Ravenwood - 03/27/06 05:15 PM
Heh.
"A small Easter display was removed from the City Hall lobby on Wednesday out of concern that it would offend non-Christians," the Associated Press reports from St. Paul, Minn.:
The display--a cloth Easter bunny, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter"--was put up by a City Council secretary. They were not purchased with city money.
Well, this certainly makes sense. After all, everyone knows the Easter Bunny is a Christian symbol, which has no place in the public square in St. Paul, a city named after--uh, we've forgotten. Does anyone know where St. Paul got its name.Tyrone Terrill, the city's human rights director, asked that the decorations be removed.
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Are you coming back now?
Posted by: SayUncle at March 27, 2006 5:08 PMWelcome back?
Posted by: NateG at March 27, 2006 5:15 PMNo. I'm not back. Not exactly, any way.
Posted by: Ravenwood at March 27, 2006 6:15 PMSt. Paul was originally called "Pig's Eye", after one of the first settlers (who lived in a cave above what later became the sewage plant, Pig's Eye Island). St. Paul started as a town because it was one of the first places where wagons could be drawn up the river bluff easily. By contrast, Minneapolis (just upstream) got its start because of the waterfalls providing power for the mills.
The name was changed as the town grew, and people realized it wasn't a terribly attractive name.
Personally, I think they should have kept the original, it's got a better ring to it.
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