The Godless Commies Have Opened a New Front
by digby
You know how they repackage all the candy from holiday to holiday? Red and green Hershey’s Kisses at Christmas turn magically into Pink and Red Hershey’s Kisses for Valentine’s Day then Blue and Green for Easter and so-on? Well, it looks like Bill Donohue and Sean Hannity are doing the same thing with their bogus atheist assaults on religion. Here’s the latest:
What evidence is there for the “War on Easter?” The Catholic League put out a release yesterday from Donohue making its best case. Donohue writes, “Adults in Munson Township, Ohio were ordered to call their Easter Egg Hunt the Egg Hunt.” But here’s what you see if you go to the Munson Township website:
As it turns out, Munson (pop. 6,621) decided for the first time ever to host a community event featuring an Easter Egg Hunt and the Easter Bunny. At an initial planning meeting, Irene McMullen – one of the town’s trustees and a former Sunday School teacher — suggested not including the word Easter in the name of the event. This was leaked to the press and created a backlash including “threats” and “profanity-laden phone calls.” At a April 13 meeting, McMullen announced that the final decision was to include Easter in the name of the event.
Donohue also cites “Third graders at a Seattle school [who] were told they must call Easter Eggs ‘Spring Spheres.’” The basis of this claim is a 16-year-old private school student named Jessica who called into a right-wing radio show. She claims the edict was communicated to her by an unnamed public school 3rd-grade teacher when she offered to give her student plastic eggs filled with candy.
There’s more “evidence” at the link. By the way, nobody could find any evidence for “Jessica’s” claim. I think somebody might have been pulling somebody’s right leg …
Seriously, when is somebody going to put Donohue out to pasture? He’s just pathetic at this point.