December Dilemma Watch 2007

December Dilemma Watch 2007

Where the Dickens is Christmas?

posted by hrossi | 12:15pm Wednesday November 28, 2007

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 not mean that other Christmas-related aspects of the festival will be secularized. “The spirit of the event has not changed,” he said. “We have the live Nativity, the lighted Christmas parade, the community Christmas sing. It was simply that on one piece of marketing material we had the use the word ‘holiday.’”



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posted 10:23:43am Dec. 24, 2007 | read full post »

No Christ in Christmas? Impossible!
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posted 10:58:44am Dec. 21, 2007 | read full post »

Not Until His Birthday, Please
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posted 10:30:24am Dec. 21, 2007 | read full post »

The Vatican's Nativity Switch
According to Catholic World News, the Vatican has changed its tradition of erecting a Nativity scene of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in a manger in Bethlehem, instead putting up a scene of the holy family in their home in Nazareth. The Vatican has put up a creche since Pope John Paul II instituted the t

posted 10:00:08am Dec. 21, 2007 | read full post »

Mike Huckabee's Christmas Message
Gov. Mike Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist preacher who continues to rise in the Republican presidential primary polls, has a new ad out that aims directly for the pro-Christmas set. People shouldn't be bombarded during this time of year with political ads, Huckabee says while wearing a red

posted 10:35:00am Dec. 19, 2007 | read full post »

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Joey

posted November 29, 2007 at 5:24 pm


Two things that seem ridiculous:
1.) That they can’t use the word “Christmas” if they advertise in a school, and
2.) That they can advertise in a school for an event with a Nativity, as long as they don’t use the word “Christmas.”
God bless.



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Paul

posted November 29, 2007 at 5:50 pm


Seperatimg Dickens & Christmas is silly. His best (IMHO) work id A Christmas Carol. Sounds like Scrooge pre Christmas eve has taken over ,



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RMR

posted December 14, 2007 at 4:36 pm


Sounds like a New World Order ploy.



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