Posted on 03/11/2007 10:05:22 AM PDT by SmithL
When the great Easter Bunny hullabaloo hit Walnut Creek, it took nearly everyone by surprise.
Surely, city officials thought, this couldn't last. It would all blow over once people realized that they hadn't banned Easter, just renamed their annual kids' event a "Spring Egg Hunt'' rather than an "Easter Egg Hunt.''
"Honestly,'' Walnut Creek spokesman Brad Rovanpera said this week, "with all the things in the world to worry about, people are coming unglued over this?''
They are. And the reaction speaks less to the controversy about religion in the community -- it's just a rabbit, after all -- than the media's inclination to play into the simmering anger and resentment among Americans who are convinced their rights and privileges are being taken away.
In this case, you could call it a "hare-trigger'' reaction.
Walnut Creek resident Michael Runzler wrote a letter to the editor complaining about "banning the Easter Bunny,'' and when it ran last week in the Contra Costa Times, the response was immediate.
"I heard from two Fox TV news shows in New York, KGO (news radio), Channel 7 (the ABC affiliate) and The Chronicle,'' Rovanpera says. "I did most of the interviews, but I turned down Fox in New York. They wanted me to go to a studio in Oakland on Sunday, and I never miss '60 Minutes.' ''
And who would have thought that would be just the start of it? This week, Runzler appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" national news show, clips from which were then picked up by "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central.
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Right back atcha, Brad. With all the things in the world to worry about, why have you all wasted your time renaming cultural events to fit the PC mold? People become unglued when you mess with tradition for no apparent good reason. Putz.
Yes, we must get that NASTY word "Easter" away from our kids!!! We cannot have them associating with Christianity, now can we?
The problem is that people have a good idea of what is really behind it and where it will lead us - and that issue is important Brad.
And odds are good (puts on the Hillary voice) you know what I'm talking about.
And the man of religion reacts:
"I'm not going to defend the Easter Bunny or eggs,'' says the Rev. Kevin Murphy, whose St. Matthew Lutheran Church is one of the largest in Walnut Creek and is just a few blocks from the annual egg hunt. "In my congregation, Easter egg hunts don't have a blessed thing to do with Easter, which is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
"And by the way,'' Murphy adds, "rabbits don't lay eggs.''
The PC police never blinked an eye that one of our days (Thursday) is named after the god Thor.
And those who get their panties in a wad over "In God We Trust" appearing on currency (as has been the case LONG before the 1950s, which is when many atheists say it began), you could find the god Mercury on those coins.
So the only God that the Left has raised a stink over has repeatedly been the Christian God.
the reaction speaks less to the controversy about religion in the community -- it's just a rabbit, after all
Herein lies the problem, it's not about RABBITS!
Well, we knew this already but the war on our traditions and values continues apace.
Some of these fools don't understand that religious tradition, national holidays, patriotism, and our cultural history is what holds us together.
Says it all, really.
Hmmm....The Rev. Kevin Murphy appears to have failed the part of seminary about youth ministry and getting kids to understand the whole Easter thing in a step-by-step, young-minds approach.
I waited and waited for the atheists to get upset about the womyn's goddess Susan B. Anthony being on a coin but they kept mum about it. Probably because the coin was such a bust - oops, bad pun.
It's time for the revolution!
Obviously this crazy old rabbit who lays eggs is a major player in Judaism.
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