The photo above, showing three illuminated cross along Lower Manhattan Skyline in New York city symbolizing the three crosses on Calvary, contrasts sharply with Item #3 of the previous post noting that the White House viewed Easter egg decorations with “religious symbols” inappropriate for the day’s festivities.
I ask, without irony or innuendo: “Is this progress?”
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Pointer: Sachin Jose
Ethics Alarms 
You should read this.
https://uk.legal.narkive.com/G7biEUVU/for-chung-ejercito-this-is-the-happiest-easter#post1
Joe ain’t backing down:
Millions? Wow. I think my sister said that in North Carolina, there were something like 3 or 13 transgender women in high school athletics. A relatively small subset, true, but …. millions?
Gov. Whitmer is all in, too:
https://x.com/GovWhitmer/status/1774451242980311272?s=20
According to the President and CEO of the American Egg Board,
“The American Egg Board has been a supporter of the White House Easter Egg Roll for over 45 years and the guideline language referenced in recent news reports has consistently applied to the board since its founding, across administrations.”
Similarly, the White House emphasized that the guidelines banning religious themes from the eggs have been in place for decades and aren’t the result of a new Biden administration policy.
I have learned to do my research before posting on this blog.
Thanks, Jan. That information would have been useful for the post: the rightish sources didn’t include it, and the rest didn’t report on the announcement at all. Did your research reveal how long and why the policy had been in place? Because it still seems like a weird policy for Easter. The rational thing would have been to reverse it, don’t you think?
There was no rationale in the article I found. I see no reason for an event that is inclusive of all children to suddenly become laden with Christian symbols. For all their faults, aren’t all religions at their best about becoming a new person? A better person? Admittedly, they have all failed at times in history, but I believe that is the goal.
??? Easter is Easter. It has no reason for existing other than to mark a momentous event in the Christian religion. This is in the same category as banning traditional Christmas Carols in school Christmas assemblies. That holiday doesn’t exist to celebrate flying reindeer and animated snowmen.
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I just watched the Deputy Secretary of State for Management & Resources state that they have not and would never give a grant to promote atheism in a foreign country. He stated that he had reviewed the grant and it said no such thing. The grant title was “Promoting and Defending Religious Freedom Inclusive of Athiests, Humanists, Nonpracticing, and Nonaffiliated Individuals”. Its expected outcomes listed it expected to strengthen or create networks of advocates for communities of atheists, etc. I also remember an Inspector General who was given a complaint about President Trump. The complaint form wouldn’t allow such a complaint, so he altered the form to allow it. He also backdated the form so that it wouldn’t be obvious that changes had been made just to allow a complaint about Trump. So, a statement by the Egg Board CEO, someone no one seems to have known about, stating that this has always been the case, when no one remembers it being so, doesn’t seem like ‘proof’ to me. Where is a program from a previous egg roll that stated this? Where is an article from the Trump administration, or the Obama administration, or the Bush Administration that states this same thing?
Absent more, it does look to me that an organization dependent on political largess is just trying to ear brownie poinst by coming to the rescue of the White House for a self-inflicted wound.
By the way, the White House children’s Easter festivities were instituted by “Lemonade Lucy” Hayes, our 18th First Lady (but in the term of our 19th President.)
Oh, Biden just said that he did NOT announce the celebration of the Trans Day of Visibility and anyone who says he did is ‘thoroughly uninformed’. I think this is my point. I don’t believe anything they say. Which do you believe, that he did or didn’t announce this? My bet is that most diehard Democrats believe both.
Eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility and birth. For all intents and purposes they are Pagan symbols. Thus, they are by nature a religious image in and of themselves; a Pagan religion. As a society, we have used both to serve as a metaphor for the rebirth of Jesus Christ at Easter. Such symbols, in my opinion, distract from the religious messages. Easter has become another commercial event to sell cheap toys and candy to children.
I would suggest that because the administration has named March 31 transgender day we stop using eggs and bunnies to symbolize life but instead use them to showcase the destruction of eggs and loss of fertility in the trans community.
I am sure the President of the American Egg Board will be thrilled to have its signature product inextricably linked to transgenderism.
I have ceased using the word “Easter”, since its roots are pagan as well. In the 4th century the Edict of Milan made Christianity legal and ultimately the official religion of the Roman Empire. When that happened, many pagan festivals became Christian holidays. The Feast of Ishtar became Easter. This explains why fertility symbols like rabbits and eggs are connected with Easter. Ishtar was the Babylonian goddess of fertility. I need or want none of those clouding my celebration.
For me, it’s “Resurrection Sunday.”
And I’m with Michael R on this, I believe nothing from this Administration, nothing from any liberal (and some conservative) news sources, and certainly not the CEO of the Egg Board. I would want to see additional corroborating evidence. That’s a sad thing to say, but this is the country in which I now live. It’s nearly impossible to believe or trust anyone.
I believe and trust Jan and Greg. I just would like to know “what’s going on here?”
I was thinking of the religious equivalent to “What would they do if Trump did this?” for deciding to celebrate the ‘Trans Day of Awareness’ for the first time on Easter. Here are some examples..
*Declaring the first Day of Ramadan as the beginning of “National Pork Products Week” and encouraging people to ‘pig out’ on pork products all week long, including sending suggested menus to school cafeterias
*Hosting representatives of Hamas at the White House on Yom Kippur
I’m sure the media would say these were ‘just coincidences’.
Yep, this pretty much nails it.
Climate change and Pro-Palestine activists interrupted Easter Mass services at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Saturday evening.
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