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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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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

The public schools are moronic. I see no problem with an Easter bunny. I had Easter baskets and an Easter egg hunt after we came back from church services. It didn’t harm me or the holiday. I tended more to make my children’s Easter baskets filled with a small chocolate bunny , clothes & small toys. One of my very favorite memories is when the doorbell rang on Easter and I got to answer it and found all our Easter baskets sitting on the porch. Since I was the baby of the family I always got there 1st. I can remember peeking around for that rabbit too. I did the same for my children and tomorrow my 7 yr old will hear the doorbell, run for the door and find her basket. I just hope her brother is able to hide fast enough as she almost caught him last year.


41 posted on 04/07/2007 9:36:49 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: MarkL

Ah, my bad. I got second-hand info. I don’t have cable, so the re-runs I see are several seasons old!


42 posted on 04/07/2007 9:38:24 PM PDT by Disturbin (Welcome to society -- morons with keys)
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To: SlowBoat407
That's exactly what They want you to believe. Ah, but Snowball knows the truth!

Another Hare Club for Men member?

Mark

43 posted on 04/07/2007 9:41:35 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I rename whomever made this decision ... “IDIOT.”

Bunny-phobic


44 posted on 04/07/2007 9:58:12 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Happy Easter everyone!!!

Shouldn't that be Merry Easter? It's snowing in Dallas.

45 posted on 04/07/2007 10:01:42 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I could live with “Irish Get Drunk Day”.


46 posted on 04/07/2007 10:03:47 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: TigersEye

bunny ping


47 posted on 04/07/2007 10:25:39 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I never get tired of all those easter bunny stories in the bible!


48 posted on 04/07/2007 10:43:43 PM PDT by upsdriver (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
"hopping mad "
49 posted on 04/07/2007 10:45:27 PM PDT by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Tonight the Wal-Mart cashier wished me a Happy Easter—it was very nice.


50 posted on 04/07/2007 10:59:42 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: ndt

Exaggeration maybe, but look at what we have lost. No influence in public school. They can’t even talk about the bible, but they can make up anything they want that degrades the religious.Sex education is giving way who know what. No prayer in school. Roe vs. Wade. Winter Holiday. You can be fired for defending you faith. The media is constantly feeding subliminal messages that Christianity is the religion of hate. Its going to get a lot worse.


51 posted on 04/07/2007 11:31:33 PM PDT by oyez
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This lady perhaps would not approve of the use of that particular name for such a silly reason. Beatrix Potter
52 posted on 04/08/2007 3:21:02 AM PDT by Mila
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Society is also becoming alot dumber and clueless as well. The Easter Bunny, for the record, has it’s roots in Paganism and not Christianity. There’s implications of a Fertility Rite with the “bunny” that has nothing to do whatsoever with the Resurrection of Christ Jesus. So, if out ACLU/Leftist/Liberal brainwashed, undereducated school kids who decided on this had only known, they could have, instead embraced the Easter Bunny as a perfectly good way to further reject and blaspheme Christianity just like their previously named masters intend them to do.


53 posted on 04/08/2007 3:23:49 AM PDT by pallmallman
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To: AnAmericanMother

Hmmmm... I had thought that the word “Easter” derived from the Babylonian “Ishtar”. Both seem related to some ancient rite of spring; rabbits and eggs both symbolizing fertility and new life.

Anyway, JESUS is LORD and HE is RISEN!

:^)


54 posted on 04/08/2007 4:10:34 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: Eccl 10:2

Right, and Christ is our Passover Lamb. :) Thank God!


55 posted on 04/08/2007 4:22:39 AM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (Let's go to the Farside....)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Since everyone seems scared to death of lawyers these days, someone should just inform the school that there may be copyright issues with the use of images/characters owned by the heirs of Beatrix Potter.

They may be better off using the generic creation of the Easter Bunny. The Bible isn’t copyrighted as are other faith based documents like the ones from the Mormons or Scientologists.


56 posted on 04/08/2007 4:23:02 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
It’s just the first sneaky step towards eventually changing the Easter bunnies name to Mohammad bunnie.
57 posted on 04/08/2007 4:33:37 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Nancy: a fool by birth-a menace by choice .)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Happy Easter.

Easter Bunny!

Peter Rabbit indeed - Such crap.


58 posted on 04/08/2007 4:34:58 AM PDT by roaddog727 (BullS##t does not get bridges built)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The Easter bunny not only deposits eggs around the lawns, but random piles of smart pills as well. The petty little administrators of this school need to take a few.
59 posted on 04/08/2007 4:40:29 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Nancy: a fool by birth-a menace by choice .)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; patton

i wonder if they have ever actually read
beatrix potter’s story of “peter rabbit”?


60 posted on 04/08/2007 6:30:11 AM PDT by leda (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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