The article wasn't about the bunny and peeps phenomenon. It was about the older question of whether Easter was much earlier (well over than 1000 years ago) conflated with Anglo-Saxon paganism.
The correct answer is: No.
Happy Easter!
No neo-pagan excuses needed. If Christians spent half as much time looking for Christ as they do looking for the devil in every celebration, we’d all be better off.
Bunnies and eggs are fertility symbols and VERY DIRECTLY linked to the Anglo-Saxon goddess. And the article is full of beans, because it was well over 1000 years ago Easter was conflated with Anglo-Saxon paganism. Every bunny and egg proves it.
Easter (n.)
Old English Easterdæg, from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess of fertility and spring, perhaps originally of sunrise, whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *aust- "east, toward the sunrise" (compare east), from PIE *aus- (1) "to shine" (especially of the dawn); see aurora.
Bede says Anglo-Saxon Christians adopted her name and many of the celebratory practices for their Mass of Christ's resurrection. Almost all neighboring languages use a variant of Latin Pascha to name this holiday (see paschal). Easter egg attested by 1825, earlier pace egg (1610s). Easter bunny attested by 1904 in children's lessons; Easter rabbit is by 1888; the paganish customs of Easter seem to have grown popular c. 1900; before that they were limited to German immigrants.
If the children have no garden, they make nests in the wood-shed, barn, or house. They gather colored flowers for the rabbit to eat, that it may lay colored eggs. If there be a garden, the eggs are hidden singly in the green grass, box-wood, or elsewhere. On Easter Sunday morning they whistle for the rabbit, and the children imagine that they see him jump the fence. After church, on Easter Sunday morning, they hunt the eggs, and in the afternoon the boys go out in the meadows and crack eggs or play with them like marbles. Or sometimes children are invited to a neighbor's to hunt eggs. [Phebe Earle Gibbons, "Pennsylvania Dutch," Philadelphia 1882]
Ref: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Easter
Cite any scripture which mentions Easter (Pascha, Pesach) as a festival day to be celebrated by Christians. Cite any scripture which establishes any Christian festival day whatsoever. Without that, the evidence is incontrovertible: Easter (Pesach) became a Christian festival by way of adopting a non-Christian holiday (holy day; Passover is not a Christian event.)