To the editor:

I will stay out of the debate over the Santa issue, my feelings on that matter have already been expressed very well by many others in the community. I do, however, take offense to this women’s insistence to remain anonymous and The Advertiser enabling her to do so. In the first article that appeared you gave Anonymous a front page forum to express her divisive opinions, while also allowing her to speak for “others in the community.” Who are these others? Anonymous certainly does not represent my opinions, nor apparently those of the majority in our community. Last week you printed a letter from her in what amounted to an alias. Unless Anonymous legally kept her maiden name when she married, and uses it in every day life, she is not entitled to use it when convenient. Your paper acted in a hypocritical fashion by printing her letter with what amounted to a Jane Doe signature, while requiring all others to provide verifiable names. Perhaps you should extend the same courtesy to those who are unfortunate enough to show up in your weekly police blotter - I am sure those people would love to use a name that no one knows them by. Richard Simon Warwick