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Muslim Parent Upset Over School Flyer Promoting Church's Easter Egg Hunt

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theheat4/05/2014 7:58:35 pm PDT

Not sure I’m liking this in a public school. To me, it smacks of the church saying “we got access to the kids first, and now we can entice them to come to ours by them following this friendly little trail of breadcrumbs to our door.” Nope, don’t like it one bit. Smells like recruiting.

Mind you, it’s not the egg hunt and typical Easter time activities that bother me - they don’t. They don’t bother me any more than Christmas trees or Santa Claus, simply because the religious symbolism (Christ-mas) to those “things” has been so hijacked by commercialism, religion is not required to participate.

I would think it would have been more on the up-and-up to approach other local churches/mosques and extend an invitation through them. As well, they could have posted flyers, posters, or grabbed some radio spots. Even if recruitment wasn’t at the center of this, by approaching local religious institutions with open invites rather than zero in on the school, there would be no room for misunderstandings regarding their intentions.