Hopping Mad: Easter Becomes the Latest Flash Point in American Politics

It often seems like there is nothing left today that is not a battleground over our political and social differences. We can now add Easter. The Biden White House triggered a firestorm by picking Good Friday to announce that Easter Sunday will now be the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” At the same time, families objected to regulations on Easter egg designs, barring children from including any religious imagery or references on this religious holiday.  There are even objections to the use of eggs at the annual White House egg roll.

Despite the criticism from various politicians, including Speaker Mike Johnson, Jean-Pierre went on X Saturday to reaffirm that Sunday is to be designated as the “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Transgender Visibility Day actually began 15 years ago and many have noted that the overlap with Easter Sunday this year is a coincidence.

President Joe Biden has made no comment on the controversy and issued his Easter proclamation , which can be read in full here.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates did respond on Saturday:

“As a Christian who celebrates Easter with Family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American. Sadly, it’s unsurprising politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric. President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.”

In the meantime, the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll is being called a celebration of  “National Guard Families.” The 2024 “Call for Youth Art” flyer states that “Children should depict on an egg template (see Art Submission form) a snapshot of their life – a favorite activity, scenery in your state, your military family, a day-in-your life, etc.” The same warning has appeared in prior years. However, under its restrictions list, the flyer noted, “The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”

One can understand the desire to bar “Let’s Go Brandon” eggs. Moreover, the Easter egg event has long been treated as open to people of all faiths and background. It has been treated more as a celebration of spring. However, some families have objected that the holiday does have a religious origin and that the bar on any religious references like a cross or other symbols is an affront.

As a legal matter, there is no bar on religious displays in such White House events, which have included such symbols in celebrations of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim holidays. Nevertheless, this limitation has existed in prior administrations.

On the positive side, the egg roll will involve eggs. PETA has asked the First Lady to substitute potatoes for the eggs. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk objected that:

“Children love animals and would be sad to learn that the eggs used for fun and games at the White House come from tormented hens whose lives are spent in cages that afford them less space than a standard sheet of typing paper. Easter should be a time of renewal and joy for all sentient beings—and that means hens, too.”

By having children decorate and roll spuds, Newkirk suggested, the First Lady could remove these little “cholesterol bombs” from the diet of children. Besides, she added, “potatoes are cheaper and healthier than eggs and leave birds in peace.”

The head of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) added his own warning to people not to eat whole eggs and to cut back on the sweets to protect their health.

However, the Easter Bunny appears to have been vindicated this week in a scientific study that found that eating 12 eggs a week did not increase one’s cholesterol. Indeed, it found possible heart benefits to egg consumption.

That proposal was clearly rejected for now.

146 thoughts on “Hopping Mad: Easter Becomes the Latest Flash Point in American Politics”

  1. “Easter Sunday will now be the “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

    ++×

    No real surprise. We already knew they were stupid. We already knew they were evil.

    I do wonder who is in charge and suspected nobody was, and this supports that thought.

    I now imagine the Biden White House [I use the term loosely] to be overrun with competing factions or ideological gangs who gain the upper hand from time to time and do something particularly stupid or particularly evil before the others can interfere. ‘Government’ by chaos that is spreading everywhere. The once famous Three Stooges likely would do a better job and would be far more likeable.

    1. As I said, Biden is in the hands of others.

      https://twitter.com/_StephanieMyers/status/1774834917379330429

      From the Myers X post:

      Biden took questions from the press during the White House Easter Egg Roll and this is how he responded to the backlash after issuing a proclamation on transgender day of visibility on Easter:

      Q: “Speaker Johnson called it outrageous that Easter Sunday was transgender day of visibility, what do you say to Speaker Johnson?”
      Biden: “He’s thoroughly uninformed.”

      Q: “Uninformed how?”
      Biden: “I didn’t do that.”

      1. Travel back in time, Cass Sunstein is married to Samantha Powers. Hardcore liberal that wanted to animals rights. These are the fukstiks that are working with Obama to covertly run and ruin our Nation.

    1. Hey, they were this guy’s bibles, so he had every right to burn them. So long as he didn’t endanger the surrounding property or people, that is.

