Subject: Yet Another IWG Inquirer Letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:38:37 -0500 (EST)

The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 12 congregations and religious
organizations and 50 clergy from 15 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 18, 1997

The Philadelphia Inquirer
PO Box 8263
Phila., PA 19101

Dear Editors:

	In David Walsh's November 17 commentary about the
problems he believes are inherent in protecting sexual
minorities, he compares orientation to race and gender,
missing the more obvious and appropriate comparison to
religion.   The majority of Americans, gay and
straight, identify themselves as Christians, just as
the majority, Christian and otherwise, identify
themselves as heterosexual.  But because the
constitution prohibits the government from establishing
a state religion, we have learned with pain and
difficulty not to officially promote the majority
religion.  Despite claims to the contrary, Christianity
has flourished without the state bolstering it or
showing preference.  As sexual orientation is at least
as innate as religious belief, and probably more so, it
is extremely unlikely that heterosexuality will suffer
if we stop granting it artificial legal supremacy.

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.