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GScheid
Mary's Servant
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 Posted - Nov 03 2008 : 12:39:03 PM
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Home Depot: Hanukkah, yes! Holidays, yes! Christmas, no!
Home Depot bans Christmas from their Website.
UPDATE! Home Depot has contacted AFA and issue the following statement:
Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. As we discussed, The Home Depot has not censored Christmas. The Home Depot has and will continue to include the word "Christmas" in a variety of communication efforts, including advertising, store banners, our Web site and point of purchase displays near such items as Christmas trees.
We also use the word "holiday" in our outreach to customers, as many of our store displays and other marketing efforts cover more than one holiday from Thanksgiving to New Year’s and stay in place throughout the entire holiday season from November through January.
With that said, we are adjusting our Web site to make “Christmas” more prominent and to make our site more aligned with our advertising and point-of-sale in-store signage. Customers will start seeing the adjustments later this week.
Thank you again for your time.
Ron DeFeo
The Home Depot
We have thanked them on your behalf. No further action is requested.
“Everyone needs thirty minutes of personal prayer time each day, unless they are too busy to pray—in which case, they need an hour!”
Saint Francis de Sales
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GScheid
Mary's Servant
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Posted - Nov 03 2008 : 12:40:30 PM
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We also use the word "holiday" in our outreach to customers, as many of our store displays and other marketing efforts cover more than one holiday from Thanksgiving to New Year’s and stay in place throughout the entire holiday season from November through January.
What are the other holidays? And more importantly what are the holidays using wreathes, trees, twinkle lights, guys in white beards and red suits?
Gerry
“Everyone needs thirty minutes of personal prayer time each day, unless they are too busy to pray—in which case, they need an hour!”
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Edited by - GScheid on Nov 03 2008 12:40:56 PM |
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GScheid
Mary's Servant
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2008 : 12:41:46 PM
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Your new Christmas button:
“It’s OK to say Merry Christmas”
Help preserve our tradition of saying “Merry Christmas” by sponsoring Project Merry Christmas in your church.
It's hard to believe that there are companies and individuals who want to ban "Merry Christmas" and replace it with "Holiday Greetings" because, they say, they don't want to offend anyone.
Christians can take a stand and 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. We can do it in a gentle and effective way by wearing the “It’s OK to say Merry Christmas” button.
You can help preserve our tradition of greeting others with a “Merry Christmas” by taking a It's OK to say Merry Christmas !vital leadership role in AFA’s "Project Merry Christmas."
Here's how. AFA is making available an attractive button and Glossy Sticker that carry on our tradition of saying “It's OK to say Merry Christmas."
Purchase enough buttons for each member of your church and enough Glossy Stickers for each family to have one to go on their automobile. Urge your fellow members to wear their buttons and display the Glossy Stickers during the entire Christmas season.
If you are unable to sponsor your church yourself, ask your Sunday School class to make it a class project. You can even order buttons and Glossy Stickers to share with co-workers, children in Christian schools, customers, etc.
Some might think simply wearing a button or displaying a Glossy Sticker is a small thing, but God can use small things to make a big point, and to create opportunities to share the Good News. And what a great time to do that at Christmas!
AFA is asking individuals like you in thousands of communities across the nation to head up this project in their local churches. Your willingness to underwrite the cost for your church and enthusiastically promote this project is the key to making an impact in your area.
Click Here to Order
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Chairman
American Family Association
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