From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG Dallas Censorship letter Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:03:26 -0500 (EST) March 3, 1999 Dallas Morning News Box 655237 Dallas, TX 75265 Dear Editors: We were disturbed by the February 28 quotes from the Rev. Robert Jeffress. Rev. Jeffress and his congregation are perfectly free not to check the books `Daddy Has A Roommate' and `Heather Has Two Mommies' out of the library. But this is a religiously free and religiously diverse country, in which one set of religious beliefs is not supposed to be the basis of public policy. Contrary to the views of Rev. Jeffress, Jewish and Christian teaching is not consistent or unanimous on the subject of sexual orientation (and many other subjects). If libraries stopped stocking every book that some group objected to on religious grounds, there would be almost no books left that a library could stock. 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.