Each year around Easter, a handful of Hungarians take part in a tradition dating back to 2nd century AD. Donning traditional garb, boys and girls take to the streets for what they call the “watering of the girls.”
It’s a fertility ritual from a pre-Christian time in Hungarian tribes, where boys throw buckets of water of young girls running past them.
If that title is of interest to you, then you may want to check out this article.
Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity
WACO, Tex. — Battles for acceptance by gay and lesbian students have erupted in the places that expect it the least: the scores of Bible colleges and evangelical Christian universities that, in their founding beliefs, see homosexuality as a sin.
Decades after the gay rights movement swept the country’s secular schools, more gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to come out of the closet, demanding a right to proclaim their identities and form campus clubs, and rejecting suggestions to seek help in suppressing homosexual desires.
Many of the newly assertive students grew up as Christians and developed a sense of their sexual identities only after starting college, and after years of inner torment. They spring from a new generation of evangelical youths that, over all, holds far less harsh views of homosexuality than its elders.
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If you like celebrity cameos in videos, then this is the one for you.
The video starts off with Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogen as a younger version of the group, and then the following:
Steve Buscemi, Alicia Silverstone, Laura Dern,, Will Arnett, Orlando Bloom, Steve Buscemi, David Cross, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Will Ferrell, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Steenburgen, Rainn Wilson, Stanley Tucci, Shannyn Sossamon, Maya Rudolph, and a surprising Susan Sarandon.
Oh, and a DeLorean makes an appearance.