Best Buy just put themselves in the middle of the War on Christmas. A Best Buy ad with a Muslim theme is raising questions of how retailers should mark religious holidays. The ad on BestBuy.com wishes Muslims a happy Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday that lasts three days and happens to fall on the extended [...]

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It came as a major “hum-bug” to church fundraisers last year in Murfeesboro, Tennessee. A city ordinance limiting Christmas-tree sales threatened a decades-old tradition for local churches who used the seasonal event to raise funds. This week the city council gave them a little “Christmas-in-July” present. Churches and other institutions can sell Christmas trees now [...]

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Liberty Counsel, an advocacy group supporting traditional family values, just published their 5th Annual Naughty & Nice List highlighting those retailers avoiding use of the word “Christmas”. The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the slow decay of support of Christmas as a religious celebration in America. Here are this year’s offenders: [...]

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The American Family Association  won what they consider two key battles in the War on Christmas just a week before Black Friday 2007. Targeting Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers and Petsmart for being anti-Christmas, their campaigns to spread the word have resulted in immediate backpeddling by both retailers. In seasonal advertisements and catalogues Lowe’s has been derided in [...]

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A California-based temp staffing agency banned the phrase “Ho-ho-ho!” for Santas they were employing in the South Pacific. Their training of new Santas suggested the term could be taken as an offense to women, especially in light of the Don Imus flap earlier in 2007. A wide-spread media campaign brought attention to the policy only after [...]

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