200,000 Christian Shoppers are wearing "Its okay Wish Me a Merry Christmas" Buttons

PatrickMadrid ^ | November 25, 2009 | Patrick Madrid

[NYer]

There are plenty of creative and effective things Catholics and other Christians can do to push back against militant secularism, and this new button campaign is a good example. It's an overt way of publicly making an important point — i.e., Christmas is about Christmas, not some generic "holidays" — and you don't even have to open your mouth to do it. To be sure, wearing one of these buttons will likely lead to opportunities to speak verbally about this message, but even if no one queries (or challenges) you about it, they will read the message, and it will stick with them.

So, I say "bravo" to the people who came up with this idea. Let's have some more of this kind of stuff, just in time for the holid . . . I mean, for Christmas.

Over 200,000 shoppers are wearing buttons this Christmas season that proclaim a straightforward message to retailers: "It's OK, Wish Me A Merry Christmas(tm)." Individuals and churches around the country are partnering with the Wish Me A Merry Christmas Campaign mobilizing advocates energized for a return to the traditional, convivial greeting, bearing buttons that make a clear statement - "It's OK, Wish Me A Merry Christmas(tm) (www.wmamc.com)". Over 200,000 of these buttons have been distributed nationally.

With over 200,000 buttons on the streets and in stores this year, local store associates are likely to be presented with the opportunity to deviate from the corporate holiday wishing policy of top retailers like the Gap and Best Buy, and stealthily wish their customer "Merry Christmas" instead of the generic "Happy Holidays". But since 96% of Americans celebrate Christmas (Gallup Poll, 2004), it's likely that the store cashiers would prefer to wish their customers "Merry Christmas" as well. In fact 88% of Americans state that "It's okay to wish 'Merry Christmas'." (Gallup Poll). . . . (source

[NYer]

Love it! Gotta get one of these :-)

[Tax-chick]

As I just said on the Baptist thread, I want mine to say, “It’s okay to wish me a Merry Christmas on December 25.”

Happy Birthday!

[Uncle Miltie]

As a Jew, I always wish my Christian friends a Merry Christmas.

I appreciate that they aren’t spending all their days trying to figure out how to kill me, like the ROPers.

[SkyDancer]

I’m a Messianic Jew and I just copied it to print it out to wear it ... don’t know where you get the button or whether it’d arrive in time .....

[NYer]

As a Jew, I always wish my Christian friends a Merry Christmas.

Good for you! Do you have a Channukah bush at home at this time of the yearr?

I appreciate that they aren’t spending all their days trying to figure out how to kill me, like the ROPers.

Lol ... the Catholics view Jews as their brothers in the faith. My Catholic grandmother attended a Jewish school for the proper formation of women. And many of my best friends growing up were Jewish.

[NYer]

I’m a Messianic Jew and I just copied it to print it out to wear it ... don’t know where you get the button or whether it’d arrive in time .....

Don't know either but ... wear it proudly!

[SkyDancer]

Well sadly there is still this stuff happening.

NAPLES — Ten North Naples Middle School students were suspended last week after district officials said they participated in “kick a Jew day.” District Spokesman Joe Landon said a student told the dean of students at dismissal on Thursday that she was kicked because it was “kick a Jew day.”

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/nov/23/north-naples-middle-suspended-kick-a-jew-day-email/

[raybbr]

CLICK HERE TO BUY A BUTTON
OR A CAR MAGNET!

[SkyDancer]

Giving a couple to girlfriends as we all go do some shopping at the local mall ... should be interesting as I also wear a Star of David around my neck ......

[proudofthesouth]

As a Christian I say thank you for your Merry Christmas to us.

[SteamShovel]

"Its okay Wish Me a Merry Christmas" Buttons

The left will turn this around and say.....

.....It's offensive to the people who you are pressuring to say "Merry Christmas".

[netmilsmom]

>>I appreciate that they aren’t spending all their days trying to figure out how to kill me, like the ROPers<<

You made me spew Orange Crush on my screen.!
Lord Love you, FRiend.

[netmilsmom]

Can we have “Smackupside the head stupid kids who kick Jews” day?

[SkyDancer]

I think that’d be classified as a hate crime ...

[onedoug]

Ger b'emptsa, as I would term myself, I guess. But MERRY CHRISTMAS nonetheless, always.