Subject: IWG Harvard Crimson Letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 23:21:01 -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

Harvard Crimson
14 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Christopher Roberts' comments regarding National Coming
Out of Homosexuality Day were a perfectly reasonable
(though highly debatable) summary of majority
conservative Christian beliefs regarding sexual
orientation.  However, he claimed that his statement
reflected the beliefs of all Christians, when in fact
there is a diversity of opinion concerning sexual
orientation in Christian churches, and among Christian
laity and clergy.  Since his comments appeared in a
publication associated with the same institution as
Rev. Gomes, his overstatement seems especially
ridiculous.

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.