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# Letter: Responding to the Daily Press editorial on holiday decorations and exclusion
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/011707-story/
- Published: 2007-01-17T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:51:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Eric Cooper Santa Monica*

Turn on your heart lights Editor: Regarding “Put a stocking in it already” (Jan. 13-14, Page 4), that’s quite a bitter little editorial. The Daily Press states that “Non-Christians... should-n’t be expected to tolerate the party from which they have been excluded forever.” Excluded? Why? Nobody has excluded (them).

I am not Jewish, but I take great joy in sharing with, and enjoy seeing how happy my Jewish brothers and sisters are to have their Menorah on Third Street. I’m not excluded from their party.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was this week. I am not African American, but I’m sure you wouldn’t consider me excluded from taking Monday to reflect on his message. Why the bitterness about Christ’s message?

Ironically, the colored lights, the trees and the holiday songs that seem to bother have nothing to do with the birth of Christ that we are celebrating. Don’t believe me? Try to find colored lights, Christmas trees, Santa, roasted chestnuts, etc. in the Bible. Jack Frost was not, as you might assume, one of the Apostles.

P.S. — Most of the great Christmas songs were written by Jewish composers — and in the summer, no less. Look it up.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 17, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)