Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:02:09 -0500 From: Interfaith Working Group Subject: IWG Daily Kansan Proposition 22 letter March 18, 2000 Daily Kansan Stauffer-Flint University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Dear Editors: As you noted in your March 14 editorial, Proposition 22 was a democratic vote, but a vote that changed nothing legally, and a vote that went against one of this country’s most basic and important ideas: equal treatment under the law. Discrimination in civil marriage is an ethical issue, a moral issue, and a civil rights issue; it is not an issue that can be hidden in the closet or settled with a popular vote with almost 40% of the voters dissenting. Sincerely, Barbara Lamond Purdom Christopher Purdom Interfaith Working Group Coordinators The above letter was sent on IWG letterhead listing 19 congregations and religious organizations and 64 clergy from 16 religious traditions. Visit our Religious Support for Equal Marriage Rights page: http://www.iwgonline.org/marriage/ -- Interfaith Working Group PO Box 11706 Philadelphia, PA 19101 http://www.iwgonline.org/ iwg@iwgonline.org voice: 215-235-3050 fax: 215-232-0829