Friday, November 23, 2007
'Tis the Season
I guess this kicks off another politically correct Christmas (not "holiday") season and the subsequent controversies...
Randy Hall reports at CNSNews.com:
"'We are apologizing to customers today for any confusion our holiday catalog created,' Rich said. She explained that the full-color document is called a holiday catalog 'because it encompasses all the holidays from October through January.'
Rich's comments came in response to an 'Action Alert' sent out earlier in the day by the Mississippi-based American Family Association. The e-mail stated: 'In an effort to avoid the use of the term 'Christmas tree,' Lowe's [is] now calling them 'family trees.'"
'In their Holiday 2007 catalog, containing 56 pages of Christmas gifts, Lowe's advertises hundreds of gift items, including scores of 'family trees,'" the message continued. "In fact, the word 'Christmas' only appears two times in the entire holiday catalog."
