Gay families plan to attend White House egg roll

Three months before the annual Easter egg roll at the White House, the usually festive event is already taking on a divisive edge because of plans by gay- and lesbian-led families to turn out en masse in hopes of raising their public profile.

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I had always thought that the origin of the Easter Egg was because the chocolate eggs are in the shape and colour of rabbit droppings, and as we all know, Jesus was crucified, died and reincarnated as the Easter Bunny (in every sense of that word)

I'm reading with interest Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit's A History of Thailand. In Chapter 2 they mention that King Mongkut (Rama IV) and his circle, in modernising Thai Buddhism, also did critiques of Christianity and concluded it was 'a foolish religion'