Subject: IWG Utah "Indoctrination" letter
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:38:33 -0400 (EDT)

June 3, 1999

Deseret News
Box 1257
Salt Lake City, UT 84110

Dear Editors:

        We appreciated the obvious skepticism and
attempts at balance in your coverage of the "Education
or Indoctrination" conference.  However, while an
attorney for the Utah State Board of Education denied
the existence of a plot to "promote homosexuality and
undermine religion" (a rather ridiculous charge in a
state that did everything in its power to deny sexual
minority children the right to even meet on school
property),  the faulty premise on which the charge was
based went unchallenged: homosexuality and religion
are not incompatible, and the promotion of equal
treatment and respect for sexual minorities does not
require the "undermining" of religion.
   
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.