Halloween: How does your family celebrate holiday these days?

There was a time in Texarkana when the evening streets were filled with children in colorful costumes on the last day of October.

In those days Halloween was a big deal. Kids went door to door, bags in hand, returning home after they were filled with a variety of sweet treats.

But what about today?

With the holiday fast approaching, we want to know if you and your family still celebrate Halloween. Do your children still go trick or treating? Do they go to parties? Do they attend a festival at your church? How do you celebrate Halloween?

Send your response (50 words maximum) to [email protected] by Wednesday, Oct. 25. You can also mail your response to the Texarkana Gazette Friday Poll, at P.O. Box 621, Texarkana, TX 75504 or drop it off at our office, 101 E. Broad St., Texarkana, Ark. Be sure to include your name, address and phone number. We will print as many responses as we can in next Friday's paper.

 

Last Week: Boy Scouts

Last week's question was about the Boy Scouts of America's decision to start welcoming girls as members. Should the Boy Scouts accept girls as members? Or are you opposed to the decision?

 

Do Girl Scouts not have a distinguished merit badge in comparison to the Boy Scout "Eagle Scout"? Are they short on merit badges? If so why? I don't understand, why the girls are not satisfied. I wonder what triggered it? Makes no sense to me.-B.J., Texarkana, Texas

 

Mixing genders, they will be neither, boy scouts, nor girl scouts. They have submitted to the advocates for homosexuals, to include openly gay scouts, then leaders, and now bowing to promoters of feminism and transgenderism. Abandoning the Scouts oath, (duty to God, to be morally straight), they are accepting the agenda(s) of those who have essentially taken an oath to ungodly agendas.-D.H.M.,, Texarkana, Ark.

 

No, girls should not be allowed in Boy Scouts. As far as the Eagle Scout award, Girl Scouts have the Bronze, Silver, and Gold awards with the Gold being the equivalent of the Eagle. Girls also don't need to be at camp with boys. It totally changes the whole idea of camp. I know. I went to Girl Scout camp for 5-6 years. The one year I went to church camp where there were boys and girls, the girls spent the whole time putting on makeup and trying to look good for the boys. Girl Scout camp was more about learning skills and being in nature because they weren't worried about what the boys would think.-C.H., Texarkana, Texas

 

From www.facebook.com/texarkanagazette

  •  It won't be Boy Scout anymore. This is the second big mistake that the national board has made. It is just one more effort of the globest to destroy the fiber that makes America who we are.
  •  It seems like an odd decision. Joining the Boy Scouts and the Girls Scouts together makes more sense to me. I don't think it's a bad thing but IMO if you want to be more inclusive they should just join together and be "The Scouts."
  •  Seriously? This should even be an issue? Now let's add boys to Girl Scouts. Or make it all one and call it 'Scouts.' See how long that lasts at camp when they all shower and pee together.
  •  Why not? Some girls feel more comfortable around boys, and vice versa some children this age can even begin to identify as trans. What's the point in segregating based on gender?
  •  Do the girls even WANT to be a part of the BSofA? They have the Gold Award available in the Girl Scouts organization Or is this part of the marketing plan for positive light on the BSofA with their troubled past of late?
  •  Opposed. There are enough children in our world having to deal with sexual abuse. Why would anyone want their baby girl to share a bathroom, sleeping quarters, etc. With boys? It is consider child abuse and neglect if a brother and sister share a bedroom after a certain age at home, what makes this not the same? Why add to a real extreme problem? Keep the kids separate. If a girl want to participate in an activity the boys do just add it to the girls agenda without putting them together. This will end badly with a lot of lawsuits because of abuse. No!
  •  It doesn't matter what we think. I was told tonight it was up to the troop and our local troop says no girls allowed. We don't have a Girl Scout troop local at all so there that goes.
  •  About to get where you better keep your kid at home, before you know it pedophiles will file grievances on the state because they can't play with kids anymore.
  •  Stay separate! Asking for trouble if girls are allowed to be in boy scouts!
  •  Guess men will be in Miss America next year as well
  •  What? Girls aren't good enough? Grow up neanderthals. It's 2017
  •  The whole scouting movement is lost. There are now good Christian alternatives.
  •  There is a reason its called "BOY" Scouts.
  •  Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts. End of story.
  •  Big mistake.
  •  Opposed.
  •  Stay separate!

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