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Home Front: Culture Wars
St. Paul, Minn. Officials Ban Easter Bunny
2006-03-23
The Easter Bunny has been sent packing at St. Paul City Hall. A toy rabbit, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter" were removed from the lobby of the City Council offices, because of concerns they might offend non-Christians.
Stuffed rabits being one of the holiest christian symbols
A council secretary had put up the decorations. They were not bought with city money.

St. Paul's human rights director, Tyrone Terrill, asked that the decorations be removed, saying they could be offensive to non-Christians.
And heaven knows we wouldn't want to offend
But City Council member Dave Thune says removing the decorations went too far, and he wonders why they can't celebrate spring with "bunnies and fake grass."
Guess we should just rename it the "Spring Festival"
Posted by:Steve

#11  You'd think at least the local pagans would get offended by the removal of the Easter Bunny...
Posted by: Phil   2006-03-23 17:37  

#10  Hey Tyrone!!!!! Did ya ever notice the name of your city???? You ignorant slut!
Posted by: AlanC   2006-03-23 17:33  

#9  By golly, vhat vill Ole and Lena tink of next.
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2006-03-23 17:17  

#8  think Tyrone would have a problem with Kwanza?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-23 17:05  

#7  It's an embarrassment, being from the frozen tundra state and all.

But the idiotic state senate leader, a donk, is entertaining. The fool is on tape telling folks not to get all excited about passing DOMA because he spoke to all the justices and there are already enought laws on the books to safeguard marriage (1F+1M). Only problem is the chief justice polled his justices and none of them ever spoke to this fool about DOMA.

The Reps are all over this.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-03-23 16:50  

#6  Well, I never knew we had religious easter bunnies will wonders never cease.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-03-23 16:13  

#5  Oh man, I almost forgot! Have to get that holiday tree up.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-03-23 15:54  

#4  St. Paul's human rights director, Tyrone Terrill, asked that the decorations be removed, saying they could be offensive to non-Christians.

Here's an idea. Tell Tyrone, "No". Like they used to do a long, long time ago.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-03-23 15:39  

#3  Ramadan Rat is halal.
Posted by: St. Paul City Council   2006-03-23 15:37  

#2  What farce. This absurd PC shit will never end - until PCism, in all its social engineering forms, is totally eradicated for the mental illness cowardice it is.
Posted by: Snuper Thramp5041   2006-03-23 15:17  

#1  Let's be honest. It wasn't the bunny, plastic grass, and eggs that might give offense. It was the word "Easter".

As far as I can tell, our elites have decided that celebrating the dominant faith in our society causes offense and criticizing minority faiths causes offense, so both have to be banned. What left, of course, is celebrating the minority faiths and criticizing the dominant one.

Nothing wrong with doing any of the above, so long as they're all allowed. But the present situation is hardly one that is fair, honest, or moral.

Thus "Happy Holidays" alongside "Happy Kwanza"; it's "offensive" to mention one of the two holiest days of 3/4ths of the population, but you gotta push, push, push a thirty-year-old "holiday" created by a Marxist, racist, violent crackpot.

I'll bet good money that the St. Paul City Hall puts up signs marking Earth Day.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-23 15:08  

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