Liberty Counsel Launches ‘Friend or Foe’ Christmas Campaign
By Allie Martin and Jody Brown, OneNewsNow.com The fifth annual campaign is part of an effort by Liberty Counsel and other pro-family groups to defend attacks on Christmas celebrations. As part of the campaign, Liberty Counsel will publish a “naughty and nice” list, which lists retailers who either censor or celebrate Christmas. Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver says the premise is simple.
“Our theme is that we will be the friend of those entities that do not censor Christmas, and a foe of those that do. We will educate and, if necessary, litigate to make sure that Christmas is not censored from either the public square or from the private retail market,” he says.
Staver says the campaign has been successful in the past, having put several “grinches” on the run. He cited an issue with a major toy retailer that censored Christmas from one of their stores. Liberty Counsel then put the retailer on the “naughty list,” but was immediately contacted by the company and told it would indeed reverse that store policy. The retailer claimed the incident was an isolated event and not reflective of the nationwide chain.
Among the “absurd, but true” examples of what the attorney describes as “the war against Christmas” have been the renaming of a Christmas tree to a “holiday tree,” stopping students from wearing red and green, and censoring religious Christmas carols. In a press release, Liberty Counsel notes that the “naughtiest stores” on its list year were Best Buy and Eddie Bauer, which refused to recognize Christmas because it did not want to be “disrespectful” or “offensive.”
Liberty Counsel also offers a “Help Save Christmas” action pack, which has educational legal information to educate government officials, teachers, parents, students, private businesses and employees.
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)
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