Tag Archives: Xmas

Auckland, New Zealand’s St Matthew-in-the-City church has unveiled another billboard in its controversial series. St Matthew’s clergy Rev Glynn Cardy and Rev Clay Nelson said the billboard invites discussion and debate. “Some scholars have tried to make the case that he might have been gay,” said Nelson. “But it is all conjecture. Maybe gay, maybe not. Does it matter?” Cardy …

“For our troops in the Middle East, it’s not away in a manger — it’s away goes the manger! After years of celebrating Christmas with a live nativity, the U.S. Navy is ordering military families to tear down its display on a Bahrain base. Service members were stunned. The news was most upsetting for the kids, who look forward to …

Will you split your holiday between your biological family and what Amistead Maupin calls your “logical family?” How’s that going to work?

It’s a fragrance-spritzing jihad on the Baby Jesus!

The first clip is by JMG reader Rob. More here.

Directed by Boy George and Dean Stockings.

God, our nation is flooded with sin and debauchery. (Just quoting the Family Research Counsel, who will surely have conniptions about this.) More on today’s ceremony can be found here. (Tipped by JMG reader Ed)

It’s a hunky hairy hipster holiday! Free download.

One of the few Xmas tunes I can tolerate, done up with toy instruments and surprise back-up singers. (Via Towleroad)

In a holiday piece written for Business Review, Richard Fausta recommends that companies keep Christmas music and Christianity-themed decorations to a minimum because there will likely be people of other faiths in the office.  Pretty standard advice, right? Not according to Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue. I asked our vice president about this. We can’t relate to that, Bernadette Brady …

Two of the members of the popular acapella group Pentatonix are openly gay, including the lead vocalist on their new holiday track, which already has over one million views on YouTube.  The group has also recorded a PSA for the Trevor Project.

Following up on last week’s “Naughty Or Nice” list of retailers who do or do not used the word “Christmas” in their advertising, today the American Family Association launched a boycott of those Satanists at all three GAP chains. But as Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper again pointed out today, the AFA continues to ignore the pesky fact that …

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Today the American Family Association issued its annual boycott list of companies that are “against Christmas” because they use the word “holiday” in their advertising. On the naughty list: Banana Republic, Barnes & Noble, Family Dollar, Foot Locker, Gap Stores, L.L. Bean, Limited Brands, Maurice’s, Office Depot, Old Navy, Radio Shack, Staples, Supervalue, and Victoria’s Secret. Oh, but what’s that …