Subject: IWG response to a very strange letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:09:08 -0400 (EDT)

April 8, 1999

Cumberland Times-News
Box 1662
Cumberland, MD  21502 

Dear Editors:

In response to Eric Kitchen’s letter (April 1): 
Religious organizations, congregations and clergy from
many religious traditions support equal civil and
religious rights for those who are attracted to people
of the same gender.   This support is usually based on
a belief in the inherent worth and equality of all
people, and by extension a belief in the moral and
ethical equivalence of same- and mixed-gender
relationships.  These beliefs have nothing to do with
dictionary definitions.

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,
[email-masked]                      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.