I swear … there are people who will freak out over any perceived slights to their beliefs. And this weekend – there were two separate slights going on. And they both involve Easter.
The first one came from conservative groups who are hollering that the submitted designs for the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll will not have any religious imagery or decorations on the souvenir eggs, or on the White House property for the egg roll itself – which takes place on Easter Monday.
Of course … if anyone does a sliver of research on this topic … they might find that the Easter Egg Roll at the White House has not HAD any religious-themed iconography for … oh … the past 45 years. In fact, the prevailing decoration on the souvenir Easter Eggs at the Egg Roll has been … a picture of the White House itself.
But that’s not good enough for these chuds. Now they’re griping about President Biden recognizing and proclaiming March 31st as the International Transgender Day of Visibility.
I guess we have to go calendar-checking again, don’t we?
The first recognized Transgender Day of Visibility took place in 2009, and March 31st was selected as the day of recognition. Easter fell on April 12th of that year.
In 2021, President Biden did issue a proclamation of March 31st as Transgender Day of Visibility. Can you tell me when Easter was celebrated in 2021? Bueller? Bueller? It was on April 4th.
Because … here’s a little tip for you. Easter doesn’t fall on the same date each year. Easter is calculated as the first Sunday after the full moon that follows March 21st, the spring equinox.
And if you’re wondering … the Easter date for 2025 falls on April 20th. 4/20. You know … the slang code for a bag of marijuana.
Oh, this definitely gives the fanatics a year to plan this. “Oh, how terrible Joe Biden is that he would schedule Easter to fall at the time when all those hippies and weed-smokers and Deadheads celebrate getting stoned! Where are my pearls, I need to clutch them now!!”
Anyway … have a blessed Easter, acknowledge the great works of those in the trans community, and make sure you stock up on CBD’s and edibles for Easter 2025.
Because it’s one thing to see a long-haired dude in flowing white robes coming out of a tomb …
Without realizing it’s just someone who just inhaled a baseball-bat-sized roll of Maui Wowie.
Chuck The Writer 
I hear where some are promoting the idea that the upcoming solar eclipse will be the end of the world (probably also Biden’s fault) so next year’s calendar of coincidences won’t matter.
The older you get, the more stupid the rest of the world seems.
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Conservatives seem to have a need to whine about something, anything at all. I’m thinking some of these peabrains have pictures of “Doug & Wendy Whiner” (Joe Piscopo was Doug) from Saturday Night Live in the 80’s as a shrine of some kind……!!
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What really gets me about Easter is how it’s so all over the place… and yet, we have “Christians” that are freaking out about Transgender Day of Visibility (which is great that it’s being recognized at a federal level) just happens to fall on one of the earlier Easters we’ve had in awhile. Why is it, that such an important CORNERSTONE of Christianity is celebrated on the basis of the lunar cycle after the vernal equinox? That doesn’t sound very Christian to me… just another example of Established Religion, Inc. coopting a Pagan festival because they’re too damn lazy to come up with their own holidays! They think by co-opting Pagan traditions – including the Easter eggs – that somehow their religion will drown out the true origins of these “holy days.” We must not let them win!
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