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| God's Warrior |
Use of "Merry Christmas" AttackedBest Buy Bans Use of Merry Christmas in Advertisinghttp://www.afa.net/petitions/issuedetail.asp?id=222 Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry Christmas." UPDATE!Best Buy is blocking emails! Please call their corporate office and ask for Chairman Schulze to express your displeasure at their "Anti-Christmas" policy. The number is 1-612-291-1000. Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry Christmas." Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., says their advertising will not be using the term "Merry Christmas." "We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them," Bryant said. Click here for reference article. While many other retailers have decided to begin reusing "Merry Christmas", Best Buy will not be among them. Best Buy considers the use of Merry Christmas to be disrespectful. But while Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics company in the nation, will not be mentioning Christmas, they sure do want the shopping dollars from those who remember the Reason for the season. Send an e-mail to Best Buy telling them of your disappointment at their decision to ban Christmas in their advertising. (You may receive an auto-reply. If so, that is ok. Don’t worry about it, your e-mail has been received.) |
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| God's Warrior |
Town's Parade Draws Fire for Dropping 'Christmas'The Associated Press
Posted on Thu, Oct. 23, 2008 A famed fireworks company is pulling out of a holiday boat parade because "Christmas" was dropped from the event's name. Fireworks by Grucci won't lend its sparkle to Patchogue's Nov. 23 parade - decorated yachts on the Patchogue River - because the organizers have renamed it the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade. It was the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade last year, when the Grucci company donated $5,000 worth of fireworks. The company's vice president, Philip Butler, who has criticized the secularization of Christmas in the past, said parade organizers were "using all the themes of Christmas and plagiarizing all those themes." Organizers in the Long Island town said the parade has had several names over its roughly 15-year existence. The name was changed again this year after complaints that the use of "Christmas" seemed to make the parade less inclusive. "When I think about fireworks, I don't think about Christmas anyway," Mayor Paul Pontieri said. "I think about the Fourth of July." The venerable Grucci company is famous for providing spectacular fireworks displays at major national celebrations. It is based in Brookhaven, not far from Patchogue. http://www.kentucky.com/523/v-print/story/565536.html |
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| Aloe |
At Christmas time, I wear a Christmas tree pin on my jacket. I noticed last year, that when I was wearing this, the employees at my local grocery store told me "Merry Christmas" instead of Happy Holidays. I think even the Jewish cashier (who is my favorite employee there) wished me a Merry Christmas.
"Happy Holidays" has been around for a long time, at least since I was a kid 30+ years ago. It once was just short for "Merry Christmas and a happy New Year". But now since it's gotten to be so politically correct, I won't buy wrapping paper or Christmas cards that say "Happy Holidays" or refer to the season just as "the holidays". Maybe if all Christians did that, companies would catch on and produce more "Christmas" stuff. |
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| God's Warrior |
Good for you! I do the same thing. I have started buying cards with Christian messages rather than the fluffy ones that don't portray any message of what Christmas is really all about. It had gotten hard to find them a few years ago but last Christmas I found more of them than I had in the past few years in stores other than Christian book stores. I have stopped shopping at stores that won't allow the word Christmas in their stores. I love the idea of wearing a button or pin with the words Merry Christmas on it. Not much they can do about that other than throw me out. 
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