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3/26/2006
7:01:52 am EST
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What's The Next Offense Down The Bunny Path?
Author: Joe Soucheray Source: Pioneer Press (MN)
Title: WHAT'S THE NEXT OFFENSE DOWN THE BUNNY PATH?
The weird thing about the Easter Bunny getting kicked out of City Hall is the what's next factor. Everybody loves to play the what's next game. But nobody saw this one coming, not even if you were playing the what's next game.
For example, 20 years ago, when a city might have kicked a manger scene off public property, people said, "What's next, banning decorated Christmas trees?'' And then, sure enough, a few years went by and decorated Christmas trees were banned in places like government buildings. People said, "What's next, the word 'Christmas'?''
Well, a few years went by and sure enough, the word "Christmas," in public settings, was replaced by the word "holiday." In the most famous case in the newspaper business, we splashed "Happy Holidays!" across the front page of the Pioneer Press on Dec. 25, 1999. Imagine that.
But the game, the what's next factor, was thrown into hyperspeed with the expulsion of the Easter Bunny.
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| Pathetic | Mar 27th. at 2:01:42 pm EST
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william (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - Email Me
When will people understand that they do not have a right to not be offended. Banning a Easter bunny is pure stupidity. This is all done in the name of tolerance and is contradictory to the idea of free expression. Any one who has that much of a problem with someone displaying symbols of their faith is either a bigot or incredibly stupid themselves.
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| A Much To Do About Nothing | Mar 27th. at 6:34:44 am EST
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Drascus (Stoughton, Massachusetts) - Email Me
I think It is kind of comical how much a big deal people can make about nothing. I as a pagan am not scrambling to have ostara signs and yule trees put up in pubilc places. I am not protesting the christmass tree saying it should be a yule tree. In fact I wouldn't want that at all. I don't think the state should indorse any religion. But I don't care if those government employees want to say merry christmass and wear a cross people can do whatever they want.
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| This Is A Non Issue Event. As Always | Mar 26th. at 2:04:07 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Frankly that part about the turkey sandwich would be overkill. My guess is the bird flu might end that argument before long. The fact that it IS government land is really what the argument is about. The ones raising hell about all the symbols wouldn't- if theirs were the only ones represented. The hue and cry over the fact that "separation of church and state" isn't directly stated in the Constitution, is fueling this non-issue debate by those seeking a state religion-- and a return of their status quo on a permanent basis.
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| Criminy | Mar 26th. at 1:06:04 pm EST
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
Someone needs to tell this jackass that the only time there's a problem with Easter in the public sphere is when Christians confuse the supposed resurrection of J.C. with great fertility symbols like bunny rabbits, eggs, and heavy doses of chocolate. It's fun for kids too, but like Halloween, is being hijacked by adults, who need to party and celebrate the seasons more than anyone. In the end, Ostara is as disconnected from Christianity as Yule from Christmas and Samhain from Halloween. We've never stopped celebrating the passages, it's just our culture still has a dark ages hangover. But the word is getting out, praise the gods!
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| ??? | Mar 26th. at 9:02:20 am EST
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Sy (Atlanta, Georgia) - Email Me
What exactly did this reporter mean by "if pagan beliefs are not oxymoronic?"
It seems to me that Christians are offended because they aren't getting special treatment anymore. I don't mind religious displays, the Easter Bunny, Christmas Trees with stars on top, they are equally Pagan as they are Christian. Even the Ten Commandments in courthouse doesn't bother me. What I would like to see is the endorsement of all religions. How about the Jewish Mitzvot? The Wiccan Rede? Can we put those up in the Courthouse? Can I put a pentacle on top of the Christmas Tree in City Hall? Can the Easter Bunny carry eggs with pentacles drawn on them as well as crosses to celebrate the amazing similarities in our religions? To help show that the USA doesn't endorse one religion, but all of them? After all, that's what this country was founded on, the freedom to worship as we choose.
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