Subject: IWG Maui News letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:46:10 -0500 (EST)

The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 9 congregations and religious
organizations and 38 clergy from 13 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.

April 2, 1997

Maui News
100 Mahalani Street
Wailuku, HI  96793

Dear Editors:

In his March 31 letter, Craig Rogers aptly demonstrates
why the phrase "homosexual advocate" is problematic,
while at the same time questioning why anyone would
object to its use.   Heterosexual supremacists would
like us to believe that no heterosexual would ever
accept a sexual minority as an equal human, and that
the inferiority of non-heterosexuals is enforced by
God, as anyone "vaguely familiar with the Bible" knows.

The fact that there are heterosexuals who are
intimately familiar with the Bible and who believe that
sexual orientation is morally irrelevant means that no
one person can claim to address homosexuality on behalf
of all members of the sexual and religious majority.

It would not have been unreasonable to say that a large
but rapidly shrinking majority of Christians publicly
state that they find homosexuality problematic, and
that they believe that same-gender sexual behavior is
contrary to the will of God.  Any statement beyond that
is simply too broad to be accurate.

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.