Subject: IWG Phila Daily News Religious Liberty
From: Interfaith Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:38:59 -0400 (EDT)

June 11, 1999

Philadelphia Daily News
PO Box 7788
Phila., PA 19101

Dear Editors:

	Thank you for your June 8 editorial supporting
religious liberty.  Today we learned that a group of
thirteen organizations, including the Christian
Coalition and the American Family Association, are
calling for a boycott of the US Army until Wiccans are
denied their Constitutional right to free exercise on
army bases.  Oddly, many of those thirteen
organizations identify themselves as working for
religious liberty. It is nice to have one daily
newspaper in Philadelphia with a reasonable
understanding of the establishment and free exercise
clauses of the First Amendment.

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.