In a web-exclusive Newsweek commentary Marc Gellman writes about the Gardens Mall in Palm Beach County apparently succeeding in finding a way to rally 100 percent of Americans against them:
They have now hunted down and killed, like a mangy dog … the Easter bunny! This follows the bah humbug performance during Christmas time in which America’s marketing geniuses demanded that their employees say “Season's Greetings” rather than the incendiary and divisive “Merry Christmas.” Henceforth and forever more, shoppers at The Gardens mall will be greeted by the Garden Bunny and his pagan entourage who will no longer conduct Easter egg hunts in the mall, but rather spiritually generic egg hunts.
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The noble cause of the separation of church and state is trivialized, not upheld or ennobled by this insane and obsessive oryctolagusphopia (fear of bunnies). The Easter Bunny has as much religious significance as a Hanukah bush. It is a pagan fertility symbol tied by the slenderest of chocolate threads to the new life symbolized by the Resurrection. The steps leading from the Easter Bunny to the establishment of a national religion (Bunnyism?) are long and twisting indeed.
Happy Easter!
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