Religious Right opens money-raising Christmas crusade.

Religious Right groups and right-wing pundits are stepping up their ongoing campaign to convince Americans that Christmas is under attack.

In early November, the Alliance Defense Fund The Alliance Defense Fund ("ADF") is a conservative Christian non-profit organization with the stated goal of "defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. , a lawyers' outfit bankrolled by TV preachers, issued a press statement with the headline, "More than 800 attorneys nationwide ready to combat attempts to censor Christmas."

The Jerry Falwell-backed Liberty Counsel also announced a "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign" to stamp out to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion s>.

See also: Stamp alleged discrimination against the holiday.

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and John Gibson are also rallying against what they frequently describe as dark forces bent on persecuting Christians. Indeed, Gibson has authored a book on the matter called The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.

Rob Boston, assistant communications director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United or AU for short) is a religious freedom advocacy group in the United States which promotes the separation of church and state, a legal doctrine seen by the AU as being enshrined in the Establishment , told the Associated Press that "about 95 percent of the whining from the far right" over the holiday is for raising money.

"They're trying," said Boston, "to get people worked up so they will think Christmas is being removed from public life. There isn't any evidence that's happening."

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