Liberty Counsel Renews "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign"

Liberty Counsel, a legal advocacy group, announced yesterday that it is launching its sixth annual "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign." The campaign includes distribution of legal memoranda defending public references to Christmas and its celebration in the workplace. (Memo on Public Christmas Celebrations; Memo on Celebrating Christmas in the Workplace). The campaign, which provides "free assistance to those facing persecution for celebrating Christmas," focuses on situations such as use in retail ads of "holiday" instead of "Christmas", renaming of Christmas trees as "holiday trees", exclusion of religious Christmas carols in schools and bans on religious decorations in public places. Its "Naughty and Nice List" names retailers that specifically refer to Christmas and those that instead use more generic terms in their advertising, on their websites and in their stores.