Slog - Comments on Because Christmas Wasn't Enough http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm While Savage has his panties in a knot about religious extremists on the other side of the world, this idiocy just arrived in my inbox: For immediate release Contact: Kim Lund waronstvalentinesday@yahoo.com www.waronstvalentinesday.com C-YA! (Catholic Youth Abstaining) to Protest the War on SAINT Valentine's Day! A demonstration in front of See's and Hallmark's on Tuesday, February 7 at noon in Westlake Center What are you going to buy for your loved ones on February 14? A Valentine's Day card? Or a SAINT Valentine's Day card? Why Are We Protesting? Because there is a war on Saint Valentine's Day. Our commercialized,... Copyright 2007 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:33:33 -0800 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:43:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Randy of course they dont mention that they have co-opted the god Eros's day.

I think all good Pagans should go and meet these Catholics and offer to have sex with them to celebrate the day of Eros.

]]> Randy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014965 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014965 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:53:51 -0800 Comment by ahura At least they aren't burning down Halmark or threatening to cut off candy maker's heads.

]]> ahura http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014967 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014967 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:57:16 -0800 Comment by David Schmader yet...

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014968 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:59:54 -0800 Comment by Levislade OK, I assume they're not actually stealing all these goods and throwing them away, so doesn't that mean they're, um, BUYING them? And thus supporting the evil Secular Valentine's Day Industry? Or am I missing something?

Or maybe this is actually a joke. If so, it's a very good one. Bravo!

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014985 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:37:41 -0800 Comment by lostboy I especially love their irony-free objection that a chocolate cupid wrapper has a pagan symbol on it. =p

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c014996 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:49:50 -0800 Comment by Sigourney Beaver I'll be spending Valentine's Day making love, not war.

]]> Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015014 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:15:28 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage I'll be spending it smashing stuff—come to the Stranger's Valentine's Day Bash!

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015015 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015015 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:18:35 -0800 Comment by pliny Wikipedia says:

"In 1969, as part of a larger effort to pare down the number of saint days of purely legendary origin, the Church removed St. Valentine's Day as an official holiday from its calendar."

So these Christians can blow it out their ass--even the holiday-happy Catholic Church formally abandoned this holiday decades ago.

My old Latin teacher told us that Valentine's Day came from the Lupercalia, one of the better Roman festivals, which involved preparing for spring by chasing the wolves out of Rome and then whipping all the young girls to promote fertility. I'm thinking the whipping was more of an in-fun whipping than a brutal, bloody whipping, but you never know with the Romans.

Anyway, I was thinking maybe Josh could bring back the old ways and get together a party for chasing the dogs out of Seattle this V-Day.

]]> pliny http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015021 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:25:00 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Why do they spell it "largetrashcan"? Sounds like a 90s alternaband.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015030 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:48:38 -0800 Comment by longball I saw them at lunch, they are all too real. couldn't they be protesting something actually offensive like, i don't know, the DEATH PENALTY!!!! nopers, they are picketing a box of chocolates. Way to save the world, 1 creamy delicious camel chew and nut cluster at a time.

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015038 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:08:14 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Shit, I thought it was bogus—we sent a photog down just in case, but I haven't heard from him yet. Perhaps the Catholic Youths tore him limb from limb?

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015040 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:13:12 -0800 Comment by Timothy Hulsey That’s why we’re calling on See’s Chocolates ... to stop leaving the SAINT out!

Can't the Catholic Youths just get some priest to transubstantiate the saint into the chocolate and be done with it? (Take, eat ....)

]]> Timothy Hulsey http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015065 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015065 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:59:28 -0800 Comment by Tracy Leaving SAINT in Saint Patrick's Day has truly made a difference in how holy I treat the holiday....swilling beer and kissing women wearing green until I'm threatened with arrest.

]]> Tracy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/because_christm#c015540 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:43:49 -0800