Subject: IWG Rapid City SD, response to threatening letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 23:22:54 -0400 (EDT)

The following went out on IWG letterhead listing 12 congregations and
organizations and 56 clergy from 15 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.

May 15, 1998

Rapid City Journal
Box 450
Rapid City, SD 55709

Dear Editor:

We were shocked by Buck Mergler's May 11 letter.  Are
you normally in the habit of printing threatening
letters?  Who is this shadowy "us" to whom Mr. Mergler
refers?  He believes he will never accept
homosexuality, but that does not mean that sexual
minorities are not gaining widespread acceptance in the
rest of society, especially among people of faith.

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.

Sunday, May 31, 4 pm, First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, 21st and Walnut
Marching in the Light benefit concert http://www.libertynet.org/iwg/concert.html