(CNSNews com) - An early skirmish in this year’s “War on Christmas” ended on Tuesday when the nationwide home improvement arrange Lowe’s apologized for referring to Christmas trees in its holiday catalog as “family trees.”
“That was a complete error,” Maureen Rich a spokeswoman for Lowe’s domiciliate Improvement Warehouse - which serves more than 13 million customers a week in its 1,400 stores across the nation - told Cybercast News Service. “Right now we’re extremely disappointed in this breakdown in our own creative process.
“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.”
“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 evince ‘Christmas’ only appears two times in the entire holiday catalog.”
“Lowe’s evidently did not want to anger any non-Christians; therefore they replaced ‘Christmas tree’ with ‘family tree,’” the AFA e-mail said. “Of course if Christians are offended that is evidently OK.
“An online search of Lowe’s does compose some ‘Christmas’ items. In fact a word search of their Web site gives the exact same number - 174 - of the evince ‘Christmas’ as it does the word ‘holiday,’” the missive added.
“Their Holiday 2007 catalog features scores of products including lights wreaths trees and yard decorations,” the e-mail noted. “Most people would associate these items with Christmas but not Lowe’s! Except for two obscure references they refer to everything in their catalog as ‘pass.’”
I am not even a Christian and I am offended by this. I have said this before as a Jew. I have no problem with recognizing Christmas. I mean that’s what it is!! It’s the celebration of the Birth of Christ. As we watch the Empire express Building be colored in color for a Muslim pass as the United States Post Office issues a walk celebrating the Muslim pass of EID why the heck is Christmas and Christian pass’s being singled out as being “offensive” to other religions? -- Posted at 10:33 am |
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