From: Interfaith Working Group <iwg@spruce.libertynet.org>
Subject: IWG Charlotte Persecution Letter
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:22:21 -0500 (EST)

March 12, 1999

The Charlotte Observer
PO Box 2138
Charlotte, NC 28233

Dear Editors:

In his March 9 letter, Dave Wilson makes a distinction
between gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and
minorities "whose historical persecution was not of
their own making."  The problem with this kind of
rationalization is that those who have persecuted, and
continue to persecute, African Americans, Jews, and
other minorities, have always claimed, as Wilson does
in reference to sexual minorities, that the people
they are persecuting "have no idea of decency and hope
to push their warped views on everyone else."

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.


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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.

Sunday May 16, 1999 5pm. Marching In the Light: IWG Benefit Concert. Old
First Reformed Church. 4th and Race, Philadelphia, PA.  See the web page.