Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

First They Came For Santa, And I Said Nothing

My apologies if this is too dated, but I was preparing to blog on it last week ...

In St. Paul, Minnesota, even the secular depictions of religious holidays are apparently offensive:

A small Easter display was removed from the City Hall lobby on Wednesday out of concern that it would offend non-Christians.

The display - a cloth Easter bunny, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter" - was put up by a City Council secretary. They were not purchased with city money.

Tyrone Terrill, the city's human rights director, asked that the decorations be removed. Terrill said no citizen had complained to him.

Council Member Dave Thune called it a shame.

"This has just gone too far," he said. "We can't celebrate spring with bunnies and fake grass?"

The backlash for this is building in America. For those of us who value religious tolerance and freedom, let's not be so surprised one day when one of two things happen: religion is banned by an out-of-control government or it is mandated by an equally out-of-control theocracy. Either one is possible, as history has proved.

Perhaps James Taranto put it best in his Best of the Web blog on OpinionJournal.com:

"Well, this certainly makes sense. After all, everyone knows the Easter Bunny is a Christian symbol, which has no place in the public square in St. Paul, a city named after--uh, we've forgotten. Does anyone know where St. Paul got its name?"

I'm guessing it wasn't from the Easter Bunny -- who now is no longer welcome in the city anyway.

1 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 8:06 PM
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The thing that gets me is that the display was done by one of the secretaries who probaly just wanted to bright up the workplace and didn't demand any monies from state for it.

Whatever happened to such nice,homey touches folks used to make their surroundings pleasant and friendly to the whole community? Why do some people feel threatened by bunnies and plastic grass? Is Anya behind this?

After all,this was her song:

Bunnies aren't just cute like everyone supposes/they've got those hoppy legs/and twitchy little noses

And what's with all the carrots/why do they need such good eyesight anyway?/Bunnies,Bunnies/it might be BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!/or maybe midgets

By lady t, at 12:23 PM