American Family Association kicks off the Annual War on Christmas (tm) with boycott on PetSmart

[ck4829]

Last week, the American Family Association kicked off the “War on Christmas” season with the release of its annual “Naughty or Nice” list rating major retailers on whether their holiday advertising uses the word “Christmas.”

Today, the AFA announced the company that it would be picking on especially this Christmas season, urging members to abide by a “limited one-month boycott” of the pet supply store PetSmart because of “the company’s censorship of the word ‘Christmas.’”

At PetSmart, you'll find a "Holiday Shop," a "holiday" wish list and plenty of "holiday" items, but you won't find "Christmas."

Ironically, PetSmart had no problem with saying Halloween though. They promoted their "Halloween Shop" very heavily for weeks in October. So why are they so afraid of Christmas?

Until PetSmart proves it recognizes Christmas by using it in their newspaper, radio and television advertising or in-store signage, the boycott will be promoted throughout this Christmas season.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-kicks-war-christmas-season-petsmart-boycott

[leftofcool]

1. Oh for fuck's sake!

As though your pet goes shopping for xmas presents.

[yellowcanine]

4. My dog refuses to say "Merry Christmas" so I think he must be an atheistic secular humanist.

[joeybee12]

2. Someone remind me to stop by PetSmart tonight

And spend a lot of money there.

[RebelOne]

5. There is a PetSmart practically around the corner from my house.

I'll go there tomorrow.

[joeybee12]

6. Good...

With 9 cats, I always end up spending a fortune!

[yeoman6987]

3. Merry Christmas everyone!

Another year of war.

[spanone]

7. hey afa....unhappy holidays

[Archae]

8. The AFA "boycotts..."

Have the same effect as a fart in a hurricane.

But they make so much noise about their farts in the hurricane, our news media pays at least some attention to them.

Most of us just laugh at the AFA and their theocratic ditwits.

[GreatGazoo]

9. Holiday = "holy day" eg. one specific day, not Thanksgiving eve, not November 18th.

Jesus was likely born on June 17th of 2 B.C. but that doesn't seem to matter any more to these people than his stance on buying lots of material possessions.

Also, did Petco pay them off ? How did they escape this bogus boycott:

http://www.petco.com/N_10611/Holiday-Checklist-Shop.aspx

[MohRokTah]

10. They take their silliness to the most ridiculous levels. eom

[Initech]

11. Here we go again!

[pstokely]

12. they used to wait until after Thanksgiving to begin a boycott

nt

[Wella]

13. Yeah, but Christmas starts in September now

even August in some places.