"Why is it that the people at Target aren't allowed to believe something different than you?"
They can, thats not the point - this is about making an argument for Christians not to support their policies. If you support Target, libs or anything else - go for it. But this is a Christian nation - founded on Christians beliefs, and to remove the term Christ from this holday is disingenous and secular. 85-90% of all Americans are Christian - we wouldnt want to offend the .1% Muslims? Christ is the reason for the season.
The problem of course is that Christ is NOT the reason for the season. Christmas is not even CLOSE to the only holiday is the holiday season. There's Thanksgiving, Hanukah, New Years and tons of other little holidays. Christ is the reason for YOUR version of the season, but you aren't the only shooper at Target or Lowes or any other of the THOUSANDS of retailers that use "Happy Holidays" because they know they've got a vast variety of customers. Oh and the whole story is based on LIES anyway, Target and Lowes both have TONs of CHRISTMAS trees. Don't boycott because of lies told to you.
To me, this is not about SUPPORTING a policy. It's about continuing to shop at a place I've been shopping at for over 10 years.
It's certainly NOT about supporting liberalism or about promoting any other belief system than my own.
I know just as well as the next person on this site what this country was founded on and it's just as important to me. But I'm not going to be a person who doesn't allow for any tolerance.
And if Target wants to say...."ok, we are going to open up our terms and allow for the fact that there are other religions here and whatever" then I am NOT going to be someone who says they shouldn't do that.
It's up to them. It doesn't bother me. Because I know what Christmas is to ME. To my religion. To my family.
Again, I'm not saying you shouldn't boycott. I understand where you're coming from. I just have a lot of friends of other religions and I guess I can see Target's point too.
So I keep my beliefs close to me and my family on this issue and keep the retail side of Christmas on the retail side.
We keep the Christ side in our hearts.