Consumers Flock to Weekend Shopping Boycott(Target Boycott and Lowe's sells "Holiday" Trees)

American Family Association ^ | November 22, 2005 | Jody Brown and Allie Martin

[eleni121]

You don't like bells...care to say why?

Are you a Muslim perhaps?

[fight_truth_decay]

"Happy Holidays", and had an employee to reply to an email with a denial of Christmas (brought up the pagan origins of the holiday).

Untrue. Kirby took that on his own to correspond in that manner with a customer. 'Holiday greetings' are to extend from Thanksgiving thru New Years. Also if you read the facts on this "Greenwald type" reporting, one would see Kirby was fired immediately and management responded they had never denied any employee the option of wishing anyone Merry Christmas. And you easily can prove that fact by offering up a greeting yourself at the Local Mega Super Store.

(The Catholic League first reported the e-mail)

Happy Holidays
..all of them ;)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I used to work for the company that made both of them as well as the Europa series. My brother-in-law roomed in college with one of the owners.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I noticed Bath and Body Works and Coldwater Creek have Christmas on the front and inside covers of their Christmas catalogs.

I can think of several family members who would be delighted to receive gifts from either of these two companies. Thanks for the tip!

[singfreedom]

I have always LOVED those bells too!! They were one of the signs Christmas was not far away. I didn't realize how much I missed them until some of the stores no longer had them. When we were children, my parents used to let my sisters and I take turns putting change (we didn't have a lot) in the red kettles. It was a wonderful way to share.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I went to the nearby chain grocery store tonight (one of the big grocers here in the Chicago area). There was a bell ringer outside tonight who was singing along with her bells. I happily dropped in a $10 and wished her a Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving.

(Are you a singer?)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

That's a real disappointment and a cop-out by Lands End, especially coming from them who always used to run Christmas stories in their catalogs. I guess I won't be shopping there either this year.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I suggest you contact afa.net and let them know about that letter, so they can add Lands End to the list of erring retailers.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I went here on Bath & Body Works - voila! "Christmas in Provence". Sounds nice. I think I'll get the box for my sister.

[singfreedom]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! Trying to start their own little "holiday tradition", I guess. What a pile of it!!!

[singfreedom]

That's not really so unusual. We have had several Pakistani exchange students over the years and they freely admit that their families have CHRISTMAS trees and they even exchange gifts! (My hubby was stationed in Pakistan, speaks the language, and enjoys the chance to practice.)

Our students were always of the more "liberal" type and from "burger families", so called because of their more westernized ways.

[twntaipan]

There Christmas stories were always excellent. It is disappointing that they find Christmas offensive.

[singfreedom]

I used to be----many cigarettes ago! I do still love it so much though! Especially at Christmas. Those wonderful God filled carols are, unfortunately, another casualty of the PC craze.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Please check your FReepmail in just a bit.

[Casloy]

I compare this to the 2000 elections. I think the left was extremely shocked and rocked on their heels when Freepers and other conservatives protested in Florida and outside the VPs house.

I would not compare it to the 2000 election. What the freepers did in Florida changed the course of history and put their efforts where it really counts, in places where the left tries to take power by any means necessary. Look, if people are offended by the change from Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays they should shop somewhere else, and even let the retailer know why. But, organized boycotts over things that are not that significant take away from where we can truly make a difference. I'd rather see all this energy be put toward school vouchers, abortion, so called right to die, and a myriad of other issues where we can really change the culture.

[Casloy]

I am disgusted by "major corporations" support for homosexuality. And yes some actively funnel money to pro-homosexual charities.

Fine, you are disgusted. But when you drag the entire conservative movement into pointless and useless campaigns, we lose. Most Americans don't spend a lot of time worrying about homosexuals and I would venture to say the general attitude is live and let live in this regard. The left absolutely loves it when we get involved in these kinds of issues because while we fiddle on the edges they take control of our schools, our government, and our courts.

[Borax Queen]

Oh, so cool! I really like some of the cinnamon orange stuff they have (and bought some already, lol). I hadn't been paying much attention until I started hearing how(again) certain stores were banned from saying the "C" word. So, I went back and looked at all the catalogs. Coldwater Creek has sent three recently: one said "holiday," the next "autumn" (or maybe Fall), and the most recent said CHRISTMAS right on the front. Just like you said - excellent reason to support these places and I'm really glad I won't have to send them letters or boycott them :)

[bulldozer]

Casloy quote:Look, if people are offended by the change from Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays they should shop somewhere else, and even let the retailer know why. But, organized boycotts over things that are not that significant take away from where we can truly make a difference. I'd rather see all this energy be put toward school vouchers, abortion, so called right to die, and a myriad of other issues where we can really change the culture.

What is the right supposed to do when the left censors Christmas from the public square and private business. Lay down and let their bodies be walked on. Removing Christmas is a stepping stone to giving the left more power to defeat school vouchers, pro life, and other issues.

[Casloy]

What is the right supposed to do when the left censors Christmas from the public square and private business.>/I>

It's not the left, it's a bunch of misguided CEOs who think this makes sense. They are worried about the bottom line and not being political or leftist.

[singfreedom]

(Applause) Thank you! I'm not talking "political right" here, I'm talking "Christians". We have given them too many inches and they have taken too many miles. The Christmas holiday, for Christians, is supposed to be a day of such unbridled joy that it spills over to those of other faiths and cultures. We have done that so successfully, its become a commercial windfall. That's a good thing.
The bad thing is when our businesses take OUR wonderful day of celebration, hijack it, change its name, so people of other faiths and cultures feel "comfortable" celebrating it!