From: johac 

In article ,
 "Robibnikoff"  wrote:

> "johac"  wrote in message
> news:jhachmann-E80323.16092826032007{at}news.giganews.com...
> > In article ,
> > "Robibnikoff"  wrote:
> >
> >> "johac" 
wrote in message
> >> news:jhachmann-86AFAC.16224223032007{at}news.giganews.com...
> >> > In article ,
> >> > cary{at}afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> In article
 "J Young"
> >> >>  writes:
> >> >> >
http://catholicleague.org/07press_releases/quarter_1/070323_ri_bans_b
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> >> >> > 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.
> >> >>
> >> >> (how about that other pagan fertility symbol: eggs?)
> >> >
> >> > And for that Winter Solstice celebration, we'll
definitely have to do
> >> > something about those pagan trees.
> >>
> >> And that pagan holy and ivy - and mistletoe - and the colors red and
> >> green
> >> and, and......................... ;)
> >
> > I remember a T shirt I saw once. It said "Give me that Old Time
> > Religion" and beneath it was a picture of Stonehenge. :-)
>
> Ah, that would be wonderful to wear around the holiday season, no? ;)

Yes. I have to remember where I saw it. :-)
--
John #1782

"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to
be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."

 - Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.

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