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The right-wing American Family Association, which earlier this month criticized Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW) for calling Christmas trees "holiday trees," was aware of the the Home Depot "Miracle Trees" but had no other immediate comment. Word of the "Miracle Trees" also has spread to talk radio.
With the holiday season about a month away, AFA already is on a heightened state of alert to ferret out Christmas slights. The Gap (NYSE: GPS) is in the group's penalty box for "censoring Christmas" for the second year in a row.
"At Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, Christmas hardly exists. For these three companies, all owned by Gap, the only items listed as having anything to do with Christmas were a pair of boxer shorts and a child's sleepwear set," the group says. A spokesperson for San Francisco-based Gap couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Update: Gap spokesman Greg Rossiter denies the retailer is anti-Christmas. The company encourages its 150,000 workers to greet customers "warmly" during the holiday season. "They are not required to use that greeting (Merry Christmas) nor are they required not to," he said in an interview.
Who would have thought that Christmas wasn't commercialized enough?
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
12-02-2007 @ 10:13AM
boredwell said...
Fundamentalists from the far-side! To think that Lowe's et al is afraid of THEM! UGH! They should be heeded not for what they say but for what they are: one of the irritations of doing business in America. god help us!
12-04-2007 @ 1:25AM
MW said...
The war on Christmas (Rudolph! Get yer snowbombs !)
T'was the truce before Christmas
and in all of the front.
The humanists were plotting
to confound and confront.
The fundamentalists' drive
to victory on high
To drive all the infidels
from the earth, sea and sky !
Evangelicals were mad as a hatter
To hear these words, just made them much sadder!
Happy Holidays! Season Greetings !
A good year to all!
To Fundees, those are the words to their new fighting call !
With Jews, Muslims, Sikhs,
Hindus and Buddists alike
Taking solice in a holiday
that is a Christian rite.
That, to the Fundee, was just too much to bear.
Every Kwanzaa wish they heard, they heard as a jeer!
Everything they see, everything they hear
Everywhere they turn the evidence is clear
A war is on Christmas,
a war raging strong !
Nothing of Christmas would be left for long.
There were menorahs and lions
and Gays holding hands.
There were single parents with children
listening to Holiday bands.
And scientists curing diseases once
shunned through all the lands.
And geologists finding fossils
digging deep in the sands.
The Fundamentalists will soon set things right
and bring the Christmas spirit back by this night!
Say Merry Christmas, NOW! If you know what is good.
Take down those Kwanzaa signs, you know that you should!
With threats and boycotts, they couldn't be clearer,
It's Jesus's love, they hold so much the dearer.
They'll run through the streets
and knock all in a daze.
Who say Seasons Greetings!
or wish Happy Holidays!
They'll rout out Gay couples
sitting quietly at home.
and force them to listen
to the entire, old testament tome.
And how they will burn and whither and die.
It'll be enough to make grown men cry!
They'll ban vaccines that'll protect all our young lasses
For cancer will help chasten all of the masses.
They'll ban science and reason and teaching evolution
Creationism, they'll say, is God's only solution
They will plot and plan and fester and fuss.
NOTHING! will be spared to save the Christmas.
And when they are done, and had set it all right
and sent seculists down to their secular Hells.
Then they'll retire for a good night
and listen contently to ol' Jingo-Bells.
Good night and good luck !
12-03-2007 @ 12:05AM
lmason2926 said...
my worry is how many can afford the tree this year.
12-04-2007 @ 7:39AM
Chares H said...
What would Jusus do?
12-04-2007 @ 7:39AM
dom said...
You can not make this stuff up. I think all this political correctness has been carried to an extreme where it is now offensive. Why should we be scared to call a tree a christmas tree?
12-05-2007 @ 11:13AM
paul said...
MW You rock! And merry Christmakwanzachunukadiwzii to all!
12-13-2007 @ 7:05PM
Tammy said...
Reading all about folks boycotting GAP and other retailers due to the use of Holiday rather than Christmas.....correct me if I am wrong...but isn't Christmas Jesus' birthday? When did it become about shopping???? Look it up...no mention of shopping....On Christmas....place a candle in a cupcake and sing Happy Birthday for Jesus...don't think about shopping...giving...getting..it's not about you...it's about him..think back about how he and his family were refused a warm place to spend the night...they had nothing...gifts were brought TO HIM.....not everyone who refused them shelter...again...it's about HIM...don't shop anywhere for anything....