Actually, many Christians are not following the traditional Halloween celebration with its ghouls, witches and other occult stuff. Harvest celebrations--hayrides, bonfires, bobbing for apples (yuck, all that spit!) are increasing in popularity. But yes, wearing the flag is a desecration...

Hold on, didn't Native Americans practice religions other than Christianity? Oh that's right he means dress up in stereotypical cheesy menacing "Indian" garb and ignore all other aspects of their culture.

Dobson is a pure asshat.

And your point, Valerie, is that yes, Dobson promotes desecration of the flag?

Funny, the "Harvest Celebrations" are more in line with the true traditional pagan traditions surounding the holiday.

It would be more accurate for Dobson's minions to focus on their bloody history. Early Christians destroyed the Celtic (aka pagan) culture of Western Europe and it's environs. They burned pagans at the stake -- and they'd do it again if they ever get the chance.

Boy, I love it when American Cheese cutters like Dobson get slapped by their own cheerleading stupidity. FITZ FOR PRETZ 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harvest Celebration is to Holloween what Intelligent Design is to Creationism

Funny that they abhor any type of spring (read: fertility) festivals, but they'll celebrate the harvest ones!

I think pagans should rise up and take back Christmas too. All the trappings were stolen from Mithras, but Merry Mithrasmas is too hard to say.

the true hypocricy of dobson's remarks are more couched in creeping liberalism w/in the christian right. what happened to the good ol days when evangelical christians actually forbid their kids prom participating in the pagan ritual...no jack-o-lantern...no trick or treating..invite the misguided youths in for a bible lesson...???

his flag idea is definitely a legal violation of the spirit of the law. he should be pubicly flogged w/ a cat of nine tails. maybe then he can be truthful about following in the footsteps of jesus. and just for good measure, he should be wearing g.h.w. bush's flag cowboy boots when the flogging takes place.

dobson is a plague...

Cool. Next year I'm going to dress the kids as Puritans. We can do a little American history tableau out in the front yard. I'll play Cotton Mather, and the kids can run around screaming about witches. Of course, we might run into some trouble getting someone to play a witch when we start dunking and hanging. Hmm. I'll have to think on that one.

It'll be so cool and christian! I just wish Dobson had gotten to me sooner with his great plan.

The scariest costume I could think of for Halloween was a historical one - the Spanish Inquisition! (picture here)

Dobson concerns himself with dressing up young children for his fantasies? Did someone say pedophile?

Being a former Girl Scout and a Patriot, I have been appalled at how little these flag-waving Nationalists know about flag etiquette. I have seen flags left out in the rain; flags that are so dirty and grimey from being attached to cars that you have to stare closely to see that they are American flags; flags hung sideways in doorways and windows and on and on. These people really believe they are being patriotic when in reality they are desecrating the flag they pretend to honor.

Hi Walter -

Actually, it was the Roman Catholic Church that most severely compromised Celtic culture throughout Europe in the early middle ages. Christianity in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Man, Cornwall and Brittany was a hybrid of pagan and Christian attitudes and practices -- see the Carmina Gadelica, Hymns, Prayers and Incantations published by Lindesfarne Press.

How about dressing up like some of those beloved real Christian heroes like Torquemada (The grand inquisitor) who tortured and executed non believers or the Salem Puritans who burned witches at the stake, or one of those crusaders who slaughtered the Muslim infidels. I mean, why not have your robotic Focus on the Family children dress up as people whose attitudes reflect the very same qualities embodied by Dobson, himself.

oh good god, make a crack about the fundies and it brings silly nationalists and romantics out of the closet.

you might be Irish or Scottish or Welsh or Galician or Breton or Manx or COrnish. you're not a medieval Celt. enough already. there's plenty of more recent Irish and British history to be genuinely upset about.