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10-29-2007, 07:25 AM
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School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches
I had to laugh (and shake my head) when I read this
Oh, my. What's next?! Although I can understand not wanting to do something on school time...the last 'reason' just seems silly to me.. 
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#2
10-29-2007, 11:10 AM
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Do they not realize that most people, including Wiccans and other pagans grew up loving Halloween?
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#3
10-29-2007, 11:15 AM
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They could tell the kids to dress up as George Bush with an axe through the middle of his head. Not too many of us would be offended by that.
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#4
10-29-2007, 11:38 AM
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As if the Wiccan religion has any ownership of Halloween.
edit: Like Christianity has any ownership of Christmas.
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#5
10-29-2007, 05:51 PM
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This is just silly, once again it shows that people knoe nothing about this history of a Holiday. Plus I really don't think most Witches, Wiccens, or Pagans. Most of us like the whole, dressing up and all. Sometimes it the only time of the year we do dress wired.
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10-29-2007, 06:08 PM
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Hear hear! 
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#7
10-29-2007, 07:26 PM
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If it was sincerely to remove negative stereotypes, they could just remove that element from the celebration. But it seems like they are using it as a cop-out. I am glad to see that people are taking neo-Paganism seriously, but it shouldn't be a scapegoat.
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#8
10-29-2007, 08:46 PM
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I wonder, if enough schools cancel Halloween celebrations because they say they're disrespectful to witches, will Evangelicals start demanding Halloween celebrations?
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#9
10-29-2007, 09:15 PM
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But don't you think it's the evangelical types themselves who actually THINK that the evil green witch on a broom stereotype is an acurate depiction of what "witchery" really is? I kinda think it's more humorous than disrespectful. (maybe I'm wrong, but I actually think that Halloween and HP and the like give TRUE scourcers & "spellers" a good cloak of "cover") A day of caricatured recognition might not be all bad. Last edited by UltraViolet; 10-29-2007 at 09:21 PM.
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10-31-2007, 01:23 PM
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