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Old 30 October 2008, 09:42 AM
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Shout Home Depot bans Christmas from its Website
October 27, 2008

Home Depot has it's new holiday Website up and running. You can find many gifts for the holidays. You can even find gifts for Hanukkah. But Christmas? Home Depot's Website hasn't a single reference to Christmas. Not one. At Home Depot, Christmas doesn't exist!

Home Depot has elected to go with the politically correct crowd and censor Christmas, replacing it with holidays.

Please Note: Home Depot may block your message. If so, you can e-mail, write, or call Chairman Frank Blake with the information below.

E-Mail: frank_blake@homedepot.com.
Write 2455 Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA, 30339.
Call 1-800-466-3337, option 3 or 1-800-430-3376.

Thank you for caring enough to get involved.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
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Old 30 October 2008, 09:56 AM
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D'oh!
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Home Depot's Website hasn't a single reference to Christmas. Not one. At Home Depot, Christmas doesn't exist!
A reference to Christmas? Like, having a Christmas Village section? Offering Christmas trees? Selling a "Light and Sound of Christmas" device?

No, you're right, I can't find any of these - what a shame!

Don "Merry Ban-On-Christmas-Email - it's that time of the year" Enrico
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Old 30 October 2008, 10:35 AM
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A reference to Christmas? Like, having a Christmas Village section? Offering Christmas trees? Selling a "Light and Sound of Christmas" device?

No, you're right, I can't find any of these - what a shame!

Don "Merry Ban-On-Christmas-Email - it's that time of the year" Enrico
Wow ah yeah, I'm guessing the quoted person in the OP isn't that great at website searches then?

Slight hijack, I wish we had that store here, it looks good.
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Old 30 October 2008, 11:33 AM
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Roll eyes <- at AFA, not at you, kia
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Wow ah yeah, I'm guessing the quoted person in the OP isn't that great at website searches then?
Both the "Christmas Village" link and the "Christmas trees coming soon" add are directly on the "It's time for the holidays" starting page, which itself is prominently linked on the homedepot.com homepage. Not much skill needed.

I think it's more a case of "not seeing what one doesn't want to see" aka "I won't let get facts in the way of my biased opinion".

Don Enrico
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Old 30 October 2008, 01:53 PM
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Home Depot has it's new holiday Website up and running. You can find many gifts for the holidays. You can even find gifts for Hanukkah. But Christmas? Home Depot's Website hasn't a single reference to Christmas. Not one. At Home Depot, Christmas doesn't exist!

Home Depot has elected to go with the politically correct crowd and censor Christmas, replacing it with holidays.
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I think it's more a case of "not seeing what one doesn't want to see" aka "I won't let get facts in the way of my biased opinion".
I think the opinion is "I hate teh Jews". Asshat. (Since when is it "politically correct" to mention Hanukkah? Am I missing something?)
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Old 30 October 2008, 02:03 PM
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Wow, the nutters are coming out early this year
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Old 30 October 2008, 02:13 PM
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It's not the holidays until the nutjobs start whining about the war on Christmas! Yay! This means I can start listening to Christmas music today!


ETA: Not really. No xmas music until the 1st of December, no matter how early the wackos come out.
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Old 30 October 2008, 02:41 PM
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Uhmmm, doesn't holidays mean Holy Days?
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Old 30 October 2008, 02:56 PM
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Uhmmm, doesn't holidays mean Holy Days?
Yes, but only Xtian holy days count.
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Old 30 October 2008, 03:45 PM
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Both the "Christmas Village" link and the "Christmas trees coming soon" add are directly on the "It's time for the holidays" starting page, which itself is prominently linked on the homedepot.com homepage. Not much skill needed.

I think it's more a case of "not seeing what one doesn't want to see" aka "I won't let get facts in the way of my biased opinion".

Don Enrico
But... but... but...

The starting page says "It's time for the holidays", not "It's time for everyone to worship the Baby Jesus by spending beyond their means!" Don't you know that only Christians can celebrate anything from mid October until January?
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Old 30 October 2008, 03:45 PM
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(Since when is it "politically correct" to mention Hanukkah? Am I missing something?)
Since the damn liberoids decided that people with other religions actually exist.

It's political correctness gone merry, I tells you.
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Old 30 October 2008, 05:07 PM
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Google says:
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Results 1 - 10 of about 2,770 from homedepot.com for christmas.
But...

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Results 1 - 10 of about 290 from homedepot.com for hanukkah.
And sadly...

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Your search - site:homedepot.com kwanzaa - did not match any documents.
Your search - site:homedepot.com eid - did not match any documents.
Christmas even beats out "winter":

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Results 1 - 10 of about 1,720 from homedepot.com for winter.
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Old 30 October 2008, 08:14 PM
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Target has a Christmas section but makes no mention of any other holidays. Are there any Jewish Bill O'Reilly's around?
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Old 30 October 2008, 08:24 PM
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Are there any Jewish Bill O'Reilly's around?
Shmuley Boteach? But he's gotten mellow, so perhaps not anymore.
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Old 30 October 2008, 08:33 PM
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Because nothing says Christmas like spending money. Not like religious stuff at all.

I'm glad I've read one of these, it really is starting to feel christmassy round here now.
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Old 31 October 2008, 05:23 PM
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Is this the same company?
Home Depot begins their day with prayer?
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Old 31 October 2008, 05:26 PM
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I seem to recall almost an identically worded email last year about Lowes. (off to check)

And jimmy101 beat me to my other point.
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Wow, the nutters are coming out early this year

Yep, just like the X-Mas advertising. It starts earlier and earlier each year.
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Old 03 November 2008, 02:03 PM
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American Families (source of the Alert) has posted a retraction of sorts on their website while still taking credit for getting The Home Depot to chenge their evil ways:

As a point of clarification, AFA mistakenly reported the word "Christmas" was totally absent from Home Depot's website. A few product descriptions did, in fact, contain the word "Christmas." We have apologized to Home Depot for the error.
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