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| subject: | Re: Rhode Island School Bans Easter Bunny |
From: "Robibnikoff"
"johac" wrote in message
news:jhachmann-E80323.16092826032007{at}news.giganews.com...
> In article ,
> "Robibnikoff" wrote:
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>> "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_bun
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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? ;)
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
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