From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG response to a very strange letter 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. -- 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.