Christians and conservatives on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden for so ostentatiously promoting Trans Visibility Day on Easter Sunday.
But Biden also stepped all over Christianity’s holiest day in a different context.
As the conservative website Trending Politics reported on Saturday, Biden’s White House prohibited children from offering “religious-themed” Easter egg designs for this year’s “Celebrating National Guard Families” art event.
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This event is part of the White House’s Easter traditions, including the Easter egg hunt and “roll,” which date back to the late 19th century.
The administration’s instructional flyer for the art contest stated that the art contest dates to 2021, when Biden implemented a display for youth-designed Easter eggs at the White House. The art event is open to children of National Guard personnel, primarily ages 7 to 17.
“Selected designs representing the unique experience and stories of National Guard children will be brought to life on real hen eggs by talented egg artists from across the country and displayed at the White House this Easter and Passover season,” the flyer continued.
Then, it got into what was banned from being depicted on the eggs.
Egg designs “must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
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Biden’s White House’s banned artwork for Easter eggs lumped religious symbols in with any art that would promote indecent or obscene messages, bigotry, illegal drugs, or guns.
Fox News, which also reported on the egg-decorating contest, noted that the American Egg Board, the trade group representing farmers which for 47 years has partnered with the White House in the annual Easter festivities, said the group was bound by the Biden administration’s rules.
Board President and CEO Emily Metz told Fox News, “I think it’s important to know that everything we do from a marketing and promotion standpoint, because we are a check-off, we have very strict guidelines under the USDA.”
“We all have to follow (sic) kind of guidelines, which essentially, number one, we can’t discriminate against any other commodity. We can’t go out there and say, ‘Hey, pork is awful and we only should only get eggs.’ We have to be very, clear about that.”
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Metz added, “We also can’t promote one type of egg over the other type of egg. So we have to be, excuse the pun, egg-nostic. And we also, most importantly, can’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual identity, any of that.”
“So when we say, can’t be overtly religious, we just can’t be seen to be promoting one religion over the other, the same way we can’t be seen to be promoting one political viewpoint or ideology over the other,” she continued. “We have to be totally neutral in everything we do and have it just be focused on egg promotion and marketing activities. And this is obviously a huge opportunity for us to showcase the incredible eggs in a really fun and unique way.”
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