That's wise, and probably less controversial. Everybody is still free to have a 'booze cruise' or rent a Hamptons house for $10k of course, but the church/school's 'branding' of the event - and it's satellites - is now gone.
Read the letters and don't rely on the AP to tell you the whole story. They neither have the space nor do they have the interest in accurately depicting the news about moral issues...
It doesn't really matter in this case, I think.