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'Merry Christmas' - Or No Sale
CBS News ^ | Dec. 16, 2004 5:34pm ET | Allen G. Breed and Janet McConnaughey

Posted on 12/16/2004 2:45:25 PM PST by fanfan

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We are not forcing anyone to say, or display Merry Christmas, but I, for one, will not spend money at stores that don't.

I say let their pockets books help them decide whats right.

BTW, Merry Christmas, everyone.

1 posted on 12/16/2004 2:45:26 PM PST by fanfan
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The contempt and outright hatred for Christ and Christians just oozes out of every word of this "report."


2 posted on 12/16/2004 2:49:40 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (It's not evidence of wrongdoing just because Democrats don't like the outcome.)
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Wow. That report lost me on word three. "Ultra Conservative" indeed... PLONK!

APf


3 posted on 12/16/2004 2:51:21 PM PST by APFel (Humanity has a poor track record of predicting its own future.)
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I'm already boycotting Target for their SA Santa Claus banning decision. Ho-ho-hope you have a rotten holiday sales season Target.


4 posted on 12/16/2004 2:51:47 PM PST by wvobiwan (Touchdown! Suckers walk...)
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Barry Lynn shows himself to a bigger chucklehead every time he opens his mouth.
5 posted on 12/16/2004 2:51:56 PM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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""Why not simply require stores owned by Jews to put a gold star in their ads and on their storefronts?" the Rev. Jim Melnyk, associate rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, wrote in a letter to the editor."

The good Reverend is another prime example of the depths the episcopal church has sunk to. I would expect all men of the cloth to support putting Christ back into Christmas.


6 posted on 12/16/2004 2:53:10 PM PST by pissant
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Some ultra-conservative Christian groups around the country are trying to

When was the last time CBS reported on the activities of "ultra-liberal" groups?

7 posted on 12/16/2004 2:53:46 PM PST by ElkGroveDan
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And a Raleigh, N.C., church recently paid $7,600 for a full-page newspaper ad urging Christians to spend their money only with merchants who include the greeting "Merry Christmas" in ads and displays.

Ping

8 posted on 12/16/2004 2:54:41 PM PST by NCjim
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...what they consider political correctness run amok.

Political correctness, by its very nature, is "running amok". There is no acceptable level of political correctness.

9 posted on 12/16/2004 2:55:41 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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It's okay to say Merry Christmas:

"Merry Christmas. Believe It. Say It. Wear it!"

10 posted on 12/16/2004 2:56:29 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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""Why not simply require stores owned by Jews to put a gold star in their ads and on their storefronts?" the Rev. Jim Melnyk, associate rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, wrote in a letter to the editor."

You just gotta love this "reverend" comparing Christians objecting to Christ being obliterated from His own birthday, to the Nazis carrying out their pogrom against the Jews.

11 posted on 12/16/2004 2:57:00 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (It's not evidence of wrongdoing just because Democrats don't like the outcome.)
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To: atomicpossum

He and Maureen Dowd need to marry. Just think how miserably they could be together.....


12 posted on 12/16/2004 2:58:08 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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Barry Lynn shows himself to a bigger chucklehead every time he opens his mouth.

At least the "journalist" didn't refer to him as the Reverend Barry Lynn.

13 posted on 12/16/2004 2:58:38 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (It's not evidence of wrongdoing just because Democrats don't like the outcome.)
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What a vile preacher. I'm guessing his flock is pathetically small.


14 posted on 12/16/2004 3:00:10 PM PST by pissant
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Barry Lynn shows himself to a bigger chucklehead every time he opens his mouth.

Maybe he'll revert back to dust soon.

15 posted on 12/16/2004 3:02:31 PM PST by Freebird Forever (MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!)
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The push from the religious right troubles Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "This mixing of secular and religious symbols ought to be seen as a bad thing, not a good thing, for Christian believers," he says

Hey Barry, where's your critique outlining your 'troubles' with the 9th Circuit deciding that Islam education can be taught in California schools because it's "educational" not religious? You know, "educational" stuff like reciting Koran verses, taking Muslim names for the day, etc. Where's your dedicated concern for the separation of mosque and state?

(crickets chirping)

16 posted on 12/16/2004 3:02:50 PM PST by Lizavetta (Modern liberalism: Where everyone must look different but think the same.)
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What if they don't say anything even remotely holiday related? What if they stick to the "have a nice day" that works the other 11 months of the year?

Being not a chatty person pretty much the only thing a clerk says that I pay even the slightest attention to is how much of my money they want, the rest is immaterial and I am unconcerned.


17 posted on 12/16/2004 3:03:27 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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"Some ultra-conservative Christian groups"

Ohhhhh you're "ultra" conservative if you love the Lord and are just plain ole sick and tired of seeing the meaning of Christmas (you know the birth of Christ!) being diminished year after year in the name of commercialism and political correctness.

18 posted on 12/16/2004 3:04:04 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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In the small southern town where I grew up the Jewish merchants had no problem with having their newspaper ads with Santa Claus and the words Merry Christmas. While the stores didn't have the nativity in them. There were decorations that had Merry Christmas on them. Most of those same merchants had ads that wished their customers Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the Christmas day addition of the paper. Granted they were a very liberal synagogue, but it was never an issue. If the leftists have their way I doubt that most Americans will get all that enthused about buying presents to open around the Yule Log. If Christmas goes a lot of small merchants who depend on the Christmas season for their yearly profit will go out of business.


19 posted on 12/16/2004 3:04:43 PM PST by MKM1960
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Simply demanding, as the communist/socialist democrats always whine, EQUAL TIME!


20 posted on 12/16/2004 3:06:12 PM PST by RetiredArmy (DEMOCRATIC PARTY MOTO: If you can't win fair and square - cheat, steal and lie to do so!)
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