According to Todd Starnes (Fox News) the school board of Madison City Schools, Madison, Alabama has spared the life of the Easter bunny.
Lydia Davenport, principal of Heritage Elementary School, had banned the erstwhile Easter creature, claiming people relate the Easter bunny to religion. Pardon my cannibalism, but if you can find the Easter bunny in the Bible, I'll eat it.
The principal ruled, in the name of religious diversity, that no activity centered around any religious holiday would be allowed. Some diversity. The last time I checked, "diversity" meant a multitude of views discussed openly in the public arena of ideas. Depriving students of any and all holiday activities is not religious diversity. It's not diversity of any kind. It is hypocrisy. It is totalitarianism. It is prison.
Fortunately, school superintendent Dee Fowler had better sense: "These traditions [Christmas and Easter] are part of our rich heritage, and I do not see them as infringing on one's religious rights."
Score one for real diversity - the ability to hear a different point of view without being permanently scarred. Score one also for the school board that refused to have its traditional heritage being railroaded out of school.
Score one for the Easter bunny too. Ironically, many evangelicals have been quietly objecting to the Easter bunny for years because it is probably of pagan origin. When I spoke to a fellowship recently, I advised, "Pretend you're offended. Maybe Christianity will be rid of one more pagan holdover."
Now, thanks to the Madison City School board, the rabbit lives.
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