First the War on Christmas, then the War on Food, now comes the War on Halloween:

Say a prayer, a spell, or a demonic incantation for Halloween. This October, as in past Octobers, many schools are refusing to celebrate the holiday. Others have recast it as “Fall-o-Ween” or “Orange and Black Day” or, in words carefully calibrated to be as generic as possible, the “Fall Festival.” In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, one councilman—nominally a Republican, but spiritually a member of the Everything Not Prohibited Is Compulsory Party—has reacted with a resolution to require his county’s schools to hold Halloween parties.

I don’t approve of his solution, but I understand his aggravation. The War on Halloween, as The Denver Post’s David Harsanyi has dubbed it, unites some of the most obnoxious elements of the left, the right, and the center—a Halloween coalition of Halloween-haters. Lined up like that, they demonstrate the most essential fact about the culture war. It doesn’t really pit the left against the right. It pits the culture warriors against everyone else.

Blame, the usual suspects: religious busybodies and politically correct nannies. They should join forces and get a political candidate of their own. Oh wait…

In any event, read the rest here. And while you’re at it, read this tract from Jack Chick.

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