The Trump marketing campaign’s assertion additionally claimed that “Joe Biden’s White Home prohibited youngsters from submitting non secular egg designs for his or her Easter Artwork Occasion … Sadly, these are simply two extra examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long assault on the Christian religion.”
This 12 months’s Easter Egg Roll custom, which has been held yearly on the White Home since 1877, will honor navy households by together with egg designs submitted by youngsters of Nationwide Guard troops. In response to a flyer circulated by the Nationwide Guard and obtained by NBC, the designs “should not embody any questionable content material, non secular symbols, overtly non secular themes, or partisan political statements.”
Nevertheless, in keeping with representatives of the White Home and the American Egg Board, which companions on the White Home for Easter occasion, the rule in opposition to overtly non secular imagery has lengthy been in place. “The American Egg Board flyer’s customary non-discrimination language requesting paintings has been used for the final 45 years, throughout all Dem & Republican Admins,” stated Elizabeth Alexander, a spokesperson for first woman Dr. Jill Biden.