Church's Anti-Halloween Flier Upsets Family
Complaint Filed With Police
UPDATED: 10:09 am EDT October 20,
2005
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ELLETTSVILLE, Ind. -- An Ellettsville family whose home is decorated for Halloween contacted police after someone placed on its porch a flier that suggests Halloween praises the devil.Dalene Gully told Indianapolis television station WRTV that she took offense to the flier, which was placed outside her home by the House of Prayer Church of Bloomington."I started reading it, and I was very, very upset by it. I found it very accusatory and very threatening," Gully said.The church's pastor, Larry Mitchell, said the people who left the flier would have preferred to talk with Gully, but she wasn't there.Mitchell said the church didn't intend to upset the Gully family, but rather tell people that Halloween isn't harmless fun."Halloween is not fantasy," Mitchell said. "We're training up our children, and obviously this lady was trained up in this. Halloween seems like it is taking just as much prominence as Christmas."The Gully family filed a complaint with the Ellettsville Police Department. The incident also prompted the family to install an alarm system at the home, the station reported."This is my home, and I like Halloween. If I want to decorate my home, I have every right to decorate my home," Gully said.
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