  2. Every human will die and face a reckoning. Many of our elder “statesmen” are at the jumping off place. It is breathtaking to witness their disdain and contempt towards us mere mortals who believe in God and have the audacity to believe in a right and wrong.

  3. Biden’s marionette handlers are being rejected by hardworking Americans. The policies of Democrats are hurting children. Gov Ron DeSantis policies in Florida are saving children. Government schools in South Florida are closing due to decrease in enrollment, and this from governments schools swimming in money with palacial campuses. Catholic schools in South Florida are thriving with meager campuses. Thanks to school vouchers, parents and their children in Florida now have choices in their education

    Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have historically voted Democrat because of Jews. Hillary beat Trump in Dade by over 29%. Jews have left Miami or turned against Democrats. Latinos are rejecting Democrats as well. Trans folk are an astonishingly small percentage of people, esp since many of them change their minds or detransition.

    The voucher effect? South Florida Catholic schools see more kids, even waiting lists

    Helped by an influx of new Floridians, and boosted by the state’s newly expanded voucher system, Catholic schools in South Florida are seeing steady growth and even adding new classrooms. That’s in stark contrast to what’s going on in the public schools, particularly in Broward County, which faces tough decisions on closing entire schools after decades of continuous decline in enrollment. How big is the difference? Catholic schools in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties this year reached the highest number of students in more than a decade. Over the same period, public schools in Miami-Dade and Broward have lost tens of thousands of students.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article286344395.html

  4. A “Transgender Day of Visibility” … as if they’re invisible the other 364 days a year (eye roll). No, every day of the year this new transgender cult is pushed on normal Americans and shoved down our throats. A “Transgender Day of Visibility” … what a sick joke. But then again, the phrase ‘sick joke’ pretty much sums up the entire Joe Biden administration in just two words.

  5. After the Constitution and Bill of Rights are erradicated and the Communist Manifesto is adopted, the final act of the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) will be to destroy Christianity and all religion—the “opiate of the people”—and favor perversion and decadence.  

    But only if you submit to complacency; only if you allow it. 
    _______________________________________________________________

    “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    – Declaration of Independence, 1776

  6. Completely tone-deaf president and administration. Their hate towards Christians is abominable.

  7. The guest of the White House who showed off his surgically enhanced breasts certainly was a visible transgendered person.

  8. TRANSGENDER VISIBILITY is the adam’s apple one discerns on that suspiciously tall blond whose hips lack a certain roundness.

    Still we award an ‘A’ for effort in consideration of their perfectly coordinated ensemble of stylish feminine clothes.

  9. Dan Bongino keeps asking his listeners/viewers “is it bad enough yet” WeIl with this absolute mockery of the Christian faith worldwide I say ENOUGH.

  10. For a day of visibility for the trans, can we please have the remaining 364 days be one of celebrating the accomplishments of people rather than one of exhibiting ones fantasies.

  11. Even Stupider Than TG Day!

    Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Targeting Chemtrails

    SB 2691/HB 2063, sponsored by Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, passed in the Senate on Monday. The bill has yet to advance in the House.

    The bill claims it is “documented the federal government or other entities acting on the federal government’s behalf or at the federal government’s request may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere, and those activities may occur within the State of Tennessee,” according to the bill.

    The legislation would ban the practice in Tennessee.

    “The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

    https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
    …………………………………………

    This source is ‘not’ The Onion, nor a supermarket tabloid. This is Nashville’s long-established, daily newspaper.

    Tenessee’s Republican-controlled state senate is concerned enough about ‘chemtrails’ that they seek to formally ban them within state boundaries.

    For the record, scientists do not even recognize ‘chemtrails’. The visual phenomenon known by that term is simply air and water condensation created by aircraft engines streaking through the sky.

    But ‘chemtrails’ have long been an urban legend promoted by conspiracy mongers. The idea seems to be that certain evil-doers are spraying chemicals in the sky to drug unsuspecting communities. ‘And the Federal government is well-aware and totally complicit!’

    With this bill, Tennessee Republicans are essentially mainstreaming urban legends. Which is only the logical next step for a party that half-recognizes the Q’anon conspiracy.

