CNN needs to go just a little deeper into Easter to find that the word does not appear in the New Testament, and in fact the early Church did not observe it. They observed the Passover.
Easter was forced on the Church by coercion of capital punishment by government, specifically by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. So, while Christians rightly complain about the moral implications of allowing government to seize control of their health care, they are going off to Easter Sunday services that has its theological basis in a political expediency of a long-dead Roman Emperor.