"Wal-mart is one of many stores asking its employees to replace Christmas with "Happy Holidays". The company says its trying not to offend anyone, by catering to one kind of celebration"
I heard a local news story on this last week where the store manager said "they didn't want to offend Jewish or Islamic customers by mentioning Christmas" (in the south, mind you). My BS meter went off immediately. They don't want to offend the ATHEISTS. They are the only group that complains about everything Christian. The largest segment of of the Atheist contrares,appears to be (guess who), the gay movement.I make it a point to say Merry Christmas to anyone who gives one of these phony sounding holiday greetings. The workers in the stores seem to appreciate it, as they seem to always smile in agreement.
I think those of us who feel strongly about this should politely let the managers of those stores who would rather eliminate Christmas from public utterance that we will be chosing to purchase our Christmas gifts from those stores that do not find us offensive.