Subject: IWG Family Circle Letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 23:20:00 -0500 (EST)

The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 11 congregations and religious
organizations and 49 clergy from 14 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.

November 7, 1997

Ms. Nancy Clark
Family Circle
375 Lexington Ave.
New York City, NY 10017-5514

Dear Ms. Clark:

We are writing to urge you publish a response to Karen
Santorum's article, and we cannot imagine a better or
more heart-felt response than the one written by Sophie
Horak.  Taken together, the two stories clearly
demonstrate the nature of choice that each mother makes
for herself and her family, and that people with deep
religious convictions find themselves on different
sides in many disagreements over social policy.  We
cannot fully understand the nature of these debates
without knowing the stories of the people involved and
how they came to hold the beliefs they do.  You would
be doing your readers a great service in publishing Ms.
Horak's article.

Sincerely,
Barbara Purdom     Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators

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Interfaith Working Group                Religious organizations, congregations
[email-masked]                      and clergy supporting gay rights,
http://www.libertynet.org/~iwg/         reproductive freedom, and the 
215-235-3050                            separation of church and state.