From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG Utah "Indoctrination" letter 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. -- 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.