[/align][/align]City officials in St. Paul, Minnesota removed a toy Easter Bunny from the offices of the city council after the city's human rights director said non-Christians might be offended by the display, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Also removed were Easter eggs and a sign saying "Happy Easter."
"I sent an e-mail that Easter is viewed as a Christian holiday and advised that it be taken down," said Tyrone Terrill, the city's human rights director. "It wasn't a big deal."
The PiPress reports that this is not the first time city hall has been embroiled in controversy over religious displays. Red poinsettias were apparently banned from the building several years ago after someone decided they were "too connected to Christianity." Mean Streets
A museum in Hartford, Conn. was forced to cancel a show featuring the gun collection of Samuel Colt because the show didn't offer "a broader context in which to talk about contemporary gun violence," according to the Hartford Courant.
The show of Colt's gun collection, which had been three years in the planning, was to be exhibited at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum museum beginning in May next year. The collection was bequeathed to the museum in 1905.
RE: Here we go again, first Christmas banned, now easter bunny!
Is it ok? sure? Just seemed rather silly question for you to ask. Not your usual questions? I mean, I thought everyone knew the history of bunnys and eggs with Easter.
Kinda like you asking if "Dec. 25 when we celebrate Christmas". Maybe I am overestimating you.[]
RE: Here we go again, first Christmas banned, now easter bunny!
How silly.
If anyone is offended by the Easter Bunny, I'd think it would be Christians who are offended that a holiday celebrating Christ's resurrection is turned into something that is represented by bunnies and eggs!
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RE: Here we go again, first Christmas banned, now easter bunny!
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How silly.
If anyone is offended by the Easter Bunny, I'd think it would be Christians who are offended that a holiday celebrating Christ's resurrection is turned into something that is represented by bunnies and eggs!
I am with you Ben. As a devout Christian, I don't like seeing Easter eggs and bunnys and crap. Its ok for kids outside the Church, but would rather see the real meaning being pushed more.
Here we go again, first Christmas banned, now easter bunny!
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