Subject: IWG Chattanooga - Reggie White religious discrimiantion?
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:59:40 -0400 (EDT)

August 15, 1998

Chattanooga Free Press
Box 1447
Chattanooga, TN  37401-1447

Dear Editors:

We certainly agree that religious job discrimination
is just as bad as sexual orientation job
discrimination.  In the case of Reggie White,
however, the jobs involved representing companies to
the public; he made extremely stereotyped statements
about people of various ethnicities (many of whom
might have shunned those companies); he showed a
willingness to drag his employers into debates where
they have no wish to go (he appeared in a political
ad wearing his Packers uniform); and the
organizations sponsoring the ads in question advocate
limiting the rights of even more potential and
current customers.  Obviously, this is not a simple
case of religious job discrimination.  

Sincerely,
Barbara Purdom     Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators

The above letter went out on IWG letterhead listing 16 congregations and
organizations and 59 clergy from 16 religious traditions. 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.

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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.