalene Gully told Indianapolis television station WRTV that she took offense to the flier, which was placed outside her home by the House of Prayer Church of Bloomington.

"I started reading it, and I was very, very upset by it. I found it very accusatory and very threatening," Gully said.

The church's pastor, Larry Mitchell, said the people who left the flier would have preferred to talk with Gully, but she wasn't there.

Mitchell said the church didn't intend to upset the Gully family, but rather tell people that Halloween isn't harmless fun.

"Halloween is not fantasy," Mitchell said. "We're training up our children, and obviously this lady was trained up in this. Halloween seems like it is taking just as much prominence as Christmas."

The Gully family filed a complaint with the Ellettsville Police Department. The incident also prompted the family to install an alarm system at the home, the station reported.

"This is my home, and I like Halloween. If I want to decorate my home, I have every right to decorate my home," Gully said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: christhaters; cults; druids; halloween; idolatry; paganism
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To: gondramB
It sounds like over reaction on both sides.

Well said. Sounds like both of them were looking for something to get upset about.

21 posted on 10/20/2005 11:22:23 AM PDT by pa mom
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To: pa mom
These church people can "tell others" what ever they want to tell them-the others are not obligated to listen or obey. Unless the flyer was actually threatening or there is some law against leaving flyers on people's doorsteps, the church, while silly and obnoxious in my personal opinion, did nothing which warrants any sort of legal action.
22 posted on 10/20/2005 11:24:39 AM PDT by sanemom
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

"Trained up?"

Yeah, they're learnin' em good.


24 posted on 10/20/2005 11:25:35 AM PDT by sanemom
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To: Millee

Hard to comment on this without knowing the exact comments of the flier. Anything without that essential knowledge is pure speculation.


25 posted on 10/20/2005 11:26:34 AM PDT by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: sanemom

I don't think it warrents legal action either. But it was obnoxious and ridiculous. And it gives fuel to the anti-christians.


26 posted on 10/20/2005 11:27:14 AM PDT by pa mom
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Hey lady...

I too didn't care for local churches leaving pamphlets on my door. And waking me up to offer prayers.

But did I cry and run to mommy like a spoiled little brat?

No. I handled the problem myself < gasp! > through the ingenious use of a new-fangled thingamajig called a "No Tresspassing/No Solicitation" sign.

Just imagine, you too can solve even some of your own problems without making a court case out of it! Go on, drop your mommy's apron strings and do something yourself. I know it's hard, but you can do it! Once you experience the satisfaction of doing for yourself, you may be surprised to learn all the other things you can do... like turn the channel when you see something you don't like on TV.

27 posted on 10/20/2005 11:27:20 AM PDT by freeeee ("Owning" property in the US just means you have one less landlord.)
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To: Millee

"The incident also prompted the family to install an alarm system at the home, the station reported."

The flier was left on the porch not the kitchen table.


28 posted on 10/20/2005 11:27:30 AM PDT by tucker93
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To: The_Reader_David

The origin of halloween is brutal and inhumane. Do you know where the jack-o-lantern originated? I'll tell you. It was originally a hollowed out pumpkin that was fueled with fat from humans(sacrificed one of course). Nasty.
Okay, I don't feel threatened by a bunch of kids dressed as Superman going door to door trading jokes for candy. But, I do think it is appropriate for a God fearing church to say to it's parishoners that celebrating a Satanic/Pagan holiday might be unwise and disfavorable. Said churches are hardly "sorely deluded"-they are being responsible.


29 posted on 10/20/2005 11:28:39 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Millee

1) I'm not familiar with the news source, IBS. For now I'll assume it's credible.

2) This doesn't appear to be an excerpt, so why didn't the reporter print any part of the flyer? Using the word "suggests" is lazy and if the reporter couldn't see the original flyer to confirm it, the article should have said so.

3) If the reporter DID have the flyer in question, any quotes that made Christians look ridiculous would have been used (ahem) liberally throughout the article. As it stands, it was worded to make Christians look as bad as possible without any concrete evidence.


30 posted on 10/20/2005 11:28:46 AM PDT by Kieri
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To: Biblemeister
This thread needs more Baptists.

Why?

32 posted on 10/20/2005 11:28:58 AM PDT by Krodg
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To: Biblemeister
"I got a feva! And the only prescription ... is more baptists!"

[/cowbell]

33 posted on 10/20/2005 11:30:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Preachin'
I think it was poor taste and judgment, but threatening seems to be a great exxageration.

How anyone can decide if it was threatening or not without the text of the letter is beyond me.

34 posted on 10/20/2005 11:31:09 AM PDT by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. -- Proverbs 22:6


35 posted on 10/20/2005 11:31:24 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Go White Sox!!!)
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To: tucker93

I'd be po'ed if someone came on my porch to leave a flyer of ANY kind. That's trespassing. But I wouldn't go to the cops about it. I did yell at the guy coming to my door selling meat, though. Now that's odd.


36 posted on 10/20/2005 11:32:00 AM PDT by pa mom
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To: wideawake

Was there anything -- other than this lady's say-so --- which indicates that the flyer was in fact threatening?


37 posted on 10/20/2005 11:32:02 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Live and Let Live)
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To: wideawake

Agreed,
what they did was wrong.


38 posted on 10/20/2005 11:32:27 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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