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# Everyone’s got an agenda, admit it
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/everyones-got-an-agenda-admit-it-editor/
- Published: 2005-08-30T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:37:57.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Eric Cooper Santa Monica*

David Pisarra’s latest attack on Christians is that every other group is accepting and tolerant, but only Christians “choose to lecture and try to convert others to their belief system” (SMDP, Aug. 23, page 4).

Let’s get one thing straight. Anybody like David, who has a weekly column, is trying to influence people to believe something. Even this letter of mine is an attempt to dissuade people from believing what David believes.

So let’s get real and admit we all have an agenda. Certainly anyone who has read more than three of David’s articles has seen a clear anti-Christian bias.

Let me give him some other very simple examples of other people-pushing agendas. Whenever I walk on the Third Street Promenade, I am attacked by the “Clipboard People” who are zealous about the mercury in our water.

Today at the Farmer’s Market, someone approached me to sign Rob Reiner’s petition for kindergarden. Around Santa Monica, whenever Arnold talks, people gather to protest and shout him down. John Kerry lost the election almost a year ago but every one of his supporters still has their Kerry-Edwards sticker on the back of their car. Turning on the television I find that the largest war chest of the year — tens of millions of dollars — was collected to protest John Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court. The scary part is that people were protesting the nominee before he was even selected. They were not even open minded enough to wait and see who it was.

Then, of course, there is the ACLU. They have removed every small cross in L.A. except the ones on hot-crossed buns... and I’m sure they are next.

Protests and activism can be good. But lets not pretend that we all don’t participate.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 30, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/083005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)