From: "Robibnikoff" 


"johac"  wrote in message
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> "Robibnikoff"  wrote:
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>> "johac"  wrote in message
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>> > In article ,
>> > cary{at}afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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>> >> In article 
"J Young"
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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.
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>> >> 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?)
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>> > And for that Winter Solstice celebration, we'll definitely have to do
>> > something about those pagan trees.
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>> 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? ;)
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Robyn
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