Homosexuals are ruining Halloween!

[TripletDaddy]

Just received this email from the Obispo:

Last night, all stake presidents in California were asked by Elders Ballard, Clayton, and Dalton, to eliminate any competing interest over the next 7 days, so members can devote their maximum effort to the passing of Proposition 8. Therefore, the stake Trunk or Treat scheduled for Thursday night, October 30th, has been cancelled. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope that you will use the time you would have been at Trunk or Treat to get involved in a sign event, calling center, or other Proposition 8 activity. We hope that you and your children will enjoy trick-or-treating together in your neighborhoods on Halloween night.


Thank you,


The Stake Primary Presidency
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I have already spoken to my 3 year old triplets. They have been excited about trunk or treat for over a month. They took the news rather well and are supportive of our efforts to go stand on the corner with a sign asking cars to vote against gay marriage.

I am just grateful elections are in early November instead of the last week of December.

Interesting that the first real tangible negative effect of all of this is that the Ward takes away Trunk or Treat from the kids.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Just received this email from the Obispo:

Last night, all stake presidents in California were asked by Elders Ballard, Clayton, and Dalton, to eliminate any competing interest over the next 7 days, so members can devote their maximum effort to the passing of Proposition 8. Therefore, the stake Trunk or Treat scheduled for Thursday night, October 30th, has been cancelled. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope that you will use the time you would have been at Trunk or Treat to get involved in a sign event, calling center, or other Proposition 8 activity. We hope that you and your children will enjoy trick-or-treating together in your neighborhoods on Halloween night.


Thank you,


The Stake Primary Presidency
****************

I have already spoken to my 3 year old triplets. They have been excited about trunk or treat for over a month. They took the news rather well and are supportive of our efforts to go stand on the corner with a sign asking cars to vote against gay marriage.

I am just grateful elections are in early November instead of the last week of December.

Interesting that the first real tangible negative effect of all of this is that the Ward takes away Trunk or Treat from the kids.

I didn't know cars could vote. No wonder California so screwed up.

[RC Vikings]

Couldn't they just give the kids pamphlets to hand out along the way. The kids will be going door to door so it seems like a great way to really cover some ground.

[creekster]

I always disliked trunk or treat. It seemed like the kids were being cheated. Walk around the parking lot picking up candy. Whoop de la de doo. Make the kids wlak at least 50' between house for crying out loud.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by creekster

I always disliked trunk or treat. It seemed like the kids were being cheated. Walk around the parking lot picking up candy. Whoop de la de doo. Make the kids wlak at least 50' between house for crying out loud.

i am just guessing here, but I think trunk or treat is for the kids, not the grumpy older guys. I have yet to go to a trunk or treat and see the kids upset because they have easy access to candy.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

i am just guessing here, but I think trunk or treat is for the kids, not the grumpy older guys. I have yet to go to a trunk or treat and see the kids upset because they have easy access to candy.

It's all about learnign to work for what you get, pal. Plus, when everyone handing out the goods is somebody you know from church, what's cool about that? "Tell Sister Larsen thank you kids and then move over to Borther Hunt's minivan and be sure to be courteous." Blecccchhh. You want to run through the courts of your subdivision, tearing through flower beds, trqampling bushes, rudely grabbing handfuls of candy from the proffered bowl of the grouchy neighbor that you never see and whose name you don't know and don't care to learn all while sweating your guts out in a cheap costume from whose mask you can barely see as you dodge traffic while crossing over to the other side of he street. PLus, you occasioanlly find some homes creepy but you still need to GET MORE CANDY and so you push on. All of this is lost in the Trunk or Treat parade.

[BigFatMeanie]

Originally Posted by creekster

It's all about learnign to work for what you get, pal. Plus, when everyone handing out the goods is somebody you know from church, what's cool about that? "Tell Sister Larsen thank you kids and then move over to Borther Hunt's minivan and be sure to be courteous." Blecccchhh. You want to run through the courts of your subdivision, tearing through flower beds, trqampling bushes, rudely grabbing handfuls of candy from the proffered bowl of the grouchy neighbor that you never see and whose name you don't know and don't care to learn all while sweating your guts out in a cheap costume from whose mask you can barely see as you dodge traffic while crossing over to the other side of he street. PLus, you occasioanlly find some homes creepy but you still need to GET MORE CANDY and so you push on. All of this is lost in the Trunk or Treat parade.

Amen! Preach it Brother Creekster! Trunk or Treat is an abomination.

Your kids want candy? Why not just go down to Walmart, buy the 200 piece Val-U-Pak and hand it over to them? Wouldn't that be a lot more efficient if your goal is to just get your kids lots of candy?

I'm with Creekster - if the little shits want candy they've got to WORK for it. Trunk or Treat is for California Namby Pamby Wussies.

[Flystripper]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

Amen! Preach it Brother Creekster! Trunk or Treat is an abomination.

Your kids want candy? Why not just go down to Walmart, buy the 200 piece Val-U-Pak and hand it over to them? Wouldn't that be a lot more efficient if your goal is to just get your kids lots of candy?

I'm with Creekster - if the little shits want candy they've got to WORK for it. Trunk or Treat is for California Namby Pamby Wussies.

Trunk or treat is the trick or treat pre party. It does not replace actual trick or treating ...duh

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Flystripper

Trunk or treat is the trick or treat pre party. It does not replace actual trick or treating ...duh

Yes it did, my firend, yes it did.

For a while in the late 80s and the early to mid 90s here in NorCal good families everywhere believed that tainted candy and bladed apples and so forth were very common and only getting worse and so trunk or treat was adopted to take place IN LIEU of trick or treat. It was not fair to the kids, so I made my then young son trick or treat on his own, with the rule that I had to look through his candy before he ate it. THis admonition served to make sure it was safe and to let me take all the snickers and reese's out before he got to them. WIn-win.

BFM said it best: Trunk or treat is an abomination.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

Amen! Preach it Brother Creekster! Trunk or Treat is an abomination.

Your kids want candy? Why not just go down to Walmart, buy the 200 piece Val-U-Pak and hand it over to them? Wouldn't that be a lot more efficient if your goal is to just get your kids lots of candy?

I'm with Creekster - if the little shits want candy they've got to WORK for it. Trunk or Treat is for California Namby Pamby Wussies.

If the goal were simply to get candy, I would agree.

The goal is to do something fun that the kids in our stake really enjoy.

I can't imagine ever referring to kids in the same way you do, but then again, I am not big, fat, and mean.