Subject: IWG Modesto Bee letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 23:32:00 -0400 (EDT)

The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 10 congregations and religious
organizations and 39 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 21, 1996

Modesto Bee
P. O. Box 3928
Modesto, CA 95352

Dear Editors:

In his letter of April 19, Andrew Bottom distinguishes
between men, women, and homosexuals.  Homosexuals are
just as likely to be men and women as the rest of the
population.  A very small percentage cannot be
biologically classified according to one of those two
genders, but that is unrelated to sexual orientation. 
Even if we believe that God created one first couple
who were a heterosexual man and woman, this need not
preclude the possibility that they were followed by
other people with different sexual characteristics.  
The joyful diversity of God's creation is not some kind
of mistake.

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.