Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 16:24:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Purdom <purdom@rabbit.com>
Subject: IWG Linda Burton response



The following went out on IWG letterhead (2 congregations, 4 religious
organizations and 14 clergy - let us know if you want to be added):

November 2, 1995




The Philadelphia Inquirer
PO Box 8263
Phila., PA 19101

Dear Editors:
	
Linda Burton is right, tolerance is destroying America.  We are too tolerant of 
husbands beating their wives, and parents beating their children.  We are too 
tolerant of a system in which there is a correlation between race and economic 
status, and between gender and salary.  We are too tolerant of the random 
taunts and violence inflicted on sexual minorities, and we are way too 
tolerant of attempts to spread fear, hatred, and misinformation, especially 
in the name of innocuous mainstream groups like Mothers at Home.  In short, 
tolerance of the kind of behavior exhibited by Linda Burton is tearing us 
apart.

In this age of information a belief system that cannot withstand exposure to a 
little knowledge is doomed to failure.  Someday Ms. Burton, or her children, 
will come to appreciate, and even celebrate, the diversity and contributions 
of all the wonderful, interesting people in this country who are different 
from her, some of whom, once a year, dress up in leather and march in parades.


					Sincerely,
		Barbara Purdom            	Christopher Purdom
			Interfaith Working Group Coordinators