While Protestant Fundamentalists frequently rail against it, usually calling for either a boycott of the holiday, or else a return to the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
Huh?
Honestly, I have never seen this, outside wack-a-doodle borderline sects.
We always say Mary Christmas just to make sure Mary comes first.”s”
There are several old time Lutheran churches within about 20 miles of Fort Wayne who actually discuss the ideas behind this on their websites. Otherwise they're pretty normal for Lutherans.
Then there are the Old Apostolic Lutherans ~ either kind too ~ pre or post reform in the 1800s. They don't have anything to do with Christmas OR doctors, yet they have a milieu of rules that puts the RCC to shame. They are not Fundies either.
I think what may be thought of as a return to Hanukkah is the much more common use of December 5 as OLD CHRISTMAS ~ which, when combined with a local aversion to Christmas tree lights might well be taken as a preference for another traditional feast day.
This sort of thing popped up in the free church movement ~ otherwise they're pretty much run of the mill Dutch and Swedish Presbyterians.
My paternal grandfather thought it unChristian to celebrate Christmas ~ my maternal grandfather thought it should be celebrated on December 25 ~ and that rule was enforced. So we did Christmas Eve, a totally different event, on the 24th with one set, and Christmas on the 25th with a major family reunion ~ with 30+ first cousins, all the inlaws, and the cousins and their kids from my grandmother's brother's family ~ her small 4 room home would creak, and bang, and we'd all eat like pigs with regular rest breaks where folks would go to other nearby houses to play canasta and drink thick, dark, spoon stands up in it cofffee and hot cocoa.
Grandma was very poor and i still miss her ~ we'd argue Social Security for hours ~ she loved politics ~ and never voted one single time for the evil FDR.