February 8, 2004

St. Paul Pioneer Press
345 Cedar Street
St. Paul, MN  55101

Dear Editors:

We were confused by your choice of headline and by the quote from Tom Prichard 
in your February 5 story, “Most oppose gay marriages.”  The point of the article was 
not that most people oppose equal marriage rights for same-gender couples, but that 
most people really didn’t care one way or the other, and certainly not enough to 
amend the Constitution.  Prichard’s complaint about the wording of the survey question 
is ridiculous.  Regardless of what Prichard claims the purpose of an amendment is, 
the obvious intent and clear effect is to legally reinforce the second-class citizenship 
of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people by imposing a particular religious 
definition of marriage on the laws of the state.  

Sincerely,
Barbara Lamond Purdom			
Christopher Purdom
Interfaith Working Group Coordinators