Posted on 11/28/2007 3:22:36 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
SAGINAW, Mich. -- Tightening budgets have forced Mt. Pleasant to take Christ out of their Christmas.
The traditional Dickens Christmas Festival has been re-named the Dickens Holiday Festival so the city can advertise in local schools.
In order to get more bang for their buck out of a thinning advertisement budget, the organization wants to put fliers in schools. For that to happen, the word Christmas had to be removed.
Downtown Development Coordinator Michelle Sponseller said many people are unhappy with the change.
We changed the name this year for the schools because we wanted to advertise in the school brochures and the schools have a list of words you cant use like Santa, Christmas and Nativity. So did a brochure for the schools and we took those words out.
Sponseller said they made a brochure for the public with word Christmas is still in it.
Downtown Development board member Kriss Roethleisberger said, The spirit of the event has not changed. We have the live Nativity, the lighted Christmas parade, the community Christmas sing. It was simply that on one piece of marketing material we had the use the word holiday.
The entire event is put on by volunteers and starts Friday, Nov. 30 and runs through the weekend.
The organization maintains the spirit of the festival wont change, simply the name.
After reading your post I thought you might enjoy a little song I wrote a few years back because I got tired of everyone trying to take Christ out of Christmas. It’s called “DID YOU FORGET WHY THERE IS A CHRISTMAS”
I have it up on my podcast page. You can listen to it there and if you like it you can help yourself to a free download.
It’s at: http://gloriajane.podomatic.com/
I also have a couple of my other Christmas songs on there that you might like. One called “Merry Christmas To Our Troops In Iraq (My Hero’s)and one called “ACLU Christmas”
Here I’ll put Him back in “CHRISTmas”.
Also from the “How to get your ass handed to you in the next election, lesson four” dep’t:
Christmas Censors Are Out In Force
catholic league | November 27, 2007 | Bill Donohue
Posted on 11/28/2007 1:52:48 AM EST by Coleus
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