This Christmas, Don’t Shop at Stores Funding Planned Parenthood

It happens every year about this time—scores of Christians start boycotting stores who have replaced “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays.” This year it strikes me as a somewhat hypocritical act for many of the people who will respond to these lists with ire.

Of course I say “Christmas,” and I appreciate when places do, and I appreciate lists that tell us which places have made an effort to do so, but I don’t really expect them to say it. Really, it’s pretty demanding of me to expect the Muslim-owned franchise to tell me to celebrate Christ—they just better not insult Him, you know? This is the other side of freedom of religion—allowing everyone to practice theirs but not infringe on mine. Really, it doesn’t matter that much to me what words a non-believer says as long as they conduct ethical and honest business and do what they say they will deliver. American businesses don’t have national contracts with the church, though I am right there smiling when a random secular business employee tells me “Merry Christmas.”