Halloween is jokingly often called ‘gay Christmas’ but this Conservative momfluencer seems to have taken the tongue-in-cheek moniker literally and has denounced the spooky holiday as “satanic”, not to mention “intertwined with ‘LGBTQ pride’”.
Vanity Fair reports that on a recent episode of her podcast, Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative influencer and friend of the late right-wing figure Charlie Kirk, she didn’t expressly state that Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween but she did warn that there are “evil spiritual principalities at work.”
The “evil spiritual principalities” she was warning about were, you guessed it, LGBTQ+ people. In other words, we gays, who love Halloween so much that we’ve ruined it for nice, straight god-fearing people like her.
In a warning to her followers, she stated: “There is, I would say, a big intertwining of Pride and LGBTQ pride with Halloween. People are kind of pushing back against sexual norms through their costumes and through their celebrations.”
It’s not the first time in recent months that Stuckey has spotted demonic influences at play. In August, she spoke out against the popularity of KPop Demon Hunters, citing it as an example of creeping “paganism.”
During the Halloween episode, she also played a video shared by Christian influencer Forrest Frank claiming that Halloween is the “highest day” for satanists and “the night of the year where there is the most human sacrifice on the whole planet.” This is, it goes without saying, not true. Unless by “human sacrifice” you mean “twinks sacrificing their virtue behind a Dairy Queen while dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo.”
Stuckey also cited the widely-discredited theory of satanic ritual abuse in her Halloween episode, which was a mass panic in the 1980s, where false and lurid news reports claimed satanists were preying on children.
At the end of the episode, she admits that she does actually allow her three young daughters to participate in Halloween, despite the fact that, as she puts it, it’s “a high holiday for the satanic church,” explaining: “We do allow our kids to dress up in fun costumes. We do allow them to go to a select few houses and get some candy.
“We don’t do anything crazy. We don’t do scary movies.” Presumably she means horror movies, rather than “movies with gay people in them,” but who knows.
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