I'm with Jax on this. Lilith, I'm looking at this from a non-Christian point of view, and, while Easter has no significance for me, I don't mind that others wish to celebrate it (I am assuming here that we are talking only about banning references to Easter, not banning some major celebration at work, in which case I may have a different attitude). Surely your hypothetical Jewish American would adopt a similar attitude? If not, where is the tolerance?

There seem to a lot of stories over here in the UK about similar PC bans (Father Christmas could not visit a nursery because he might scare the kids, springs to mind).

Multiculturalism is all about compromise and tolerance. We cannot ban everything (although Tony Blair is trying his hardest) because someone, somewhere doesn't like it. I am saying this as a hardline atheist. I have made my views plain earlier, but even I do not advocate banning religious ceremony and celebration.