Subject: IWG Chicago Tribune Jimmy Creech letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:37:24 -0400 (EDT)

June 3, 1999

Chicago Tribune
435 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Dear Editors:

	A headline on Joseph Sjostrom's May 30 digest of
coming events referred to the Rev. Jimmy Creech as an
"arrested minister."  Rev. Creech, who has been
mentioned several times in your paper in the last
year, was charged, tried and acquitted in a United
Methodist Church court, not a civil or criminal court. 
Fortunately, thanks to our constitutional separation
of church and state, church courts do not have the
authority to arrest, imprison, or execute.

Sincerely,
Barbara Purdom     Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators

The above letter went out on IWG letterhead listing 17 congregations and
organizations and 65 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,
[email-masked]                      reproductive freedom, and the 
voice: 215-235-3050  fax: 232-0829      separation of church and state.