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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In Australia, late the century before last, a patent medicine seller was charged with selling rabbit droppings as Vegetable Compound Pills. His defence - Were they not of vegetable origin, compounded, in the form of a pill? Not guilty. True story.
I wasn’t fully clear..The Rabbit has no connection to the Feast of Easter..But I love the bunny, have the Hallmark bunnies all over the place on Easter..I like Santa Claus too.
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