Subject: IWG WPVI Letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:28:06 -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.

March 26, 1997

Linda Munich
WPVI Channel 6
4100 City Line Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19131

Dear Ms. Munich:

Over the last two years the coverage of gay-related
issues on Channel 6 has improved dramatically and we
have been encouraged by the station's willingness to
demonstrate the diversity of opinion on social issues,
especially among people of faith.  Thus, we are
puzzled by your refusal to air a commercial which
discusses only the number of states that do not ban
job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. 
Polls have consistently shown that the public is as
uninformed about the legal status of sexual minorities
as they are about the diversity of religious opinion
on the subject.  We would be very interested in
knowing what WPVI's standard is for determining
whether a commercial is "controversial." 

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.