[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Information from the site includes quotes from "Occult Crime Control: The Law Enforcement Manual of Investigation, Analysis, and Prevention," concerning the problem of "self-styled Satanists" in high school students.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Please send this info to non-FReeper teachers, parents and students.

Thanks.

[Red Badger]

Why not recognize it for waht it is/was? All Hallows (Saints) Eve? The night before All Saints' Day, originally a Catholic holy day? Nothing evil in that..............

[Horatio Gates]

I prefer the ghoulish as part of my Halloween.

Of course the reason the schools in my neck of the woods went to "Fall Festival" was to not offend practicing witches. Geesh!

[Tim Long]

Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.

[Mister Baredog]

GTBE, isn't that a gay advocacy group? < kidding > LOL

[Minn]

Here's what you need to do if you're concerned about this: chill.

[rattrap]

OMG!! Someone, somewhere is having fun, we must put a stop to it!

[Leg Olam]

Aw, cmon...we're a long way from what 'All Hallows Eve' used to be back in the get-down and party days of the Druids. Sheesh! Keep it Halloween not some warm fuzzy excuse of a Holiday.

[Wolfie]

And remember! It's not Christmas anymore, its the "Holiday Season".

[freedumb2003]

Bu-rother.

Right Wing Political Correctness is just as stupid as Left Wing Political Correctness.

Halloween has always been a fun time for the kids and adults. It also lets us address and laugh at Death and Evil.

I know a place where you can get a loan and rent a life.

[itslex71]

Sheesh. This is just as bad as what the libs do with making Christmas a "Winter Holiday".

[tutstar]

ping

[SmithL]

Is this satire or unintentional silliness?

[elbucko]

If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult

Oh for Christ's sake, give it a break! Halloween is nothing more than a harmless ancient pagan celebration of the Druid New Year. Let the kids have their fun. You can thump them on the head with a Bible the following Sunday.

[Mike Darancette]

Bring back Samhain.

[PeteB570]

I find the whole idea a load of BS.

Halloween is Halloween, Christmas is Christmas and Easter is Easter.

Religious wackos come in all religions.

[ShadowDancer]

Just for this post I am now insisting the my children dress up as Wiccans.

[bilhosty]

What is this some kind of conservative reverse political correctness? Let Halloween be Halloween.

[Corin Stormhands]

If you don't want to participate in or celebrate Halloween, I respect that. But let's be honest, most "Fall Festivals" are just Halloween carnivals in drag.

You still have the pumpkins, the candy, the costumes (but not the "scary" ones). What's the real difference?

At our former church they advertised that kids should come as their favorite Disney or Biblical character.

Wife and I had a hard time deciding between Cruella de Vil, Rahab the Harlot or the Witch of Endor.

[Clemenza]