(Editor's note: Some stories we just can't pass up. We thought you'd enjoy this one from an extreme right wing group. And no, we won't be publishing their "Naughty and Nice" list. Wonder where they stand on freedom of speech? Ho, ho, ho and a Merry Christmas to all. Hopefully we are now on the nice list.)
Orlando, FL - Liberty Counsel is continuing its eighth annual "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign," pledging to be a "Friend" to those entities that recognize Christmas and a "Foe" to the Christmas censors. Liberty Counsel is also releasing an updated "Naughty and Nice" list, which catalogs retailers who either censor ("naughty") or recognize ("nice") Christmas. The list is compiled from information gathered by consumers and is updated whenever new information is received.
Liberty Counsel encourages shoppers to print out the list and use it to decide which stores to patronize during the Christmas shopping season. The list has been very influential in motivating retailers to acknowledge Christmas. So far this year, Best Buy has embraced Christmas and switched to the nice list, and Dick's Sporting Goods has promised to change and include Christmas in their advertising.
Liberty Counsel was the first organization to launch the "Naughty and Nice" list a number of years ago and since then other organizations have promoted similar programs. The results have been amazing. Major retailers like Wal-Mart moved from the "naughty" side of the list to the "nice" side. There was a time when Wal-Mart sold only "Holiday Trees," not Christmas Trees and when Wal-Mart employees were forbidden from returning the greeting "Merry Christmas" to customers who initiated the greeting. But Wal-Mart, like many other retailers, has changed and now openly acknowledges Christmas.
Liberty Counsel encourages consumers to report the naughty and the nice by sending an email to Liberty@LC.org. Liberty Counsel also encourages shoppers to compliment the nice stores and tell the naughty ones that you will shop elsewhere,
Liberty Counsel also offers a Christmas Action Pack, which includes educational legal memoranda to inform government officials, teachers, parents, students, employees and others that it is legal to celebrate Christmas. Liberty Counsel has handled numerous situations restoring Christmas to schools, events and even a nursing home.
Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, remarked: "Consumers can have a big impact this year by choosing to shop at stores that acknowledge Christmas. Retailers that profit from Christmas while pretending it does not exist will find that consumers will shop elsewhere."
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This is a great idea! Christmas shopping at stores that promote the actual meaning of Christmas: the birth of Christ! Makes sense to me.
What a great day (Thanksgiving, the day before Black Friday) to have this discussion. I agree that Christmas has been commercialized to the point of nausea, but I'm afraid this is more about making sure everybody understands this is a Christian nation and anybody else can just stay home. I will always come down on the side of inclusiveness and tolerance, and I firmly believe we better be careful not to make the same mistake made by those whose countries we left to found the United States so we could worship as we pleased. Having said that, either Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays works just fine for me. I don't think we should boycott stores that go one way or the other.
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I suppose no Jews will be shopping this Christmas. Or Muslims or any number of people with different views of religion.
It sounds innocent enough - just acknowlege that the day is called Christmas, they say. Actually, very few people would object to that.
However, in a spirit of fairness, should we insist that stores also advertise Channukah (sp?) or Kwanza or holidays of all faiths?
Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus and is therefore a great festival day for all people of Christian belief. No issue there.
Requiring all people, regardless of their personal faith, to also celebrate Christmas sounds,
well,
a bit un-Christian.
I'm still gonna start a non-Christian bookstore. Teehee.
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