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In Saginaw, Michigan this week, the annual Dickens Christmas Festival was re-named the Dickens Holiday Festival. The name change came because festival organizers face a dwindling advertising budget, and removing “Christmas” from the name allows them to advertise in public schools. Downtown Development board member Kriss Roethleisberger told WNEM News that the new nomenclature does…

A school board near Pensacola, Florida found itself embroiled in a debate over what to call the vacation that students get between December 22 and January 2. In a 2008-2009 school year calendar that was up for approval by the board, the period was listed as “Winter Break,” upsetting several members of the board. The…

The American Family Association is sponsoring a program to make sure that “Merry Christmas” doesn’t disappear from the American lexicon this December. “Project Merry Christmas” invites churches to “proclaim to our communities that Christmas is not just a winter holiday focused on materialism, but a ‘holy day’ when we celebrate the birth of our Savior.”…

Lowes, the hardware mega-store, made an early December Dilemma appearance when its Holiday 2007 catalog advertised “Family Trees,” not “Christmas Trees.” The American Family Association, a conservative Christian organization, sent out an action alert to its members, prompting Lowes to email the chain en masse, and ask why the term “Christmas” is not used to…
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