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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 12:43 AM Oct 2016

Holy Carp! So-called Christian group wanted to make the Pulse massacre into a haunted house!?!

And do this in an elementary school?!

Advertised as a "Christian interactive experience," the event is produced by Tyrone Tappler Productions. On Aug. 31, the company asked on Facebook for volunteers who'd depict the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting: "Club Pulse, Dancers, Victims … CAGED PEOPLE/SCREAMERS, Extras needed trying to escape a cage! … SOUNDS INTERESTING? COME OUT THIS SATURDAY!!!"

Among other scenarios reportedly depicted in the haunted house were a botched abortion and the 2015 Charleston church shooting. According to the ticket sales page, The Room "is a real life haunted house. Guests will experience IN YOUR FACE scenes of dark reality. … You will walk in 10 Rooms and encounter individuals who will make choices. The choice is life or death; sin or salvation; heaven or hell. The scenes will be action-packed, real and jaw dropping."

Nat said they were particularly bothered that promoters were talking about the events "in terms of 'moral choices'—whose moral choices are we talking about? Is it immoral to just want to go out and be with your friends and dance? And what really bothered me was that this was in a public school supported by our tax dollars."

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/CPS-School-wont-host-haunted-house-depicting-Pulse-shooting/56969.html
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Holy Carp! So-called Christian group wanted to make the Pulse massacre into a haunted house!?! (Original Post) icymist Oct 2016 OP
And depicting "the 2015 Charleston church shooting"… regnaD kciN Oct 2016 #1
I simply can't believe these people! icymist Oct 2016 #2
Death. Cult. Sentath Oct 2016 #7
That's disgusting. SusanCalvin Oct 2016 #3
True shenmue Oct 2016 #5
Low life cristians, Buzz505 Oct 2016 #6
Ghouls feeding upon the dead. n/t HenryJ Nov 2016 #8

SusanCalvin

(6,592 posts)
3. That's disgusting.
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 07:08 AM
Oct 2016

Of course, I think that much of the time about such groups, but this is particularly disgusting.

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