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"Politics is the only game for adults." --from Robert A. Heinlein's Double Star

Sunday, October 24, 2004

MANY MANSIONS:
A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration.... The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches. "Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.
Read it HERE. (Thanks to Pagan Prattle.) How far will they go? Aren't Easter Eggs disrespectful too?
The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox.

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