5 Years Later NOW They Are Outraged Over Easter Bunny Name Change

[matcom]

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It's been nearly five years since Walnut Creek renamed its Easter Bunny the "Spring Bunny," but the name change became news on Thursday after a resident wrote a letter to the editor protesting it.

City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said he was surprised by the media buzz and TV news trucks outside City Hall Thursday, attracted by a change instituted in 2003 with no controversy. The city's Spring Bunny reigns over annual "Spring Egg Hunts" in two city parks.

"This will be the fifth year we are doing it that way," Rovanpera said. "This is the first complaint that I have ever heard. In fact, no one has ever complained to the city that we know of. This is from a letter to the editor."

But the author of the letter that a local paper published Wednesday, a former newspaper reporter named Michael Runzler, said banishing the word "Easter" from the bunny and the eggs strikes a nerve with many people. He is happy the story is getting attention, even if belatedly.

"First people can't wish 'Merry Christmas' at a store, and now they've taken Easter away from the Easter Bunny," Runzler said in an interview Thursday. "Everyone is welcome to celebrate what they want to celebrate, but if you're offended by an Easter Bunny or an Easter egg, then maybe you should not participate."

Runzler, a 12-year resident of the city, said he first noticed the "Spring Bunny" when he received a guide to events at city parks several weeks ago.

"I was just very surprised that the Easter Bunny had been banned in favor of a Spring Bunny," Runzler said. "It's particularly bad because this year's events (on April 7) are the day before Easter."

But Runzler, whose kids are past egg-hunt age, didn't realize the change had taken place years ago and has long been listed as the "Spring Egg Hunt" on the city's Web site and in city publications.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/02/BAGHQOE71I1.DTL

[skygazer]

1. Next thing you know, they'll take the Easter Bunny out of the bible!

Heretics! :grr:

[matcom]

2. AND The Great Pumpkin!

:grr:

[VenusRising]

3. Happy

Easter Spring!

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I was born in Walnut Creek

Place sure has changed since I left. x(

[mwdem]

5. This should not be a problem much anymore.

Since they found the bones, no more Easter. No bunnies, baskets, colored eggs....Peeps.

[underpants]

6. Yeah really? Same thing with Egg rolls now being called SPRING rolls

:grr:

[underpants]

7. *|*

[RedStateShame]

8. "Mummy, today I found a Lincoln log in me sock drawer." "That's the story of Jesus!"

RIP, Hicks.

[deucemagnet]

9. I like "Spring Bunny". It sounds more pagan.

Rabbits and colored eggs are pagan fertility symbols anyway, so we might as well call them what they are.

I see the vast left-wing conspiracy is progressing nicely! Just wait until the new Harry Potter book comes out this summer, that should turn some more children against Christianity. WE B STEALIN UR CHILDRENZ!!111!! MWUHAHAHAHAH!!!

[MountainLaurel]

12. You're right

Along those lines, I am thinking of doing a "rites of spring" display in the adult section of my library, to include books on how to keep your marriage spicy, fertility issues, animal reproduction, cooking game animals, and paganism.

:evilgrin:

[deucemagnet]

14. Cool!

It sounds like you know quite a bit about the subject! I must admit, I only bring up the pagan aspects of easter to goad fundies and lurking freepers. :evilgrin:

[PVnRT]

10. Bill Hicks:

"I can't think of a better way of teaching to our children the story of the death and resurrection of our Savior, than by telling them that a giant bunny rabbit came and laid chocolate eggs in the night."

[SiobhanClancy]

11. Hs long as he keeps bringing baskets of Cadbury Mini Eggs....

they can call the bunny anything they like.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. The 'They' is one pissed off little man.

I read his rambling LTTE the other day. Man needs to get a hobby.

[Richard Steele]

15. A pissed-off little man who's FIVE YEARS out of touch with local news.

Clearly not a person qualified to have input on public policy.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. And he's an ex-reporter to boot.

You know, someone who should be able to keep up with current affairs.