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Scared straight?
Nobody said the church is supposed to be tolerant.
-- Keenan Roberts, associate pastor of the Colorado-based Abundant Life Christian Center, producers of the "Hell House" kit, a 270-page manual that instructs churches how to scare Halloween visitors with images of sin, such as of a man dying of AIDS, an abortion operation and a teen suicide. From: "Churches offer shocking scenes at 'alternative' haunted houses" in the Oct. 28 CNN Online.
SALON | Oct. 29, 1997