Jack Kemp (not the politician)
 
Now it seems that the left is attacking Easter displays, not content to just attack Christmas displays. They don't want to hear - or see - a peep out of Christians.
 
From USA Today:http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/03/across_the_usa__11.html
 
From the regular USA TODAY page with news from every state, today's Minnesota blurb is finding marshmallow protests delicious but debatable.
"Marshmallow Peeps are multiplying outside City Hall as a protest after a small Easter display in the lobby was removed out of concern it could offend non-Christians. A few employees placed the spongy chick- and rabbit-shaped treats around a statue of American Indians. A secretary put up the original Easter display."

The St. Paul Pioneer Press has official comments, and a local KARE has video. What did the original display show? "A cloth bunny, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words 'Happy Easter,'" the Associated Press reports.

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I would contend that those angry at any Christian display are mostly those who think the Easter bunny is going to turn to them and -- in their fantasies -- tell them they shouldn't smoke pot or should visit their mother or their ancestors' graves. Remember when Jimmy Carter said he was scared by a "killer rabbit?"

Years ago, someone wrote a reader book review at Amazon contending that a current Christmas display would probably, he thought, make his Jewish college roommate uncomfortable because he had complained about feeling left out by Christmas displays. Perhaps he couldn't find his way to the campus Jewish Center or know where he could buy an Old Testament. Anyway, I replied directly to the reviewer that it was strange that someone who probably espoused multiculturalism and learning about things like Kwanza, Ramadan and the Chinese New Year now was writing that learning about another American's cultural heritage was oppressive. I also said that, as a Jew, I didn't need someone to imagine for me how uncomfortable I might feel when learning there are Christians in America (shocking - who knew?) and about ethic Chinese, Hispanics, Blacks or whoever. "I don't need a leftist narcissist idiot to imagine" would have been a better phrase than "I don't need someone to imagine," but Amazon might not have posted that. If one met this alleged Jewish roommate who complained about Christian displays oppressing him, it would be interesting to ask him if he knew 1) the Hebrew name for the Book of Genesis (Behrehsheet in Israeli/Sehphardic Hebrew and Berehshis in Askenazi Hebrew, meaning "In the Beginning").

The liberals are always talking about how we should learn from countries overseas, particularly those with an international flavor. Well, have you ever been to Jerusalem? You can see some churches as you travel to the Western Wall. And you can walk through the streets of the Old City and see the ancient streets and building signs (like street signs, but located on building walls about ten feet high) marking the Via Dolorosa and the Stations of the Cross. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ1g99DgbgI&feature=related I understand they even have a place in the Old City called the Church of the Holy Sepulchre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3OLxn-Q9a0 And in the YMCA hotel and pool in the New City of Jerusalem, when I spent a night there in the 1970s, they had an 80 percent Jewish membership. I suspect it still does. They call it the "Yimka" in Hebrew.

What the left means by "multiculturalism" is no culturalism, forgetting one's history and embracing the State as your God and your church. Or whatever the State's official opinion is this week with the accompanying requirement to forget what the State's opinion was last week. 

Happy Hanukkah and a (belated) Happy Easter.

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