How about an informal poll? Just out of curiosity, if kids were to show up on your doorstep on Saturday night, would you give them candy? I wouldn’t. Halloween is Sunday. Besides…the UberHusband and I are going out to dinner Saturday night.

The Associated Press reports that some American towns are decreeing that Halloween be celebrated on Saturday instead of Sunday Oct. 31 this year in order to avoid offending folks who might object to the sight of mini goblins and demons wandering around on the Sabbath.

“You just don’t do it on Sunday,” Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Ga., said of the trick-or-treating tradition. “That’s Christ’s day. You go to church on Sunday, you don’t go out and celebrate the devil.”

“That’ll confuse a child.”

If you’ve got such a problem with kids dressing up like a goblin or a witch or Pretty Pink Princess Barbie on the Sabbath that you have to shame your children by taking them out the night before, perhaps you should consider a move to Puyallup, Washington.

Assistant Superintendent Tony Apostle advised Puyallup principals in a memo last week that Halloween costumes and parties are now banned. Pumpkins and cornstalks are fine, he said, but witches, black cats or “similar decorations that are intended to frighten or scare individuals” are not.

Halloween is a religious holiday for Wiccans, the memo noted, and its celebration in mainstream culture has generated unsavory images that might offend real-life witches.

“Building administrators should not tolerate such inappropriate stereotyping (images such as witches on flying brooms, stirring caldrons, casting spells, or with long noses and pointed hats),” Apostle’s memo states.

Maybe I’m just cranky today but for chrissakes…people…please…quit making such a big deal out of everything! GAAAAAAH!!!