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A Christian Grassroots Volunteer Organization Has Retained TransMedia Group for a One-Month Publicity Campaign to Help 'Keep Christ In Christmas'
12/3/2007
TransMedia Group said it will
help a volunteer organization called "Keep Christ In Christmas" to do just
that by publicizing Nativity scenes in public squares and magnetic bumper
stickers depicting the birth of Jesus.
"I suppose you could definitely call it a 'pro bono' project," said
TransMedia Group's Founder and Chairman Tom Madden. "They knocked on our
door and it just opened to them."
The original committee to Keep Christ In Christmas comprised 15
parishioners from local parishes concerned about the growing attempt to
remove the name and images of Christ from all Christmas celebrations, said
Kay Mansolill, Chairman of the Pilot Program to Keep Christ In Christmas.
Today the group has multiplied and is selling car magnets not so much
as a fund raiser, said Pastor Dennis Glick, St. Paul Lutheran Church here,
but rather to get the message out to our community what the entire
celebration of Christmas is really all about.
TransMedia Group will get the word out about the Keep Christ In
Christmas car magnets and how they can be purchased in bulk by churches,
schools, individual ministries and organizations from Ron Hollander at
linandron@comcast.net.
As for protecting the First Amendment rights of Christians to celebrate
the birth of Christ in the public square, such as the Nativity scene here
in Sanborn Park, "we believe there is ample legal justification," said one
of the group's originators, Susan Cutaia. She cited opinions by Attorney
Jay Alan Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice
(ACLJ), The Thomas More Law Center, the Rutherford Institute's "Rules of
Christmas" and "It's the Law: Nativity Scenes are Legally Protected."
Keeping Christ in Christmas is at the heart of Christian beliefs,
Madden said. "Along with the holy day of Easter, the birth of our Lord is
the holiest of Christian holidays," he said.
"We're happy to give our Lord some good PR."
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