From: Barbara Purdom <purdom@CritPath.Org>
Subject: IWG Boston Globe DOMA/ENDA Letter
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:12:19 -0400 (EDT)



The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 2 congregations, 5 religious
organizations and 35 clergy from 12 faiths and denominations. If you are in
the general Philadelphia area and represent a congregation or religious
organization or are clergy, let us know if you want to be added - all faiths
are welcome. We will also be happy to help start similar organizations in
other areas.  Visit the web page at http://www.libertynet.org/~iwg/.

September 10, 1996

The Boston Globe
Box 2378
Boston,  MA  02107

Dear Editors:

Thank you for your article attacking DOMA and
supporting ENDA.  Actually DOMA and ENDA are both about
morality.   They are about treating each other with
equality and respect because we are all different.  If
we were all the same, treating other with equality and
respect would be no challenge at all.  DOMA is indeed
horrendously impractical but more importantly it adds a
new federal layer of entanglement to state and church
involvement in marriage, and it seeks to continue the
myth that heterosexuals are morally superior.


					Sincerely,
		    Barbara Purdom                  Christopher Purdom
			    Interfaith Working Group Coordinators