Who Is the Public?
Elisabeth Bumiller writes in the Times:
It had to happen: Washington's culture wars have now reached the Easter Bunny.How is it possible for members of the public to "crash" a public event? How is allowing children to participate in a public Easter Egg Roll exploitation?Some 200 gay families are planning to attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll next Monday to showcase themselves to the nation and President Bush. But some religious conservatives say the families are "crashing" the public event and exploiting children for political ends.
It takes two to make love but only one to make war. If Washington's culture wars have reached the Easter Bunny, it is not the families planning to particpate who made the Easter Egg Roll the front lines.