Schools might have better things to do with limited funding than conduct such things as he is grieving over.

Is he concerned churches won't celebrate Isthar's big day so he wants public schools to do it?

How about educatingfor a change about more than this?

Idiocracy...

sense to remove the religion from holidays that are widely celebrated in a non-religious way.

Of all of them, Easter seems the most obvious.

Easter is a holiday you can more or less ignore if you're not Christian. It's not possible to ignore Christmas. (Believe me, I've tried. Christmas has become more ingrained in the society, and lots of non-Christians celebrate Christmas.

To me, the non-Christian symbols of holidays (fir trees, wrapped packages, dyed eggs, bunnies) are less "religious," and I feel more comfortable decorating with them than creches and crucifixes. I don't feel horrible about using them at work, where we have a very diverse group of people.

All that's a long-winded way of saying I don't see anything awful about an Easter egg hunt.

As to the OP, that man is either stupid, ignorant, or lying. Or all three.

it as just another weekend. With Christmas sometimes falling mid-week, it can be really disruptive to one's schedule.

I have managed to ignore christmas, though. Other than playing the Messiah in the morning and having the phone calls to family, it's just another day around here. But I am far from the rest of the world, and it's just easier for me to not see it.

Agree with you - an easter egg hunt can be great and it can be easily done without religious symbolism.

The man (Jeffress) is probably not stupid or ignorant. I think he lies to create faux outrage and advance his own person.

when I saw megachurch, Baptist and Dallas all lumped together.

I wonder what he would make of us here on the Border,with tables set up practically every other corner along major thoroughfares selling Easter bunny pinatas and huge bags of cascarones (confettii eggs.)

I spent one christmas season in Santa Fe, NM, and absolutely fell in love with the traditions of the spanish/catholic culture during the season. It was completely new to me.

In San Antonio families begin staking out camping sites early in the week. They get various family members to take turns babysitting a campsite. Its not quite Woodstock, but its very different from Easter in other locales.

We BBQ fajitas, chicken and sausage. When the kids were young we had bunny pinatas. We always do cascarones. Fortunately, we don't do the crowded camp ground thing.

have all been claimed since last Sunday. I'm a birder, and every year we see orioles' nests with Easter basket «grass» woven into them.

My senior year at UT, I exercised my privilege of living in non-supervised housing. That same year, the PTB decided there would be no Easter vacation. This precipitated a number of crises, including my attempt to explain to the Anglo guy in Rylander's meat department what fajitas are. We finally resorted to one of those cuts of beef charts and understanding ensued. Decent Mexican restaurants in Austin were still years away at that point.