Subject: IWG Utah Letter Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:45:27 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Purdom The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 2 congregations, 4 religious organizations and 21 clergy from 9 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.qrd.org/www/religion/orgs/iwg/ February 16, 1995 Howard Stephenson, Chair Senate Education Committee 1038 East 13590 South w Draper, Utah 84020 Dear Senator Stephenson: We are greatly disturbed by reports that the government of Utah is denying children in a particular minority group the basic right of peaceful free assembly and that you held illegally closed meetings in which legislators repeatedly insulted minority citizens. We had thought that this sort of state government behavior had ended with the 1960's. Sincerely, Barbara Purdom Christopher Purdom Interfaith Working Group Coordinators