Word: mormons
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...contrast, the opposition-the Eagle Forum, Fundamentalist Christian churches, the Moral Majority, the John Birch Society, the Mormon Church, the American Farm Bureau-was well financed and smoothly organized almost from the start. While ERA supporters staged national demonstrations, foes visited state legislators to argue that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented...
Seven other women, on a hunger strike since May 18, sit in the capitol rotunda for three hours each day. One of the fasters, Sonia Johnson, 46, who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for her support of the ERA, has been hospitalized twice for muscle spasms and an adverse drug reaction, and is in a wheelchair; her weight has dropped from...
ENGAGED. Marie Osmond, 22, singing, smiling princess of the land of Osmond; and Steve Craig, 25, former Brigham Young University basketball star who now plays semipro. The couple plan to marry June 26, in a family-only ceremony in the Salt Lake Mormon Temple, followed by a reception...
...Name the other Mormon on the Toronto Blue Jays besides the since retired Danny Ainge. He is father of the famous line. "It's not easy being a Mormon in the Major Leagues...
Having Judge Callister, a member of the Mormon Church, rule on the fate of the most significant piece of women's rights legislation since the 19th Amendment 60 years ago is akin to having an executive of the National Rifle Association decide on the constitutionality of gun-control legislation...