>>everyone show up with a 'Merry Christmas' sign and sing all the traditional Christmas carols during the parade.
I live in a city of 38,000 near Boston and a few years ago the Christmas parade (actually "Santa Parade") turned into the Holiday Parade (though Santa is in it). It's too late to do anything about it this year, but I suggested to a co-worker who also lives in my city that "next year, bring your kids and hold up huge signs saying "Merry Christmas".
The local cable access channel re-runs the parade
endlessly--wouldn't it be nice to have the camera
pan across the crowd, and there are the signs?
Fighting back pt 2: as you pay for your Christmas
purchases at the dept. (or grocery store), when
the cashier says "Happy Holidays" to you, respond
with "and a MERRY CHRISTMAS to you!" in a slightly
raised tone of voice. Maybe the folks behind you in
line will say, "You know, it's about time someone
put Christ back in Christmas!" Or maybe not.
Everyone is missing the point. The PC government of this very PC city could not care less if they offend christians. That is the basic idea. No, if you want to change the policy, advocate a boycott of all Denver shops for Xhristmas and push for shopping in the suburbs. If a few tens of thousand of people made it clear they were taking their business elsewhere, the business who really run the city would howl loud and long.
Simply protesting gets one no where. Hit them in the wallet and let the cities businesses explain to the city government the error of it's ways.