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• AFA Tea Party T-Shirt? Patriotically Made with Cheap Haitian Labor

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  The fundamentalist Christian American Family Association is a hairtrigger organization, calling boycotts against companies for the moral outrage of not using the word “Christmas” in advertising, even when, um, they actually do use the word . The same AFA is calling for Americans to summon up their patriotic ...
  3 days ago

• How Does the American Family Assocation Affect Your Holiday Shopping?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 703
  The American Family Association says were allowed to shop at Gap Inc. again, lifting its temporary boycott of the retailer (and its Old Navy and Banana Republic brands) for not being gung-ho enough about Christmas. Thats because the boycott was "successful"; they know this because Old Navy ran a "Merry Christmas" ad. ...
  5 days ago

• The AFA Turns on Huckabee

  
  Right Wing Watch — Authority: 643
  Mike Huckabee is already receiving unrelenting criticism from conservatives for granting clemency to Maurice Clemmons back when he was Governor of Arkansas.  Now it appears as if even the American Family Association has turned against him, judging by this blog post from AFAs Bryan Fischer :  If a public ...
  6 days ago

• Religious Shadow Falls on Best Buy and Gap’s Holiday Campaigns

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  Religions and religious bodies seem to be becoming all prevalent and omnipresent once again. It is unbelievable that Best Buy should get flak for greeting US Muslims Happy Eid on 27th Nov and Gap should inform AFA (American Family Association) about its holiday campaign. Times are changing but this religious ...
  1 week ago

• AFA Declares Boycott of American Family Association for War on Christmas

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ottoman Upton November 25, 2009 It’s a War On Christmas! AFA calls for Christmas boycott of American Family Association Store “When will bSecure advertisements for American Family Filter start mentioning Christmas?” The Armchair Furniture Association (AFA) is ...
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• The Gap’s ‘Happy Whatever-you-wannukah’ ad reignites ‘War on Christmas’ debate

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 530
  Cathy Lynn Grossman writes at USA Today : "Religion writers, bloggers and assorted pop-culture watchers this year are seizing on the new holiday ad from trendy clothing store The Gap as evidence that holiday inclusiveness has officially gone too far."
  2 weeks ago

• Weekend Reads

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 118
  I had a very rough week this past week. I spent about a week and half on a paper and then realized I did it entirely wrong, urgh . So I am now having to start over and redo the entire thing, so in actuality I wasted about 10days that I could have spent on sometime productive. Oh well, I did learn quite a bit about ...
  2 weeks ago

• War on Christmas comes to Minnesota

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 654
  "Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanza..." The Gaps 2009 holiday ad. Source: YouTube The religious right’s annual “War on Christmas” is ramping up early this year, and at least one Minnesota-based company is on its hit list. For the past few years, the American Family Association has targeted retail ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Morning Meme (Thursday, November 19, 2009)

  
  AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters — Authority: 647
  Proving that NBC hates viewers of anything that has a script, theyve chosen to move the date of the Emmy Awards, which they get to host in 2010, into August so they dont lose out on any football...
  2 weeks ago

• American Family Association Sweat the Sm…

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 143
  American Family Association Sweat the Small Stuffyou’d think that the wingnutty American Family Association (AFA) would have more important things to worry about the Gap clthing store’s attitude to Christmas;Christmas is special because of Jesus. It’s not just a “winter holiday.” For millions of Americans ...
  2 weeks ago

• Puerto Ricos Brutal Gay Decapitation … Canadas Supremes to Rule on Polygamy?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 703
  ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. → Nineteen-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, was murdered Saturday in Puerto Rico. He was found "partially burned, decapitated, and dismembered, both arms, both legs, and the torso." According to iReporter Christopher Pagan , "The police ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gap Holiday Ad Causes Religious Controversy

  
  StyleList Fashion Blog — Authority: 155
  Filed under: News , Designers & Brands Well, bah humbug. Earlier today we reported that Gap had turned to "Glee" for inspiration for its new "Holiday Cheer" ad campaign , which features the tagline "Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanzaa, Go Solstice" in its inclusive "Happy Whateveryouwannakah" ad. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Reason To Rejoice

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 667
  There’s another reason to rejoice over the LDS Church’s historic support for pro-LGBT legislation in Salt Lake City: it’s causing all sorts of angst among anti-gay extremists. The right-wing group America Forever , whose fundraising ventures included selling worthless ID’s to Mexican immigrants , is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christian Groups Call for Boycott of Retailers Censoring Christmas

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 530
  LifeSiteNews : "With the Christmas season fast approaching, and the commercial machine gearing up as usual, the annual war on Christmas has started, with numerous stores refusing to recognize the very celebration by which they profit. In response, Christian groups are again calling for a boycott of such stores who ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mind The Gap [The Grinch]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  The American Family Association is not amused at The Gap for adding greetings like "Happy Whateveryouwannukah" and "Mo Mistletoe" to its holiday ad campaign , which they claim "censors" Christmas. [ Brandweek ]
  3 weeks ago

• War on Christmas piffle

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  The American Family Association is calling for a boycott of The Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy because they don’t like these companies’ holiday ads — AFA insists that these companies must use the word “Christmas” in their holiday ads. I’ll be making a special effort to spend money at these stores ...
  3 weeks ago

• AFA: No more Muslims in the military

  
  A True Believer's Blog — Authority: 416
  Hat tip to Polycarp at The Church of Jesus Christ . I have to disagree with Polycarp, though, in his assessment of the AFA’s position, stated here by Director of Issues Analysis Bryan Fischer. Polycarp said of this piece that it’s “stupid.” It’s worse than stupid. Stupid is when you can’t tell the ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Right-Wing Talkers Crassly Exploited Ft. Hood Tragedy

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Barack Obama , Religion , Deep Background , Conservatives On Tuesday morning I accidentally had the chance to listen to Chris Plante, a Rush-wannabe radio talk-show host who appears on a D.C. station. He was going on and on about how the Fort Hood shootings have driven the nation apart. An agitated ...
  3 weeks ago

• AFA’s Bryan Fischer Proposes Sectarian Cleansing of US Military

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 667
  AFAs Bryan Fischer speaking at the 2009 Value Voters Summit This is shocking even by usual American Family Association “standards.”  Here’s what the AFA’s Bryan Fischer is saying : It it is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: ...
  3 weeks ago

• American Family Association Advocates Banning Muslims from Military

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 558
  Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association has a blog, and on that blog they’re advocating: No More Muslims in the U.S. Military . The author, Bryan Fischer, AFA’s “Director of Issues Analysis,” seems to believe he’s in a religious war between Christianity and Islam. To Fischer, all Muslims are ...
  3 weeks ago

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