Christians and X-Mas

I've recently been reading Philip Yancey, who could perhaps be best described as an Evangelical Christian who irritates a lot of Evangelical Christians.  Yancey argues that Christians' primary responsibility is to manifest God's love rather than trying to force their moral code on unbelievers.  He in fact suggests that Christianity does best in situations in which professing Christians are not in control of the government or culture.

I believe that this sheds some light on why Christians' determination to turn "X-Mas" back into "Christmas" are misguided.  Every December Christians often come across as "Pharisees and hypocrites," self-righteous and legalistic bullies who hector and lecture defenseless check-out clerks who wish them "Happy Holidays."  The rest of the year many of us focus on denouncing abortion and same-sex relationships--two issues which (conveniently) don't much affect the straight men who run most Christian organizations.  What if we instead focused on the much more difficult task Yancey speaks of, the endless and exhilarating work of seeking to reflect and embody God's love to a broken world?