Gayster Bunny Update

I told you about this story back in January (The Gayster Bunny). Gay activists have decided to turn the White House Easter Egg Roll into a publicity stunt:

Next Monday, some 200 gay families are planning to attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll to showcase themselves to the nation and President George W. Bush. But some religious conservatives say the families are "crashing" the public event and exploiting children for political ends.

"We're not protesting the president's policies on gay families," insisted Jennifer Chrisler, the executive director of the Family Pride Coalition, the organizer of the gay families attending the event. "We are, however, helping him understand that gay families exist in this country and deserve the rights and protections that all families need."

Not so, said Mark Tooley, the director of the United Methodist committee at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an influential conservative group.

"It's facetious and not very persuasive for Family Pride to say they're not making a political statement," Tooley said in an interview last week. In the conservative Weekly Standard magazine in January, Tooley called the gay families crashers and surmised that President Rutherford B. Hayes, who held the first public White House Easter Egg roll in 1878, never would have imagined the controversy that the event was stirring up more than a century later.

This will turn a rather innocuous White House event into an awkward political event, and once again the gay activists will have overplayed their hand. Though the press may treat them sympathetically, it won't change the opinions of most people that this is neither the time nor the place for a gay rights political stunt.