From: "Robibnikoff" 


"johac"  wrote in message
news:jhachmann-86AFAC.16224223032007{at}news.giganews.com...
> In article ,
> cary{at}afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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>> In article  "J Young"
>>  writes:
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http://catholicleague.org/07press_releases/quarter_1/070323_ri_bans_bunny.
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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.
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>> (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.

And that pagan holy and ivy - and mistletoe - and the colors red and green
and, and......................... ;)
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
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