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echo: r_catholic
to: Cary Kittrell
from: Attila
date: 2007-03-24 07:25:34
subject: Re: Rhode Island School Bans Easter Bunny

From: Attila 

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:09:45 +0000 (UTC), cary{at}afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary
Kittrell) in alt.abortion with message-id
 wrote:

>In article  "J Young"
 writes:
>>
>>
>> William Rearick, Schools Superintendent of the Tiverton Public Schools in
>> Rhode Island, has banned the Easter Bunny from appearing at a fundraising
>> event tomorrow at the Tiverton Middle School. He has also banned the word
>> "Easter" from all school events. He told the Providence
Journal that during
>> the last year and a half, he has become "more aware of folks
who don't have
>> a Christian background." Taking the place of the Easter Bunny
will be Peter
>> Rabbit; children will be able to get their picture taken with him.
>
>So, the superintendent bans a pagan fertility symbol from the
>Christian rites of spring.  There must be a special word for
>irony this deep.
>

A rite that was (like most cult rites) was hijacked from the competition in
an effort to eliminate said competition.

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