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Partners: The VDARE War Against Christmas Campaign Since 2000, VDARE.com has offered what they call a "War against Christmas" campaign, which is where it is rumored that the "War against Christmas" phrase was coined. They expose inane abolishments of Christmas from across the U.S.A. and Canada, hoping to convince the public arena that it's time to start fighting back against the secular anti-Christmas forces. A 2005 Campaign has just begun as of December 7, 2005. |
American Family Association Pro-Christmas Efforts The national association associated with promoting traditional family and Christian values is standing up for Christmas this year. It plans to hold a boycott of the Target corporation due to their ignorance toward Christmas, and has issued a list of corporations that ban Christmas, and a FAQ section about this list. The AFA is notorious for such activities as attempting to remove television indecency, and illegalizing gay marriage. |
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Bill O'Reilly of FOX News Bill O'Reilly is one of the most famous individuals that is dedicated to eradicating the War on Christmas, and dedicated alot of his time on The O'Reilly Factor doing so. Recently, he has exposed organizations that ban saying Christmas, and has spoken both with those who oppose and those who endorse the mention of Christmas in the public square. |
John Gibson of FOX News John Gibson is a FOX News personality that hosts the Big Story with John Gibson. Gibson has also published a book titled The War on Christmas, which documents everything this Angelfire page is devoted to. |
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WorldNetDaily WorldNet Daily.com is a website devoted to traditionalist and Christian ways of life in America, and documents all the ridiculous campaigns against Christianity and traditionalism across the country. Recently, it documented how 'Silent Night' was altered to fit a secular view. |
GrinchList The GrinchList is a website that is devoted to the encouragement of Christmas in the public square. It began in 2003, and had a campaign in 2004 but has not yet announced a 2005 run. It documented the Capitol Holiday Tree (Now renamed Christmas tree) and other ridiculous attempts at abolishing Christmas. |
Christmas is winning this year! Target joins the pro-Christmas bandwagon
(8 December, 2005) - This Christmas season is beginning to look like none we have seen in years. Finally, corporations seem to be listening to what Christians have to say across the country. It's finally settling in for them that 80% of Americans are Christian and 96% of Americans celebrate Christmas. No one celebrates "holiday". As recently as December 3, corporations including Target, Sears, K-Mart, MSN Shopping, The Bombay Company, Macy*s, and Lowe's have all begun to incorporate the word Christmas in their advertising, not only on their websites but in their retail stores and in their television ads. Comparing websites to their cached versions from Google, I noted that the word 'holiday' had been replaced with 'Christmas' seven times from various corporations. This includes Bombay, which at one time advertised "All Holiday 40% off" with a Nativity set in the background. It now reads "All Christmas Decor 40% off". It is believed that these companies are re-incorporating Christmas into their advertising because of a recent onslaught of pro-Christmas boycotts against various organizations including Sears and Target. Target has yet to release the word Christmas into any of their advertising anywhere, yet is beying boycotted by the American Family Association with over 2,000,000 signed signatures at this time. There is a bad side however, I recently noted that compared to 2002's Christmas season, the phrases "This holiday" and "the holiday" are being used 10 times more in 2005, the phrases are also being used 5 times more than 2004. Retailers are dropping the "season" suffix in an attempt to rename Christmas to "holiday". A new greeting is also being used widely instead of "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings", it's "Have a great holiday". On a final note, most corporations still refer to the Christmas time frame as "holiday season", and refer to gift guides and entertaining and food guides as "holiday", but it's now becoming popular for "Christmas", not "holiday", to be once again paired with "decorations" and "tree".