Subject: IWG Tulsa FRC response
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:50:52 -0500 (EST)

December 23, 1998

Tulsa World
Box 1770
Tulsa, OK  74102

Dear Editors:

Yvette Cantu (letter, December 20), of the Family
Research Council, asserts that there is a "tendency for
lesbian couples to withdraw from the community."  If
lesbian couples are segregating themselves from
society, shouldn't we ask whether it is because they do
not have the same legal rights as mixed-gender couples? 
Or whether it is because they don't get the respect
heterosexual couples do from many of the institutions
that give families support in our society?  If the
Family Research Council were "truly concerned about the
well-being of homosexuals," they would support ways for
same-gender couples to feel welcomed in all settings:
gay-friendly religious institutions, non-discrimination
in housing and employment, domestic partnership
benefits, adoption by same-gender couples, and same-
gender marriage.

Sincerely,
Barbara Purdom     Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators

The above letter went out on IWG letterhead listing 16 congregations and
organizations and 60 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.

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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 
voice: 215-235-3050  fax: 232-0829      separation of church and state.