Axe Christmas they say, now on to Easter...

[Rowdy]

I know some of us have had our differences about the holidays and I don't want to beat a dead horse here but thought this was interesting nonetheless...

Easter Exiled
Sunday, March 26, 2006
By Scott Norvell

   
City officials in St. Paul, Minnesota removed a toy Easter Bunny from the offices of the city council after the city's human rights director said non-Christians might be offended by the display, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Also removed were Easter eggs and a sign saying "Happy Easter."

"I sent an e-mail that Easter is viewed as a Christian holiday and advised that it be taken down," said Tyrone Terrill, the city's human rights director. "It wasn't a big deal."

The PiPress reports that this is not the first time city hall has been embroiled in controversy over religious displays. Red poinsettias were apparently banned from the building several years ago after someone decided they were "too connected to Christianity."