The Jesus Church of Latter-day Saints and some of its members fought back against criticism Friday after a flier for a Halloween event said no ‘cross gender’ costumes were allowed, Utah’s Fox13 reported.
The flier for the trunk-or-treat-event, an LDS event where kids trick-or-treat in the parking lot of one of the religious centers, also specified that the children not wear masks.
Raquel Smith, a Sandy, Utah mother, told Fox13 that she felt the event sends the wrong message to the children.
"It has everything to do with not loving your fellow man because they choose to dress a specific way," Smith, who is not a Mormon, told the station.
Then, Raquel - don't go to the friggin' party.
Seriously? Maybe this mother can remove the pole from her ass and thank the Mormons for hosting an event where her little Octavius or Pollyanna can go and get some candy, bob for apples, and just have fun. Because not every get-together has to cary some political or social message.
When I was a school Mom at St. Joseph in Santa Ana, CA, we had this issue ach year because part of the Mexican culture thinks - ha, ha - it's funny for guys, in cluding biys, to don drag as a costume. That's okay to a certain point - but one year, we had a 7th grader show up in a costume that can only be described as Drunk Fat Chick, which included the word "boobs" written across the front of the tube top and a tramp stamp in the lower back. No, that was not going to fly and the principal and pastor said, "Sorry - you're not in the school parade." Nowadays, I'm afraid the principal might check first to see if the kid's parents pay full tuition, but that was the policy then.
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When we were five and six, my mother dressed my brother and me as a boy Chinese person and a girl Chinese person.....only I was the boy and he was the girl. We fooled all of the neighbors...I think it was the shoes (we wore each others' regular shoes). I guess we weren't being very PC. But, hey, this was 1957.
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