With this secular substitute that doesn't mention God...
Two can play this game...
Posted on 11/30/2004 10:07:49 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING
HOLIDAY BLUES Macy's stores boycotted for replacing 'Christmas' Effort punishes 'Miracle on 34th Street' icon, claims chain offending millions of customers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Immortalized in a 1947 Christmas movie classic, Macy's is now the focus of a boycott campaign protesting the department-store chain's replacement of "Merry Christmas" with politically correct greetings.
1947 Christmas classic "Miracle on 34th Street" featured Macy's department store
A group called the Committee to Save Merry Christmas says Macy's and its umbrella Federated Department Stores have ignored several requests that "Merry Christmas" signs be returned and that its advertising acknowledge the time-honored phrase.
"It's the height of hypocrisy for a corporation to make tens of millions of dollars selling Christmas presents, yet coldly refuse to acknowledge Christmas," said the group's chairman, Manuel Zamorano, in a statement. "What's the holiday all about, anyway? Politically correct phases like 'Seasons Greetings' and 'Happy Holidays' are no substitute for the real thing."
Macy's was featured in "Miracle on 34th Street," the Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood film set in the department store's celebration of Christmas. The flagship store in New York also is famous for its elaborate Christmas-season window displays.
Zamorano says Macy's and its affiliated stores have been "systematically" removing references to "Merry Christmas" over the past several years.
"This is offensive to the sensibilities of millions of average Americans," he said. "Eliminating 'Merry Christmas' is plain wrong. It’s time to remove Macy's and Federated from the Christmas shopping list."
Federated Department Stores, Inc., operates more than 450 stores in 34 states under names such as Bloomingdale's, Bon-Macy's, Burdines-Macy's, Goldsmiths-Macy's, Lazarus-Macy's and Rich's Macy's.
Zamorano, a Sacramento, Calif., media consultant, expects his campaign to take several years before it gets results.
One year ago, he wrote to Federated's then-chairman, James Zimmerman, saying he hoped a boycott could be avoided.
"We find this to be personally, culturally and traditionally offensive when it is known by everyone your company actively solicits our patronage and purchasing of gifts for the Christmas celebration, and now refuses to acknowledge Christmas in your stores," Zamorano wrote.
The boycott was launched in May when new Chairman Terry Lundgren did not respond to a follow-up letter.
A Macy's spokeswoman did not return WND's call requesting comment, but the company told Citizen magazine earlier this year it believed Zamorano had unfairly singled out Federated, because other stores have the same practice.
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I've not gone to Macy's in a while. I'm so over mall shopping. I try to go to little clothing shops and support local small business. Not big corporations who care little for family values.
Thank you. I'll let Macy's know when they receive my cut-up credit card and the explanatory letter.
Why is Christmas singled out for exclusion?
Why is the Christian Cross unacceptable to LA?
Why is the name Jesus being edited out of our culture?
Because...
"This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
- Acts 4
"...there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
I'm so tired of this PC garbage. I didn't like Macy's before and I like them even less now.
I've never been to a Macy's. Do they have a hardware department?
Corporate America deserves not the support of the right, but increasingly, our active hostility. The Macy's and Target situations are just two examples. We are the party of SMALL business, not of ALL business. If big business won't show any respect for our culture, let's not give them any more of our money than we have to.
We need a social revolution in this country, and it can start with the spending habits of millions of good people.
Christmas is a CHRISTIAN holiday. Always has been, always will be. The atheists and the ACLU can try to separate church and state, but they'll never take away the true reason why there is a Christmas from those of us who truly believe.
The Progressives (communists) in this country know that their ideas will always remain rejected as long as we retain our Christian heritage. It's paramount for the left-wing in this country to destroy Christianity, and to replace it's inherent morality with their own twisted ethics. Freedom flows naturally from Christian ethics, in my opinion, and no one can take our freedom unless they destroy or water down that source.
I hate malls myself .. nothing like walking in fear in the parking lot as some idiot almost runs you over just to get a parking space
Oh the lovely rude people that knock over your kids because they are in their own little world and not paying attention ??? .. they are fun too ... /sarcasm >
With this secular substitute that doesn't mention God...
Two can play this game...
See? You know what I'm talking about LOL I'm usually SUV friendly EXCEPT when going to the shopping mall.
Totally agree. And, the best place to start (IMO) is by refusing to watch network TV...news, sports, shows, etc.
Ad revenues for the MSM is equivalent to oil revenues for Islam. The sooner we move away from both, the better.
(need a deep breath and breath easily before my heart and head explode).
I don't shop Macy's and other department stores. They are a rip-off.
Yes. We should consider ourselves at war with Hollywood and the MSM and alter our spending habits and lifestyles accordingly. Ditto for any big corporation that conspicuously opposes our values -- e.g., by excluding the Salvation Army or the Boy Scouts, eliminating references to Christmas, using excessively sexual imagery in advertising, or discriminating against whites, men, or religious believers.
When I'm at a mall, I'm always reminded of the scene in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes
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