Hey Dr. Dobson, you might wanna shine your boycottin’ shoes. Remember when your magazine supported this campaign?

“Merry Christmas” once appeared in store windows and on the balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades. But many stores and other businesses have long since stopped offering such greetings to their shoppers, even in their advertising. Instead, they serve up an all-inclusive stew of generic slogans, as if Christmas itself is no big deal.

If you’re tired of hearing “happy holidays” and “season’s greetings” instead, Manuel Zamorano has a campaign for you.

He’s leading a nationwide boycott of Federated Department Stores, the company that owns Macy’s, over its exclusion of the word “Christmas” in advertisements and window displays.

Well, it looks like your new best friend, the one whose only qualification for the Supreme Court is being a fundamentalist Christian, is one of those God-hating secularists.(via The Carpetbagger Report)

I worked with Miers at the White House. Though my interaction with her was limited, since I was merely a Presidential Writer and she was the Staff Secretary, I had a unique experience with her. In 2001, I was given the task of writing the President’s Christmas message to the nation. After researching Reagan, Bush, and Clinton’s previous Christmas messages, I wrote something that was well within the bounds of what had been previously written (and in case you are wondering, Clinton’s messages were far more evangelical than the elder Bush’s).

The director of correspondence and the deputy of correspondence edited and approved the message and it was sent to the Staff Secretary’s office for the final vetting. Miers emailed me and told me that the message might offend people of other faiths, i.e., that the message was too Christian. She wanted me to change it.
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Some will probably write that incident off as an insignificant, almost meaningless, occurrence. And perhaps it is. But Miers purposefully sought to dilute the Christianity of the message, thus revealing to me at least a willingness to compromise unnecessarily without outside pressure.

If Dr. Dobson and his ilk want to be intellectually consistent, they should go with their persecution complex and oppose Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.