The Christmas Cause 15 December 2004 The political season is over; long live the political season! With yard signs -- "We Believe in God. Merry Christmas." -- and expensive church advertising campaigns directing the faithful to shop only in stores that say "Merry Christmas." Rev. Patrick Wooden Sr., pastor of the Raleigh church that paid $7,600 for a full-page ad urging the "secular-shop" boycott, explained, "'We're not going to allow the country to continue this downward spiral to the left.'" The California Committee to Save Merry Christmas, which has organized a boycott of Macy's and its parent company, cited November's presidential election as proof that "'political correctness is offending millions of Americans.'" And John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, said businesses and schools secularizing Christmas was the last straw for Christians. In response, the institute reissued its "12 Rules of Christmas" guide to properly celebrating Jesus' birth, and maintaining the holy spirit "of, what, peace and freedom, and fun." Not whatever it is secular people think of, when they think of Christmas.
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