Conservative religious freedom group says more businesses are including Christmas in advertising
If Santa is making his list and checking it twice, he may be surprised to find that for the first time since 2005, more American corporations are celebrating Christmas as a part of their seasonal marketing and ad campaigns.
The conservative religious freedom group Liberty Counsel released its annual “Naughty and Nice” list last week, putting businesses in the “naughty” or “nice” column based on whether Christmas is included in advertising and in-store displays.
“There’s far more on the nice side than the naughty side,” Mathew Staver, founder and president of the counsel, told CNSNews.com
Staver said that his organization began its Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign seven years ago to support Christmas and fight its censorship in the public square. Then in 2005, a year Staver said seemed to represent the pinnacle of anti-Christmas sentiment, a spruce bound from Canada to Boston inspired the first “Naughty and Nice” list...
... That year stores like Wal-Mart, Sears and K-Mart made the “naughty” list for forbidding their employees to wish customers “Merry Christmas” and using the label “holiday” in stores to describe Christmas merchandise ranging from trees to decorations.
But since then, Staver said the trend has been that more and more businesses have been putting Christmas back into their seasonal promotions and moving from the counsel’s “naughty” to its “nice list” – including Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Sears.
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The conservative religious freedom group Liberty Counsel released its annual “Naughty and Nice” list last week, putting businesses in the “naughty” or “nice” column based on whether Christmas is included in advertising and in-store displays.
“There’s far more on the nice side than the naughty side,” Mathew Staver, founder and president of the counsel, told CNSNews.com
Staver said that his organization began its Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign seven years ago to support Christmas and fight its censorship in the public square. Then in 2005, a year Staver said seemed to represent the pinnacle of anti-Christmas sentiment, a spruce bound from Canada to Boston inspired the first “Naughty and Nice” list...
... That year stores like Wal-Mart, Sears and K-Mart made the “naughty” list for forbidding their employees to wish customers “Merry Christmas” and using the label “holiday” in stores to describe Christmas merchandise ranging from trees to decorations.
But since then, Staver said the trend has been that more and more businesses have been putting Christmas back into their seasonal promotions and moving from the counsel’s “naughty” to its “nice list” – including Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Sears.