Every year in this country, a story emerges that some stupid organisation or other has just ‘banned Easter’. The general clockwork media template goes like this:
- Institution X is reported to have ‘banned’ Easter by removing all reference to the word and its associated Christian meanings from its products, buildings or services.
- Outraged Christians and conservatives register public complaints and protests against Institution X, threatening boycotts, often saying the measure has only been applied to appease Muslims.
- Institution X denies it has attempted to ‘ban Easter’ at all, saying its intentions and activities have been ‘misreported’.
- Closer examination reveals the meaning of Easter has indeed been obscured or tampered with, but not in quite the precise way the media first described, thereby allowing Institution X leeway to deny what has substantially just occurred on a mere technicality. As today’s mainstream media are largely biased against Christianity, most outlets then report this sanitised line as being the ‘truth’.
This year’s lucky Institution X chosen to act as an exemplary illustration was an obscure primary school near Southampton.
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