Biden White House Bans Religious Imagery In Easter Art Contest
“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes”
In yet another casual insult to the vast majority of Americans, the Biden White House has banned all religious imagery and themes in its annual Easter art contest. [Note added: April 23, 2024 – this appears to have been the same policy of prior administrations]
Apparently, they are still calling Easter, Easter, but this move is just outrageous. Obviously, they are saying “religious,” but they mean Christian.
'White House Bans Religious Easter Eggs'
'The Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 Celebrating National Guard Families art contest.
The competition, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll,… pic.twitter.com/sKtPt1M4oK— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) March 30, 2024
The Daily Caller reports: [Note added April 23, 2024 – This Daily Caller article has been RETRACTED]
The Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art contest.
The competition, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, explicitly stipulated that egg designs not feature any “religious symbols” on the Christian holiday.
“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes,” a flyer with instructions from the White House stated.
. . . . Other restrictions include depictions promoting “bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual based on race, gender, religion, nationality disability, sexual orientation or age,” the White House stated. Child participants were also told not to depict “illegal drugs or firearms” or to include “material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.”
Scenes from the popular Democrat kiddie porn library are probably fine, though.
As you can imagine, people had thoughts.
Joe Biden declares that Easter Sunday is transgender visibility day while he bans Christian symbols from the White House Easter egg roll.
Disgraceful. Easter will forever be the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. pic.twitter.com/yDTWgR9FhU
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) March 30, 2024
We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign @BidenHQ and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ. pic.twitter.com/xA3krhhlaM
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) March 30, 2024
Isnt that what the whole point of Easter is???? It’s gotta do with the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his death by crucifixion. This is so stupid🙄
— EGON SPENGLER'S TWINKIE™ (@candycadetgal) March 30, 2024
If you take Jesus out of Easter it becomes Sunday. Easter is NOT about rabbits that lay eggs.
— Matthew L (@Matthew59052204) March 30, 2024
A different religion reigns supreme at the White House pic.twitter.com/bSRsgzWubp
— Still Boneless (@still_boneless) March 30, 2024
Um… but… it’s Resurrection Sunday… literally a celebration of the Risen Christ, you know, the One the Christian faith worships in their… religion?
— Lisa Alexander (@LisaLAlexander_) March 30, 2024
The White House is under fire after declaring Easter Sunday a Transgender holiday. It is a direct attack on the holiest day in the Christian faith. The Biden Administration also completely ignored Good Friday. And they banned children from decorating White House Easter Eggs with…
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) March 30, 2024
What other “religious symbols” would a child use to decorate EASTER eggs?!
They are saying “religious” because they know they can’t say “Christian” this close to an election.
When Joe Biden says the 2024 about the SOUL of our Nation, maybe we should listen. https://t.co/ylv1AhCb3t
— John James (@JohnJamesMI) March 30, 2024
During Holy Week, they banned religious themed Easter eggs at the White House while replacing Easter Sunday with rainbow mental illness day. A Catholic who votes for Joe Biden is a CINO (Catholic in Name Only).
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 30, 2024
Apparently, every March 31st is trans day (or whatever), but the White House should have sit this one out given that it falls on Easter Sunday.
The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Banning sacred truth and tradition—while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day”—is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note. pic.twitter.com/ZCExyVkAVS
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 30, 2024
Last year's Easter …
This year Biden has banned any religious themes on Easter eggs
This year he also made Easter Trans visibility day
What will this years Easter at the White House look like ..— The Ms Francesca (@TheMsFrancesca) March 30, 2024
oh right, cause they restored honor and decency in the White House…😂 pic.twitter.com/3SneU6wR0Z
— Meme’nOnLibs (@MemeNonLibs) March 30, 2024
Don’t be fooled.
The White House is very much in favor of religious symbols. pic.twitter.com/4jXyED9zFx
— Pray for 𝕽𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖓 ☧ ✝︎ (@PrayingForReign) March 30, 2024
Without the religious symbols, it’s just Joe Biden and a furry telling children they have candy.
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) March 30, 2024
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But I thought Joe was a good Catholic.
Joe seems to have a lot in common with some priests.
Not sure what to say. I have no comment besides being speechless
Isn’t this ban a clear 1st Amendment issue?
