More from the trenches in the war on Christmas....

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/

Jennifer Giroux, the "Bracelets for Baby Jesus" lady whom we last discussed on Friday. Now even BBC News <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4512156.stm> has heard of her and her "group" (by which I suppose they mean the nine children, the youngest only five, who work in her "Just Say Merry Christmas" sweat shop).

Her group has tapped into a current craze for rubberised wristbands, producing a green and red version emblazoned with the slogan "Just say 'merry Christmas'".

What began as a local campaign has swiftly mushroomed.

She has already sold 15,000 bracelets at $2 each. A further 43,000 are on their way to customers.

"We just wanted to encourage Christians to have the courage to say 'merry Christmas' instead of 'happy holidays'," she says.

"We had no idea that it would tap into a national frustration.

"People are tired of being told not to celebrate Christmas, they are tired of the ACLU. This is just parents saying they want to preserve Christ in Christmas."

Yeah, this is all for the children. (You will recall that WorldNetDaily reported, "The bracelets are not a moneymaker for the Girouxs whose goal is to reclaim Christmas and its meaning.")

But colored rubber bands can't cost $2 each (commenter Bea, who says that she's in the promotions business, indicated that similar bracelets "start at $.50 with a minimum of 500". And labor costs for the Girouxs shouldn't be too high, since they're using their nine children, plus some nieces and nephews (and probably some kids from a local orphanage whom they invited to a "special Christmas activity") to fill the orders for the bracelets. So, if the BBC's cited sale figures for the bracelets are correct, it would appear that the Giroux have made close to $87,000 from their plan to save Christmas.

Baby Jesus must be so happy.

mustn't he?

:sarcasm:

I have to think of some way to fleece these idiots the next time one of these fake wars on something rolls around.

I really need the money, too.

for a buck bunch.

at $2 a whack, with 15,000 sold now and 43,000 slated for sale this week. That's $104,000 of Xmas Cheer before the Yule Log's lit. Probably had them manufactured in China for less than 15¢ each, shipping included.

Baby Jesus certainly must be happy for Jenni. . .

Let's quit beating around the bush on this issue and call these people what they are.

and remind her that for the Founding Fathers this was not even close to a Christain Holiday, for god sakes Congress met on Christmas day all teh way to 1901

I should have thought of that. I think all those bracelets are stupid

like so many other wingnuts whose churches will be CLOSED, to count their money.

1 - is this legal? - "And labor costs for the Girouxs shouldn't be too high, since they're using their nine children, plus some nieces and nephews" I suppose this shouldn't surprise me much, but... yuk.

2 - why the hell is the ACLU being blamed for everything? Do people not know that the ACLU has stood up for more people's rights for religious expression than they've ever fought? This pisses me off - you know it's a sad attempt to discredit an agency that actually stands up for the very people that hate it.

ya gotta like their unprejudiced approach to what they defend. Limbaugh should know!

That and us liberals. Never mind the ACLU has helped Jerry Falwell and Rush Limbaugh when they're in trouble but still continue to bash them. If it wasn't for good people like at the ACLU who knows what these people could get away with. They always forget the second commandment from Jesus: love thy neighbor as thy self. I thought child laboring was against the law??

Selfish people. Whatever happened to manners?? I'm a Christian and I've never been "persecuted" for being a Christian. If I've been "persecuted" for anything it's for being a liberal by so-called other Christian's. If these people want real persecution read the NT about how apostles were jailed for their speech, beheaded, stoned, whipped etc. None of that is happening to them.

She's really observing the Season of Greed in all its avaricious glory. Now, I read somewhere that avarice is a deadly sin. Hmmmmmmm.