From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG Phila Daily News Religious Liberty 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. -- 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.