Liberals at it again

zhilan said:

I think kids should learn that Easter is about Christ's rising from the dead for the salvation of humanity and not about a giant bunny that brings them toys.

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Sounds right to me. Though I still dread the day Victoria asks about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, and why they bring candy and toys to all the other children but not to her. I still have a few years to come up with an answer.

I'm not a liberal by any stretch of the word, but I don't see the problem in the school's actions. I wouldn't want them celebrating Ramadan or Yom Kippur with the kids, so why should they celebrate Easter? Teaching religion is my job, not theirs. Of course, I'd rather the rabbit just not have come instead of confusing everything with a renaming.

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PetertheRock said:

First it was Christmas now the Easter Bunny is "too Christian" How long before these politically correct liberals get sent to some island like Alcatraz where they can leave the rest of the 92% of the people who celebrate traditional Holidays in peace?

http://news.aol.com/topnews/article...t/20070407201309990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

School Renames Easter Bunny 'Peter Rabbit'

ABC News
(April 7) -- A Rhode Island public school has decided the Easter bunny is too Christian and renamed him Peter Rabbit, and a state legislator is so hopping mad he has introduced an "Easter Bunny Act" to save the bunny's good name.


"Like many Rhode Islanders I'm quite frustrated … by people trying to change traditions that we've held in this country for 150 years, like the Easter bunny," Rhode Island State Rep. Richard Singleton told "Good Morning America Weekend Edition."

The Easter bunny was scheduled to make an appearance at a craft fair on Saturday at Tiverton Middle School in Tiverton, R.I.

But the district's schools Superintendent William Rearick told event organizers to change the bunny's name to Peter Rabbit in "an attempt to be conscious of other people's backgrounds and traditions."

Singleton struck back this week by proposing a bill, nicknamed the "Easter Bunny Act," to stop all local municipalities from changing the name of popular religious and secular symbols like the Easter bunny.

"The underlying theme here is serious," he said. "I don't think a superintendent of schools should have the authority to change something we've held so deeply for 150 years."

Not everyone in Rhode Island, however, believes the Easter bunny is worth fighting for.

"As a Christian symbol, I would say [the Easter bunny] is not one of those that I would go to the barricades to defend," Rev. Bernard Healy, the Catholic Diocese of Providence, R.I., said in a statement.

Singleton, however, said the perceived religious symbolism versus its actual religious significance is why it shouldn't be banned.

"The Easter bunny is not a religious symbol," he said. "Why it's being banned doesn't make sense."

The American Civil Liberties Union has also spoken out the issue.

"Public schools should not be promoting Easter celebrations, and to the extent that the school districts try to avoid that problem they are to be commended," Steve Brown, the executive director of the ACLU Rhode Island affiliate, said in a statement.

Singleton, however, dismissed the ACLU's comments.

"I don't pay a lot of attention to what the ACLU says quite frankly," he said. This is "political correctness gone wild. 'It's crazy."

Singleton said the bill is meant to protect all traditional and religious symbols for example, if someone wanted to change "the name of the menorah to the candelabra."

The politician isn't positive that Peter Rabbit would have been the right replacement anyway.

"By the way, Peter Rabbit stole cabbages and that's not a good role model for our kids," he joked.

What do you think of the Easter bunny ban?
I oppose it 92%
I support it 8%
Total Votes: 66,647


Do you celebrate Easter?

Yes 87%
No 13%
Total Votes: 65,860

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Sandlapper277 said:

Sounds right to me. Though I still dread the day Victoria asks about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, and why they bring candy and toys to all the other children but not to her. I still have a few years to come up with an answer.
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kamikat said:

Try moving the gift-giving holiday to Dec 6, the feastday of St Nicholas. We are teaching our children that we give gifts in remembrance of the generosity of St Nicholas. He was a bishop of the pre-schism Church, who was a great fighter for the Church. While our kids know that St Nicholas doesn't bring the presents, they know that we exchange presents on St Nicholas day.

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MikeK said:

I hate it when people quote an entire post - but some posts are just SOOOO good....

I'm debating about the whole Santa and Easter Bunny thing in our house. I would love to never hear of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus or the Purple Passover Penguin again, but it is hard to do when seemingly everyone else is for them. I suppose I'll take the easy way out and tollerate them in my home and be just like everyone else, but I'll be loathing it silently the whole time.

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Sandlapper277 said:

I've had it easy so far. She's only a year and a half.

The way I looked at it was, if I spend her first seven or eight years telling her about things like Santa, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy, how much would that destroy my credibility when I told her about Jesus, hearing all our prayers, rising from the dead, the Holy Spirit living inside of us? I don't want her getting confused between Santa "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good.", and the real Jesus that really does all those things. It could easily confuse a youngin. It's not wrong to pretend about Santa, I just couldn't make myself comfortable with doing it.

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