Should a religious ed class participate in a Halloween haunted house?

[4everserving]

My child’s religious education class is thinking about selling food at our town’s annual Halloween haunted house called “Evil Hill.” I am not comfortable with the idea but the teachers think they can put a religious spin on it to make it okay to raise money. What do you think? My child is 14 and I feel she is very impressionable. Isn’t the problem nowadays that everybody finds a reason to justify doing what they want to? I am at a loss as to what to say to the teachers.

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

Selling food at a Halloween haunted house as a fundraiser for a teenage Catholic religious education class is not wrong. While we might wish the haunted house was given some other name, that name is not inherently wrong either. If you don’t think your daughter mature enough to participate in the fundraiser, let her teachers know and ask that she be excused. But I do not think that protesting this particular fundraiser is a battle worth fighting.