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School Renames Easter Bunny 'Peter Rabbit'
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3018390&page=1 ^
| April 7, 2007
Posted on 04/07/2007 8:35:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
April 7, 2007 A Rhode Island public school has decided the Easter bunny is too Christian and renamed him Peter Rabbit, and a state legislator is so hopping mad he has introduced an "Easter Bunny Act" to save the bunny's good name.
"Like many Rhode Islanders I'm quite frustrated
by people trying to change traditions that we've held in this country for 150 years, like the Easter bunny," Rhode Island State Rep. Richard Singleton told "Good Morning America Weekend Edition."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: easter; easterbunny; peterrabbit
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Slowly but surely our society is becoming increasingly vulgar.
Happy Easter everyone!!!
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:36:47 PM PDT
by
RKB-AFG
(Conservative Pride)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Good grief, how many are sick of this? Can you imagine this happening to any other religion in this country?
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:39:31 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
To: RKB-AFG
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:40:27 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
How about we get rid of that rabbit in the first place?
This whole thing is just rubbish. There's no rabbit in connection with the Resurrection.
But I realize that the United States is not Christian and this rubbish will continue on.
Btw..Happy Resurrection Day!
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:42:08 PM PDT
by
GulfWar1Vet
(Let's go to the Farside....)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The Easter bunny is about as Christian as these “educators” apparently are authorities about Christianity and history.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:42:23 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(How many millions have to break a law before it's inconvenient to enforce?)
To: ladyinred
A local radio talk show host Howie Carr recently had a “Political Correctness Gone Too Far” topic. One woman called to say St. Patrick’s Day was renamed at her school due to the religious connection. It was renamed. Wanna guess to what? Get ready......................................it was renamed “Green Day.” Aw, how nice!!! Maybe it was to honor crappy liberal pop-rock bands.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Are you sure is name is not Peter? I always assumes “Easter Bunny” was more of an official title.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:45:05 PM PDT
by
ndt
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Bunnies have nothing to do with the real meaning of Easter.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Christians will soon assume the same status of Jews of Nazi Germany.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:46:57 PM PDT
by
oyez
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Jiminy Cricket! Of all the things school officials could be doing with their time (and our tax dollars) they go after THE EASTER BUNNY?!?
The world’s gone mad.
To: oyez
"Christians will soon assume the same status of Jews of Nazi Germany."
Just Wow! Does the word "hyperbole" mean anything to you? Heres a couple of hints to start you off. Jews did not make up 90% of Nazi Germany and they had bigger things to worry about that the renaming of children's storybook characters.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:50:33 PM PDT
by
ndt
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Sounds like a great public school. < /barf>
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:52:39 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Now selling carbon offsets. Get some today!)
To: All
A Blessed Easter to all.
Billy Bunny
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:52:54 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..Doing real on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
How ignorant does someone have to be to think that the Easter Bunny is "too Christian"?
To: celtic gal; MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Well, I think I can make a somewhat tenuous case that the Easter Bunny has SOME connection with the meaning of Easter . . . .
Our friend The Venerable Bede (author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English, circa 731) tells us that the English name "Easter" came from an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess named Eostre.
Eostre's representative animal or totem was a rabbit.
So there's at least SOME connection!
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:55:53 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: GulfWar1Vet
IDIOCY!
A rabbit and eggs has nothing to do with Easter. Nothing.
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:56:15 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(AL GORE STALKED ME ON 2/25/2007!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
“Hippitus, Hoppitus, Anu Dominae” (sp?)
Mark
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:57:11 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: celtic gal
You obviously didn’t see the latest episode of South Park, where it’s all explained...
Mark
(Newest member of the “Hare Club for Men”)
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posted on
04/07/2007 8:58:58 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
If they have the authority to rename stuff, so do I!
YAY!! And I will rename Rhode Island “Pinky von Schnoodle Island” in kind! But why stop there? Let the renaming of all things commence!
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