I'm struggling with the logic of some of the arguments presented here and the implication that because a company - for unknown reason(s) - chose to not blatantly market a patriotic holiday like so many other businesses do - their perceived slight means they are {insert outrage of choice}.
The LA Times article is enlightening - especially the final paragraph.
We have a bastard Patriotism, a sarcasm, a burlesque; but we have no such thing as a public conscience. Politically we are just a joke.
- Mark Twain
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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