No, why would it be? Unless you mean that the first amendment actually requires it, which I don’t believe it does. The egg roll is a government event, sort of, but not entirely.
If it is a government event, then accepting Christian-themed eggs but not Moslem- Jewish-, or Satanic-themed ones would violate the first amendment, so it’s simpler to just say “no religion” and then nobody has to be rejected, and nothing awkward has to be admitted. (As a limited forum it doesn’t have to be content-neutral, just viewpoint-neutral.)
But it can be seen as a private event that the president is hosting in his private capacity, in which case he can accept Christian themes while rejecting those incompatible with it.
Good. Can’t wait for the next Muslim holiday, when we can tell them how to celebrate with transgenders!!!
I’m sure there is a Transgender/ LBGTQ day that falls on a Muslim holiday since LBGTQ holidays are numerous…and cover the whole year!! https://twitter.com/MarcScottEmery/status/1666463339579572231
And if it’s one that the White House has been marking since Biden came into office then I have no doubt that it will do so even when it coincides with a Moslem holiday.
But we don’t get to tell Moslems how to celebrate their holidays, just as nobody is telling Christians how to celebrate Easter. There is no Moslem equivalent of the White House egg roll (that fact itself shows that Christian holidays still get a privileged position, even in this administration), so there can’t be equivalent rules about art submitted for it, but if there were one then the rules would be something like the ones for the egg roll, which have not changed in many years.
We should not have to defend Easter from a Catholic President.
You don’t have to defend it. It’s not under attack. This entire article is premised on two falsehoods: That the rules for the egg roll have changed, and that the transsexual-whatever day was deliberately chosen to clash with easter.
But, what if no Musselman egg is possible?
I literally have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
Well, at least he’s not selling $60 Bibles like Trump is as a carnival barker, which Bibles are already free on the Internet. So I guess he has that going for him.
People who buy stuff Trump is selling know exactly what they are doing. Trump is doing a great job of turning your and other’s lemons & TDS into profits, and more importantly votes… 🙂
But at least Trump… 😂😂😂
No, he is just selling out America to perverts and the mentally challenged….
He is selling something worse than Trump.
The topic is the Biden administration, sackless.
Try harder. Do better.
They’re not even pretending any more. Face it – they hate us and all the principles on which Western civ has been built.
Really, they hate us. Just like the Muzzies hate us.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/30/dont-ever-think-they-dont-hate-you-white-house-designates-easter-sunday-as-transgender-day-of-visibility-n3785646
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/good_catholic_biden_declares_open_war_on_easter_and_the_bible.html
Just like that biden transforms christian religious holiday into secular trans groomer pedo event??
Of course he does.
No, he has not transformed anything into anything. The religious holiday of Easter remains exactly as it is. In the USA, in which the constitution explicitly says no religion has any more status than any other, Easter is not a public holiday. There is a secular egg roll at the white house; Biden has not changed its rules at all. And there is a completely unrelated day that he has been proclaiming every March 31; it’s not his fault, or this day’s promoters’ that Easter came along and happens this year to coincide with it.
There are, however, 21st century blasphemy laws. They’re called ‘hate’ crimes.
This is not Canada or the UK. There are no blasphemy laws in this country.
“Hate crime” is a category of crime. It means a crime that is motivated by hatred. If something is not a crime in the first place then by definition it can’t be a hate crime. In particular, expressing hatred is not a crime, and therefore can’t be a hate crime.
In exactly the same way “electric vehicle” is a category of vehicle, so something that is not a vehicle at all, e.g. a leaf blower or a stove, can’t be an electric vehicle.
Oh, goody. Mr. Literal has opined.
What you wrote was not true. Literally, figuratively, or in any other way. Expressing hatred, for anyone, is not a crime and can’t be. Therefore there is nothing even analogous to blasphemy laws. You are free to blaspheme Gaia, racial equality, GLBQWERTY, or even the USA flag, with complete impunity.
“There are no blasphemy laws in this country.”
Demonstrably false.
Despite several attempts to repeal it, at least one within the past 20 years.
That’s not a law, because it violates the 14th amendment. The moment the 14th amendment was ratified that law became invalid and no longer part of MA law.
