Political correctness—hop to it

The city of Agoura Hills recently announced an upcoming "Spring Egg Hunt" at the Reyes Adobe historical site. In addition to the spring eggs and spring time crafts at the April 11 event, there will be a spring bunny.

Oops. Where did the Easter bunny go?

Did it hop away?

With all due respect to the city's attempt at political correctness, Easter eggs are not "spring eggs" and the Easter bunny is not a "spring bunny."

We applaud the city's attempt to make the event open to people of all faiths. After all, it's being held on public property, not at a church. But that doesn't mean traditional names should be changed.

Look at it this way.

Since both Christian and Jewish families are celebrating the holy week with either an Easter dinner or a Passover seder, why not just call the gathering a "spring meal" so as not to offend either religion? But Jews wouldn't agree to that any more than Christians appreciate their Easter eggs becoming spring eggs.

As another example, consider the revered Hannukah menorah. Because Christians light multiple candles at Christmas, too, how about a new, one-size-fits-all name: "the holiday candelabra"?

No. It's called a menorah and it's a very important part of the Jewish religion. And yes, the little white rabbit is called an Easter bunny and it's indelibly linked to the Christian holiday this Sunday.

Just because the bunny and the decorated egg have gained broad commercial appeal, that doesn't mean the symbols are embraced by all religions.

The problem with the homogenization of holidays is that many of the faithful are offended.

As for this Saturday's spring celebration in Agoura Hills: Come one, come all. The "egg-stravaganza" starts at 10 a.m.