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HALLOWEEN HELL: Haunted House Aims to Show Teens the 'Wages of Sin'
Abortion is back at this year's "Halloween Hell House" -- a yearly event sponsored by Colorado's Abundant Life Christian Center that aims to make teens "think about the ramifications of the choices they make" -- and this year's haunting will also include scenes on the perils of teen sex and an AIDS-related death. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reports that visitors will see a gay couple's marriage bed be "replaced a few years later with a hospital bed as one of the partners dies of AIDS." In another scene that "mourns lost virginity," a girl who has just slept with her boyfriend in her parents' bed while they are out of town is told by a "demon guide": "The dog you just slept with is Prince HIV, and he doesn't even know it!" Associate Pastor Keenan Roberts said he hopes to "have the seed of faith planted, renewed or confirmed" in every visitor to Hell House. "Things for young people are not getting any better. We need to continue to be as bold as we have ever been with the message that sin brings destruction, but that Jesus saves and forgives," he said. But Suzanne Banning, executive director of the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project, said, "It's tough to comment on something that's so ignorant. We see committed, monogamous relationships that deserve recognition and don't end up in the way this is portrayed -- with death and destruction" (Lindsay, Denver Rocky Mountain News, 9/29).
Abortion is back at this year's "Halloween Hell House" -- a yearly event sponsored by Colorado's Abundant Life Christian Center that aims to make teens "think about the ramifications of the choices they make" -- and this year's haunting will also include scenes on the perils of teen sex and an AIDS-related death. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reports that visitors will see a gay couple's marriage bed be "replaced a few years later with a hospital bed as one of the partners dies of AIDS." In another scene that "mourns lost virginity," a girl who has just slept with her boyfriend in her parents' bed while they are out of town is told by a "demon guide": "The dog you just slept with is Prince HIV, and he doesn't even know it!" Associate Pastor Keenan Roberts said he hopes to "have the seed of faith planted, renewed or confirmed" in every visitor to Hell House. "Things for young people are not getting any better. We need to continue to be as bold as we have ever been with the message that sin brings destruction, but that Jesus saves and forgives," he said. But Suzanne Banning, executive director of the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project, said, "It's tough to comment on something that's so ignorant. We see committed, monogamous relationships that deserve recognition and don't end up in the way this is portrayed -- with death and destruction" (Lindsay, Denver Rocky Mountain News, 9/29).