From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG South Dakota FRC Response Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 01:03:40 -0400 (EDT) May 16, 1999 Argus Leader Box 5034 Sioux Falls, SD 57117 Dear Editors: Since you made an exception to your rules in order to print a letter from Robert F. Regier of the Family Research Council, we hope you will consider printing our response: The Family Research Council is not the final arbiter of what makes a family, and gender is not the deciding factor. Love makes a family. Sincerely, Barbara Purdom Christopher Purdom Interfaith Working Group Coordinators The above letter went out on IWG letterhead listing 17 congregations and organizations and 61 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. -- Interfaith Working Group Religious organizations, congregations http://www.libertynet.org/iwg and clergy supporting gay rights, iwg@libertynet.org reproductive freedom, and the voice: 215-235-3050 fax: 232-0829 separation of church and state.