1 posted on
03/11/2007 10:05:27 AM PDT by
SmithL
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To: SmithL
"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?''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.
2 posted on
03/11/2007 10:08:40 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
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To: SmithL
"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?''
Well ... Brad ... I'd say your guys were the ones who came unglued when they got your panties in a wad over the word "Easter".
3 posted on
03/11/2007 10:09:36 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: SmithL
Yes, we must get that NASTY word "Easter" away from our kids!!! We cannot have them associating with Christianity, now can we?
4 posted on
03/11/2007 10:09:40 AM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: SmithL
"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?" 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.
5 posted on
03/11/2007 10:12:27 AM PDT by
Condor 63
To: SmithL
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.''
To: SmithL
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.
7 posted on
03/11/2007 10:13:43 AM PDT by
weegee
(Carbon credits are nothing but the Global Warming movement's way of selling indugences.)
To: SmithL
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.
8 posted on
03/11/2007 10:15:15 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SmithL
No doubt they would have rushed to rename it just as quickly had it been the Miraj Egg Hunt... </holding breath>
10 posted on
03/11/2007 10:17:49 AM PDT by
CountryBumpkin
(Don't get dropped into the liberal thunk tank. Use the brain God gave you.)
To: SmithL
rovanpera@walnut-creek.org
11 posted on
03/11/2007 10:20:57 AM PDT by
gaijin
To: SmithL
Some of these fools don't understand that religious tradition, national holidays, patriotism, and our cultural history is what holds us together.
12 posted on
03/11/2007 10:21:45 AM PDT by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: SmithL
I never miss '60 Minutes' Says it all, really.
To: SmithL
Let's see, "Easter Bunny" is "Paas Haas" in Dutch, right?
Obviously this crazy old rabbit who lays eggs is a major player in Judaism.
18 posted on
03/11/2007 10:29:27 AM PDT by
muawiyah
To: SmithL
Ok..I get the uproar over changing the name..it bothers me too..
But, I do have to wonder why it too FIVE YEARS for their to be an uproar.
I think the whole thing is kind of silly..
But I DO understand why it bothers people....
20 posted on
03/11/2007 10:30:05 AM PDT by
M0sby
(((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
To: SmithL
"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?'' What a liar. With all the things in the world to worry about, why did the city bother renaming it if they didn't have an anti-Christian agenda?
BTW, in saying that, our family celebrates "the Day of Resurrection" and doesn't have anything to do with Ishtar's egg or spring fertility symbols.
23 posted on
03/11/2007 10:32:40 AM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser: Debtor's fascism for Kaleefornia, one charade at a time.)
To: SmithL
Isn't Easter derived from a pagan word anyway?
27 posted on
03/11/2007 10:44:00 AM PDT by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: SmithL
This guy can't be that dumb. He's got to be a liar. He didn't expect any reaction? Where has he been for the past twenty years while politicians fought over Christmas trees?
28 posted on
03/11/2007 10:44:19 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: SmithL
I love the Easter Bunny. Keep him.
To: SmithL
The country was founded to get away from this sort of religious persecution. It has no other earthly reason to exist. If Americans started putting up with this kind of thing, then we might as well just become France.
47 posted on
03/11/2007 12:11:40 PM PDT by
JasonC
To: SmithL
Up in Marin, San Rafael has an Alice in Wonderland Spring Festival and not only suggests that you bring your own eggs, but that you hide them yourself, too. Speaking of panties in a wad, I'm betting some lawyers could get all knotted up if these people haven't paid a licensing fee to use the name.
I also have to wonder when the Neopagans are going to start complaining that their Ishtar Bunny is being exploited?
Me? I just like boiled eggs, and can appreciate a good, complex, dye job.
50 posted on
03/11/2007 12:21:00 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: SmithL
"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?" This is how it's slipping away from us, Brad. Morons like you think that it's OK to chip away at the small things so we won't notice the gradual slide into Socialism.
People in America are finally waking up. Hopefully, the reaction to this will cause other cities to think twice before they try to do something as equally stupid as this.
52 posted on
03/11/2007 12:24:39 PM PDT by
NRA2BFree
(Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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