Like progressives care about the law….
Er, yes, they do. They have no choice. They can’t enforce an invalid law; the courts won’t let them.
You’ve never heard of anyone trying to enforce this ex-law, have you? That’s because nobody has, because everyone has understood for nearly a century that it’s no longer a law.
Like Joe Biden listened to the Supreme court about student loans???
You could say exactly the same thing about Masschusetts gun laws. Yet, I invite you to violate one.
He has listened to the Supreme Court exactly and to the letter, and is in full compliance with the decision in Nebraska v Biden. Anyone who claims that he is defying the ruling is a liar.
The second amendment is in the process of being rehabilitated into a first class right. For decades the supreme court deliberately neglected it, refusing to grant cert on any case relying on it; that did long-term damage down the line, so that even now when the Court seems to have rediscovered it, the First Circuit hasn’t yet got the message. Repairing the damage will take a lot of time and dedication. Those MA laws, along with the NY, NJ, CA, IL, and other offending laws, will be struck down, eventually.
The first amendment, though, doesn’t suffer from that problem. It hasn’t spent decades as a second-class right. And blasphemy laws have been universally recognized as invalid ever since the first amendment was recognized as being incorporated into the 14th amendment, about a century ago. So your comparison is wrong.
And yet it is enrolled in the General Laws of Massachusetts.” So now I get to play the Milhouse card, where this time YOU maintain what the law “should be,” but I insist to you what the law IS.
“The first amendment, though, doesn’t suffer from that problem. It hasn’t spent decades as a second-class right.”
More mummery.
I’m on my phone at the moment, and not my laptop where I have the citation, but you (along with most people) may be surprised to know that SCOTUS didn’t even hear their first First Amendment case until the 20th century. Meanwhile, they were hearing Second Amendment cases well before the Civil War.
Lots of old ex-laws are still on the books in various states, because they didn’t bother repealing them when they became invalid. Until very recently there was a whole list of states that still had anti-miscegenation laws on their books, but nobody claimed that those were still actual laws.
Not true, there were first amendment cases in the 1870s.
The point, though, is that the first amendment was never treated as a second-class right, and has been thoroughly enforced, so you don’t often find laws that violate it being enforced. The second amendment is still emerging from an era in which it was considered a third-class right, and the First Circuit hasn’t got the message. It will.
A “hate crime” is another word for “thought crime.” As it has been often said before, Orwell’s 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual.
No, it is not another word for “thought crime”, and anyone making such a claim shows either that he has no idea what a “hate crime” is, or that he has no idea what a “thought crime” is, or that he knows both and is deliberately dishonest.
There are no thought crimes in the USA. But, as in all countries, and as has been the case here since we had laws, there are crimes in which intent is an element. Those are not thought crimes.
However “hate crimes” are not like that anyway. Intent is not an element in any “hate crime”. It is merely a factor in classifying the crime once it has been committed.
Where are the misguided and naive folks telling us that this self-debasing, emasculated and contemptible behavior isn’t an obvious product of the vile Dhimmi-crats’ feckless and obsequious dhimmitude? That it’s just part and parcel of the Dhimmi-crats’ hostility towards Judeo-Christian values and heritage? Which, it obviously is, but, there’s more going on, here, in terms of motivating influences.
You don’t see the Dhimmi-crats muting and censoring expressions of Islamic religious devotion, ever.
Satan’s minions.
That is far from obvious, and is probably not true. They mean all religions. Obviously the religiously-themed eggs most likely to be submitted will be Christian, but there’s no reason to suppose they would accept an egg with an overtly Moslem, Jewish, or Hindu theme.
They’re trying to keep the egg roll, which is already inherently a secular event, secular. There’s nothing Christian about an egg roll, or a rabbit, or chocolate.
But, how can they constitutionally restrict the expression of religious themes and symbols while allowing non-religious ones?
Though on a smaller scale (what Nat’l Guard families are allowed to put on eggs for a WH celebration v Maine giving money to schools), this seems to be the same as Carson v Makin or the case its decision was based off whose name eludes me.
