From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG Oklahoman - Homosexuality/Abortion/Death Penalty link? 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 -- Interfaith Working Group Religious organizations, congregations iwg@libertynet.org and clergy supporting gay rights, http://www.libertynet.org/~iwg/ reproductive freedom, and the 215-235-3050 separation of church and state.