Assault on Easter or Manufactured News Event?

Walnut Creek has renamed their "Easter Egg Hunt" to a "Spring Egg Hunt." I am not sure what is more surprising. That they did not expect a media firestorm, or that some local pastors are actually responding in exactly the right way.

"I'm not going to defend the Easter Bunny or eggs,'' says the Rev. Kevin Murphy, whose St. Matthew Lutheran Church is one of the largest in Walnut Creek and is just a few blocks from the annual egg hunt. "In my congregation, Easter egg hunts don't have a blessed thing to do with Easter, which is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Wow, sanity is entirely unexpected in cases like this!