As the Christmas shopping season officially kicks off, Liberty Counsel has issued its updated Naughty and Nice List documenting which stores are censoring Christmas and which are openly celebrating it.

Liberty Counsel, a non-profit legal organization dedicated to fighting for faith and family, publishes the Naughty and Nice List every year as part of its Friend or Foe Christmas campaign where the Council pledges to be a “Friend” to anyone celebrating Christmas and a “Foe” to those who try to censor it.

The good news is that this year’s Nice List is very long and includes stores such as A.C. Moore, Best Buy, CVS, Walmart, Dillard’s and Lowes. As of this year, Belk, J.C. Penney and Khols have all moved over to the Nice List for acknowledging Christmas and offering Christmas gifting options.

Naughty List holdouts include T.J. Maxx, the Gap, Old Navy, and American Eagle Outfitters.

For the last 14 years, Liberty Counsel has been tracking retailers and how they are warming back up to Christmas. Years ago, Walmart had banned its employees from even responding with Merry Christmas. Now the company has moved to the nice list, completely embracing the Christmas season. Many other companies have followed suit.

"We are encouraged to see a surge of retail stores embracing the Christmas season. This year there is a return to honesty in advertising, where, if stores are trying to sell you a present for Christmas, that is what they call it." said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. He continued, "as our Nice List continues to expand, we are happy to report that retailers are finding their Christmas Spirit."

The Counsel’s Friend or Foe Christmas campaign has championed the cause for freedom to celebrate Christmas without cultural interference. In addition to publishing a legal memorandum detailing how the courts and the Constitution protect these rights,  it has also fought to overturn censorship in numerous cases, such as correcting school officials who rewrote religious words out of Christmas carols and reversing Christmas trees and parades that were renamed “holiday.” Thanks to their efforts, public school students can now wear red and green colors to class and the elderly can go back to singing Christmas carols in their nursing homes.