The point was made that the restriction was unconstitutional because it was strictly based upon religion rather than other requirements. IOW, they could simply deny religious themes/symbols that met the other restriction requirements in this case
IIRC, this also seems no different than school dress codes for teachers where the restriction of small expressions (crucifix necklace etc.) was deemed unconstitutional.
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But, more importantly, is there any claim that not restricting these themes violates the US Constitution?
Very simply. Even if it counts as a government event, it’s not required to be content-neutral; It’s only required to be viewpoint-neutral. Banning the entire topic of religion is viewpoint-neutral, and avoids any awkwardness. It’s no different than the ban on political topics, or sexual topics (which is what they mean by “inappropriate”).
There is no comparison to Carson v Makin, which was about a government benefit being denied to certain schools on the basis of their religion. That’s not the case here. There’s no benefit being given to some and not to others. There’s a limited public forum, extremely limited, so only viewpoint-neutrality is required.
One could go further and say this isn’t even a limited public forum, it’s government speech, in which case even viewpoint-neutrality is not required, but on the other hand the government can’t endorse any specific religion, in which case the ban on religious content might even be required. But I think that’s a less likely way to view it.
Carson v Makin was not based on the state restricting people because of their religion. It applied to any and all religious schools because they were religious rather than because of the nature of their religion, including being a specific religion.
Pointing out money is not changing hands doesn’t address the basis upon which the court made its decision. Money isn’t required for the 1st amendment to be violated, only for the government to be restricting it. Disallowing of religious themes does that.
The rules did not ban political content. They merely placed religion in the list of restricted inappropriate themes- bigotry, hatred, illegal acts, etc. Placing religion in with inappropriate themes is deeming religion itself inappropriate and not viewpoint neutral.
Don’t waste logic on millhouse, he’s just hamstering in his exercise wheel.
Yes, it was. It was entirely about the state denying certain schools a generally available benefit, because of their religious charter. That is not a factor here.
Of course it does. No benefit is being denied anyone on the basis of religion. That is the entire point of Carson v Makin, so the case is irrelevant here.
The government is not restricting it in any way. Setting the rules for what kind of art is admissible to a government contest does not restrict anyone’s free exercise of religion. Everyone is free to exercise their religion outside this contest.
“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”.
1. The government is not required to be viewpoint neutral, except in a limited public forum. 2. In any case this is viewpoint-neutral; what it isn’t is content-neutral, and that is only required in a traditional public forum, not in a limited one, which is the most this can be categorized as. When the government runs a contest like this it is entitled to set which topics are acceptable and which are not. It is allowed to exclude religion, just as it’s allowed to exclude sex or politics.
Separating Church and State does not mean the White House has to insult Christians,
It has not insulted Christians. If some Christians choose to take offense, they are the ones insulting themselves. And everyone else, by implying that they ought to be in charge and everyone ought to defer to them and their special day.
If we call it Christian PRIDE Day, the rules change.
Here, Milhouse, your windmill just dismounted you. There four beliefs at play for this time. Jewish , Christian, Pagan and secular Humanism…. The last co-opting the former three to it’s benefit. It isn’t a benign generic future under the thumb of Biden’s puppet masters. The true goal is freedom from religion.
Marxism is taking over
Easter Bunny Biden laid an egg.
Easter never made any sense in Sunday School either. Candy and colored eggs pretty much nailed it.
Anything religious is more or less gratuitously added.
There’s some nice music. Bach had the Easter Oratorio, St Matthew Passion, St John Passion. They could have a music contest.
Very hard to believe, except that Obama’s people are still in charge of the White House. I wonder if anyone who posts Easter religious images on social media will receive visits from the FBI?
What are you talking about? Nobody has banned anything from social media or from anywhere else. Why would you even think that the FBI would take an interest in that? You’re just being purposely stupid.
Right, because that sort of shit can’t happen in the USA either.
The story you linked to is completely different. Someone made a false report of an actual concern for a dangerous situation, so child welfare had to check it out just in case, because it it turned out to be true and they hadn’t bothered checking they’d be in the hot seat. And they took along some cops for protection, just in case.
No equivalent is possible if someone merely posts a religious image on social media. There’s no potential threat there, so there would be nothing for anyone to report. Someone calls and says “OMG there are children in that house and they’re practicing a religion” (it makes no difference which one), and child welfare says “And?”. They don’t visit because they know there’s nothing to see, and the police certainly don’t accompany them.
