Employees are Target have been instructed not to mention Christmas. No Christmas signs. No Christmas music. No greeting customers with "Merry Christmas." Instead, they can say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays." You see, they don't want to offend anybody. They want to be inclusive of all traditions, including those who would rather have a twig of holly stuck in their eye than wish someone "Merry Christmas."
We shop at Target quite often, and we are not going to boycott Target.
Instead we are going to pick up the slack. When I take my little boys to Target, we are going to wish every person we see a "Merry Christmas." Every customer, every employee, the police man by the door, and the checkout clerk. Then we will page the manager so that we can wish him a Merry Christmas, too. We may even sing a few choruses of "Away in a Manger" or "Joy to the World." If the security guard asks us to leave, we'll wish him a Merry Christmas too.
And to all you readers of this blog: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Monday, December 12, 2005
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Merry Christmas to you too. I whole heartedly agree with you. I am a public high school teacher and we have had been working under similar rules for years now. we do put up a winter solestice tree and decorate it with instruments. I too wish all a Merry Christmas each day. Wallmart is doing the same thing. We don't shop there anyway.
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