    1. The concept of chem trails includes a wide array of issues many of which are not sprung from far fetched conspiracy theories. Cloud seeding, a well known practice, is a type of chem trail. Bill Gates has been a proponent of different spraying concepts that would fit chem trails exclusion. So, the GOP probably was not quite as dumb as you are giving them credit for.

    2. What’s stupid, is commenting as Anonymous…COWARD. Why are you hiding??

    3. Anonymous said: “chemtrails”

      I do not see that term occur in your quoted summary of the legislation to which you allude. Regardless of what you suppose “chemtrails” to be in the lexicon of conspiracy theorists, there have been multiple proposals from climate activists masquerading as scientists to disperse substances in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and theoretically reduce surface temperatures. Were you not aware of those proposals, or were you just feigning stark ignorance? No doubt there would be a contentious debate about whether the State of Tennesee has the authority to ban events high in the atmosphere over its territory, but I suspect they are trying to call attention to the devastating consequences that might result from such a rash experiment, and with good reason.

    4. For the record, scientists do not even recognize ‘chemtrails’. The visual phenomenon known by that term is simply air and water condensation created by aircraft engines streaking through the sky.

      No, those are contrails. Chemtrails don’t exist.

  12. Hey Biden Rasmussen Poll this week said 70% of Americans believe “He is Risen”. Election year and you think we will forget.

    Go to HELL!

  13. Meanwhile thousands more illegal Bidenistas head north to penetrate our borders seeking freebies on the tax payers. Indiana sending troops to assist Texas to stop the incursion. Whether Trump or RFK Jr deportation must begin day one of office.

  14. Biden has now secured his VIP seating in HELL! Front row right next to Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Jane Fonda.

    Joe Biden you will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

  15. Reasonable minds can disagree on many subjects. There is this thing called the road of reasonableness, and it can be wide. But it does have boundaries. It is possible to take actions and express statements that are off the road of reasonableness.

    This action by the “Joe Biden” administration is off the road of reasonableness, as explained by Jeffery Cohen below. Intentionally desecrating Christianity’s mist important holiday is fundamentally unreasonable. It can have no other purpose than to give a big middle finger to all Americans of faith.

  16. Everything the left touches turns to crap!!!!
    Biden has the opposite of the Midas touch!!! 😬

  17. Anarchists have a LONG HISTORY OF TRYING TO SELF Destroy!
    Democrats are Fascists Anarchists! There leaders should be jailed by the 1000’s!

    If you VOTE DEMOCRAT you HATE AMERICA! Trans people are INSANE! I can TEST THE DNA and tell

  18. My name is Jeffrey Cohen. I am a Jew. I am an attorney with a Bronx NY office. My three boys went to yeshivas. In my forty plus years of practice, I have represented more African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, homosexuals than people have fingers and toes. Why? They are all the highest creations of the Living God. I am a child of the Bronx, a former cliff dweller of apt buildings. When I read of the desecration of the Good Friday holiday by America’s new Mad King George, President Biden, I frankly wanted to cry. For this was just a gratuitous insult made to hurt good and decent citizens of this land. This laying down of the gauntlet by Mad King Biden and the Democratic Party making sport of belief in the Creator, His Law and His natural order should, in my opinion, be met with a unified boycotting of businesses and individuals who display agreement with this selfish, egotistical, narcissistic, existentialist, Nietzschean blasphemy. Further, I believe that this insult that is not only meant for Christianity, but to all religious faiths, crossed a red line cracking a fissure in our national identity which should immediately result in the members of each and every state legislature having to answer the following question: “Do you look with favor or disfavor for this State to continue to be part of the union of the United States of America or to separate from it and join with other like minded States to form a more perfect union under God.” My answer, “The Lord, He is God.” 1 Kings 18:39.

    1. “For this was just a gratuitous insult made to hurt good and decent citizens of this land. This laying down of the gauntlet by Mad King Biden and the Democratic Party making sport of belief in the Creator, His Law and His natural order should, in my opinion, be met with a unified boycotting of businesses and individuals who display agreement with this selfish, egotistical, narcissistic, existentialist, Nietzschean blasphemy.”

      From your mouth to God’s ears!

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