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December Dilemma Watch 2007
The Catholic League’s Naughty List
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hrossi
The Catholic League, a group that is famously active in the annual holiday culture wars, has released a list of early offenders in what League president Bill Donohue calls efforts “to censor Christmas.” Among those he lists are: — The Los Angeles City Council, which renamed the annual “Hollywood Christmas Parade” the “Hollywood Santa Parade”…
The AFA’s Naughty List: Kohl’s and the Gap
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hrossi
The conservative group American Family Association also is continuing to call out companies that it believes are undermining the public celebration of Christmas. A recent action alert has urged members to write to the department store chain Kohl’s for “taking a misleading, in-your-face attitude when it comes to Christmas.” Specifically, the group alleges that Kohl’s…
Ho, Ho, No!
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hrossi
Santas across Australia have thrown their jolliness by the wayside in protest of a new instruction that they say “ha, ha, ha” instead of the traditional “ho, ho, ho.” According to The Daily Telegraph, Santa is “a rebel with a ‘claus.'” Westaff, a Santa training agency that supplies Santas to hundreds of stores across Australia,…
Threats Close Down Kwanzaa
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hrossi
In an episode that Bangor, Maine residents are calling “chilling,” the town’s celebration of Kwanzaa has been canceled after threats of violence were made against the area’s African-Americans. A 75-year-old man, who is currently at large, has threatened repeatedly to shoot members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a…
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