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Corporate Christmas
It is that merry time of year again when Bill O’Reilly and Jerry Falwell scream persecution from the secularists...based upon the semantics of the retail sector, or lack thereof.. The Christmas word...that is.
Does all this screaming at the retail sector mean that they are anti-capitalism? (We know they are not socialists.) So by deduction that only leaves a few isms hanging around that might suit them: Fascism or Authoritarianism. And come to think of it isn’t “Corporate Christmas” a malapropism?
From Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Making A List And Checking It Twice: Falwell Knows Who’s Naughty And Nice
It has come to this: So desperate is the Religious Right to prop up its claims of a “War on Christmas” that it is actually trolling retailers’ Web sites and blowing the whistle on those that fail to use religiously correct terminology.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s legal outfit, Liberty Counsel, has actually issued a list of companies it deems “Naughty” or “Nice” depending on the firms’ use of the word “Christmas.” (No, this is not a parody from “The Onion.”)
The list is quite illuminating.
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