A SMALL EASTER DISPLAY REMOVED

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The following was taken from PreachingNow (3-28-06


I'm guessing there'll be nothing in Tyrone Terrill's Easter basket this year.
A March 24 Associated Press story reports that a small Easter display -- a cloth Easter bunny, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter" -- was removed from the St. Paul, Minn., City Hall lobby last week out of concern that it would offend non-Christians. The display was put up by a City Council secretary with no city money involved.
Tyrone Terrill, the city's human rights director, apparently decided the bunny and eggs might offend non-Christians, and asked that the decorations be removed. Terrill said no citizen had complained to him.
Council Member Dave Thune called it a shame, saying, "This has just gone too far. We can't celebrate spring with bunnies and fake grass?"
No word so far as to whether St. Paul's non-Christians are feeling affirmed by the bunny-banning at City Hall.