Subject: IWG Tacoma Letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 23:57:11 -0400 (EDT)

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 10, 1997

The Morning News Tribune
Box 11000
Tacoma, WA 98411

Dear Editors:

Thank you for running Diane Targovnik's story about gay
Jews.  It is always a relief to see the full spectrum
of religious attitudes about social issues portrayed
accurately in the media.   The sidebar clarifying the
positions of the various Jewish movements was
especially useful, although in referring to the
Reconstructionist movement as the "most liberal," you
indulged in oversimplification.  Organized religions
have complex belief systems that cannot always be
labeled with political terms like "conservative" and
"liberal" without losing an understanding of their
theological motivation.

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.