Over at Focus on the Family, this holiday season, you can sign the “I Stand for Christmas” petition, which states:
I am troubled by the growing trend among retailers to secularize the Christmas season by marginalizing or refusing to use the word “Christmas” in marketing and promotional materials. Christmas is fundamentally a Christian holiday, and efforts to secularize Christmas are offensive.
I am joining Focus on the Family Action’s “I Stand for Christmas” campaign to call on retailers to stop purging “Christmas.” I stand for Christmas, and I urge you to stand for Christmas as well by highlighting “Christmas” in your stores, catalogs and Web sites. Further, I plan to consult Focus on the Family Action’s Shopping Guide, which categorizes retailers by their treatment of “Christmas,” while making my Christmas purchases this year.
I always like to run Christian-extremist activism through the WWJD lens. What would Jesus do here? Definitely threaten retailers who try to be inclusive of non- and different-believers.
And, of course, he’d keep a naughty-and-nice list of retailers to target, broken down by “Christmas-friendly,” “Christmas-negligent,” and “Christmas-offensive.”
Feel free to use this in exactly the opposite way from what was intended…
Christmas-friendly [boycott]:
| Bass Pro Shops Bed, Bath & Beyond Best Buy Cabela’s Circuit City Crate&Barrel Dillard’s Eddie Bauer |
JCPenney Kohl’s L.L.Bean Lands’ End Linens ‘n Things Lowe’s Macy’s Neiman Marcus |
Nordstrom Pier 1 Imports Sears The Home Depot Target Toys “R” Us Wal-Mart |
Christmas-negligent [buy stuff from]:
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Dick’s Sporting Goods
GAP
KB Toys
Kmart
Christmas-offensive [buy lots of stuff from]:
American Eagle
Banana Republic
Bloomingdale’s
Lane Bryant
Old Navy
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