But even in your story the FBI did not get involved. There was nothing for them to get involved about. It was entirely a local matter.
Oh, Milhouse, excuse away, but the hits just keep on coming.
Just today:
Viral Videos Appear To Show FBI Agents Visiting Homes Over Social Media Posts
That’s “entirely different” from “anyone who posts Easter religious images on social media will receive visits from the FBI.” Right?
Oh, wait, I know — it’s “entirely different” because they did it on Thursday instead of a Tuesday.
The FBI visits people if their posts cause concern that they’re likely to commit a crime. You don’t know what this Moslem woman posted that cause the visit; maybe she posted support for Hamas or some other jihadist organization, along with an implication that she might be part of it, or giving it material support, or that she may stage an attack and become a shahid. That’s not probable cause to justify a search warrant or an arrest, but it’s certainly enough for reasonable suspicion, which justifies a polite conversation.
There is no possible comparison between that and posting religious themes. Nobody has ever been visited for that, and it’s insane to expect that they will be. Nobody has attempted to ban such posts, so why would the FBI even take an interest?
“You don’t know what this Moslem woman posted that cause the visit; maybe she posted support for Hamas or some other jihadist organization”
Sure you do, if you read the article. She fingered a career thug as having drugged, raped, and murdered her cousin. On social media. Not even a federal matter. So you’re still gonna go with, “but it wasn’t RELIGIOUS?” What’s it gonna take to convince you — the FBI infiltrating Catholic churches?
It is rather alarming to see all the reports of the FBI showing up people’s homes asking them about their FB posts. Okay, it’s VERY alarming.
Why is it alarming? You don’t know what they posted. Don’t you think law enforcement should take an interest, if someone posts something that gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that they might be planning or committing a crime?
You mean like “mostly peaceful riots” and “trans days of revenge?” Because if they’re interviewing anybody over those, it has escaped everyone’s attention.
This is not true. The “Biden White House” has not banned anything. The rules for the egg contest have not changed in many years. They were exactly the same under Trump, so why did we not have headlines about how “the Trump White House has banned all religious imagery”?
Incorrect.
The standard non-discrimination rules have been in place for years. Other bits have changed through the years. The sexual orientation bit was added throughout the years (after the standard bits were added 45 or so years ago) and the religious symbols bit added by Biden.
Says who? Have you seen a copy of the rules from the Trump years? Or are you just guessing?
Why should it have done that? It’s kept that day for the last 3 years, why should this year be different? It doesn’t have to mark that day at all, but since it’s already established that policy, not doing it this year would be a slap in the face to those people, and a declaration that a religious event overrides a secular one when they happen to coincide, which at least borders on an establishment clause violation.
Biden/Obama and their minions are not only authoritarian but Godless, and mockingly so.
Biden has literally bud lited easter, he has replaced jesus with dylan mulvaney.
smh
How has he done that? The egg rules have been the same for years, so Biden has nothing to do with them. And the coincidence of the two events is something that’s bound to happen so long as Easter keeps moving around on the calendar. You can’t expect other observances to set their dates and then say “Unless it’s Easter”.
Perhaps a footnote should have been added to the White House statement?
That you can roll as many religiously decorated plastic eggs to FJB you want, if they contain large campaign donations.
He has risen
He IS risen.
Forget about Biden and Kennedy.
I hope to one day have a Catholic President.
I haven’t yet found anything on the rules for this contest before the Biden era. But I did find the rules for last year’s contest, which was held in the fall of 2022. As you can see, the rules are the same as for this year, including the rule we’re discussing here. Still looking for something earlier.
What struck me is that the proclamation of the transsexual day or whatever it is, said it was to “honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans”. Could someone tell me what exactly are those contributions? I have nothing against transsexuals, and count some among my friends, but can someone fill me in on a significant contribution to this country made by a transsexual? It’s possible that there is one and I just haven’t heard of it. It’s not something I pay much attention to. But I just wonder what the proclamation could possibly be talking about.
Ru Paul hasn’t even managed to get the Fed audited yet.