Washington Post - "Gri and Mott were two of about 200 gay and lesbian parents who came with about 100 children to the traditional Easter Egg Roll, along with about 16,000 other families."
Not exactly the "crashing" of the White House Easter egg hunt when you have only a few hundred gay and lesbian parents out of 16,000 other families.
Even at the White House Press Briefing did a "stuck on stupid" reporter tried to make a big deal of the Easter Egg Hunt:
Q And since this morning's annual White House Easter Egg Roll welcomed everybody, including those wearing rainbow leis promoting their sexual orientation, will next year's event include all sexual orientations, including those wearing arm bands proclaiming that pain is pleasure, or not?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les, the Easter Egg Roll is a very happy tradition at the White House that dates back to 1878. It is a time for families, and we welcome all families and their children who want to come and participate in the --
Q All orientations --
MR. McCLELLAN: -- Easter Egg Roll.
Q But my question was "all orientations."
MR. McCLELLAN: And you got a response to your question.
Q But that wasn't a response.
Ahem. Yes, it was a response. McClellan said "ALL families." Stop with the sniveling whine you reporter.
They said they were going to "crash" the White House lawn, raise all kinds of ire, get in line first, wear t-shirts, rant...rant...rant...etc..etc.... But at the end of the day the group decided to tone it down. However, it was still a political protest, albeit a very tacky one. They ended up wearing rainbow colored leis. However you look at it, it is no different from T-shirts or protest signs with political statements on them. Bottom line is that gay and lesbian parents used their children in order to make the White House Annual Easter Egg Hunt into a political affair. Why call this a political affair by gay and lesbian groups? Well, just read the news. It was a planned and coordinated event and wearing rainbow colored leis would be enough to ensure coverage from the press. It was never about the sanctity of children. It was all about gay and lesbian parents with their rainbow color leis saying "Hey, look at us, not the kids." They wanted to be the focus, and never about the children. It is supposed to be the kids' day, not the parents. Pure and simple. And yet I couldn't help but wonder how many gay couples actually used somebody else's child just to get into this event for the chance to make their own political statement?
Some found it sad to see this politicization knowing that doing so could create tension when it's really about the kids, and not the parents, day of fun.
Even many gays and lesbians agree that this annual event should be all about the children and not about the parents. Sadly, many refused to listen to reason and choose politics instead for this one day when it's really all about kids having fun on the White House lawn.Mark Tooley, a spokesman for the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy, criticized the gay and lesbian groups as "pretty sad." Some religious and social conservative groups complained that the lesbians and gays politicized the egg roll, a traditional annual event that dates to 1878.
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