{"id":16182,"date":"2024-03-31T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-contest\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:05:21","slug":"religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious-Themed Designs Banned from White House Easter Egg Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Children of the National Guard have been banned from submitting\u00a0religious-themed Easter\u00a0egg designs for the 2024 \u201cCelebrating National Guard Families\u201d art event at the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the event\u2019s flyer, an Easter egg design submission \u201cmust not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the White House Easter traditions, America\u2019s Egg Farmers \u2013 for nearly 50 years \u2013 have proudly presented an intricately decorated Commemorative Easter Egg to the First Lady of the United States. In 2021, the White House expanded on this longstanding tradition by displaying youth-designed Easter eggs in the White House East Colonnade,\u201d the flyer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2024_Youth_Art_Egg_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/b\/jill-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First Lady Jill Biden,<\/a>\u00a0The Adjutants General of the National Guard are asking youth from National Guard families across the United States and all U.S. territories to submit artwork inspired by the theme \u2018Celebrating our Military Families,\u2019\u201d the flyer continues.<\/p>\n<p>Children have been asked to design eggs with images based on their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelected 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,\u201d the flyer says.<\/p>\n<p>Children also have been instructed not to create material that promotes \u201cbigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age\u201d in their designs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Selected designs will be painted by artists on real eggs and displayed at the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/religious-themed-designs-banned-from-white-house-easter-egg-contest\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of the National Guard have been banned from submitting\u00a0religious-themed Easter\u00a0egg designs for the 2024 \u201cCelebrating National Guard Families\u201d art event at the White House.\u00a0 According to the event\u2019s flyer, an Easter egg design submission \u201cmust not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cAs part of the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}