Lowe’s Apologizes for ‘Family Trees’ in Christmas Catalog
(CNSNews.com) - An early skirmish in this year’s “War on Christmas” ended on Tuesday when the nationwide home improvement chain 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 Home 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.”
Honestly, I don’t know who comes out of this looking more ignorant and willing to pander to a hyper-sensitive vocal minorities of brain-dead trolls. The American Family Association, which is the very embodiment of brain-dead, reactionary Christian Conservatism, apparently has their collective panties in a wad over a corporation’s attempt to be inclusive. Lowe’s, in trying to be all things to all people, ends up being nothing to anybody. “Family trees”?? WTF? Is there anything sillier and more indicative of fear-based pandering that “family trees”?
When last I checked, the holiday was still referred to as “Christmas”, and the trees used to celebrate the season were still referred to as “Christmas trees”. That’s not an ideological or moral statement, merely a statement of fact. When and why this whole faux controversy sprang to life escapes me, but this silliness has gone on far too long. At it’s most basic, the whole “War on Christmas” charade seems to have been invented out of whole cloth by closet DUMB@$$ Bill O’Reilly, who apparently feels that not nearly enough people are paying attention to him. Lookit me! Lookit me!! I’m defending all that’s good and holy!!
OK, y’all…there is no “War on Christmas”. All of us celebrate it differently. For some of us it’s about the swag, for others it’s about the birth of their Lord and Savior. For still others, it’s about the Christmas Day bowl games. That doesn’t make any of us “wrong” or guilty of warring against Christmas; it just means that the holiday, by whatever name, holds difference significance for different people. In this free country, this is something that each of us are free to do. If someone tells you that you’re doing it wrong, you’re free to tell them to kiss your @$$…and you should.
Rumor has it that the season is about “peace on Earth” and “good will towards men”…whatever the Hell that gibberish means. Both Lowe’s and the American Family Association should be given a time-out and sent to bed without dinner…’cuz it doesn’t get much sillier than this, does it?
Now can we please talk about something that actually matters??
