Subject: IWG Oklahoman - Homosexuality/Abortion/Death Penalty link?
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 14:03:32 -0500 (EST)

January 26, 1997

Letters Editor
The Oklahoman
PO Box 25125
Oklahoma City, OK 73152

Dear Editors:

Your January 9 editorial was very confusing.  We fail
to understand how you can link changing attitudes
toward homosexuality and abortion with whether a jury
in a particular case chose to impose the death
penalty on the convicted defendant.  We are aware of
at least five widely-held combinations of opinion on
these three issues among Catholics, conservative and
mainline Protestants, Unitarians, Quakers, and the
various movements of Judaism.  We sincerely doubt
that any jury's decision concerning the death penalty
is related to their opinions on sexual orientation
and abortion unless those issues were factors in the
case in question.  

Sincerely,
Barbara Purdom     Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators

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