Article Courtesy of The Palm Beach Post

By Tony Doris    

Published December 24, 2015

Donna Sozzio, the Lands of the President cited by her condo association for affixing a Christmas wreath to her door, now has draped an American flag on the door, “a reminder to the board to be mindful of the rights based on our constitution.”

Since the Palm Beach Post reported Friday that the association threatened her with a $100 a day fine for her violation of condo rules, she replaced the wreath with the flag while requesting formal permission to place a cross on her doorpost.

Sozzio feels she’s being treated unfairly, since Jews are allowed to post mezuzas on their doorposts while wreaths are banned.

But the association says its no-decoration rule has nothing to do with religion, only with the size of the adornment. State law says a condo association has to allow a religious symbol on a doorpost as long as it’s no more than 3 inches wide and six inches tall. And the association manager says that’s the rule for Jefferson Tower, Sozzio’s building.

In response to the article, one reader suggested Sozzio was fanning the flames of a non-existent war on Christians when she could have just abided by the condo rules.

Another reader, who said she’d also been cited by the building, called the anti-wreath policy “ludicrous” and said she had contacted an attorney.

“If you are going to allow a 10-foot Christmas tree and a menorah in our lobby, a common area, which I think both are beautiful, then by golly you’re not going to make me take down my wreath!!”

Still another offered Sozzio a holiday gift, which she called “the Christian equivalent of the Jewish mezuza.”

“I bought it almost 20 years ago and have never used it,” Andrea Stanwick wrote. “It is white and gold and has an angel blowing a trumpet with the words “GOD BLESS” on the bottom.” Not only that, but it’s only 3 1/2 inches tall and 1 inch wide.