FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS children have gathered on the South Lawn of the White House on the Monday after Easter to roll Easter eggs across the yard and meet the Easter Bunny. Seemingly few (if any) Washingtonians have ever tried to exploit the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for political purposes. Until now. A church-based homosexual rights group is planning to crash the event with a "family visibility action" to spotlight their non-traditional families.
Characterizing an effort encouraging gay and lesbian families to attend the annual event as "crashing", Tooley tries to define this public event as only being open to the children of heterosexual parents. Rather than accept the fact that all families have the right to participate in the Easter egg roll, Tooley casts the exercising of this right by gay families as a political act, whereas the motives of straight families are unquestioned. As gay families become more visible in our society, Tooley and other conservative activists are going to have a harder time trying to exclude these families from public life.