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Show Page 6 The UTAH INDEPENDENT January 18, 1973 The Paper Tfiat Dares To Take A Stand might be left stunned in the ruins of our family life. It would bring the Federal Government for the first time into the whole field of domestic disputes and divorce law, on a massive scale, clogging our already over crowded courts to the point of paralysis. With respect to for example we would be required under this amendment either to forget about them as far as the law Monroe Woman Discusses Equal Rights Amendment Continued From Page felt discrimination in their employment; but equal pay for equal work is guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Subchapter V 1 ; I Equal Employment Opportunities 42 U.S. Code 2000c-- 2 and by the Equal Employment Opportunity of 1972 which forbids Act discrimination in every aspect of employment, including hiring, pay and promotions. Why attack women as a whole, could it be that an attack on womenhood is an attack on the family as well. Let's take a quick look at some of the things women's Lib had done for us so far. It has brought about more down grading of the home, family, marriage and had gone so far as to call for and achieve an end to life itself in the form of free abortions. Young people are living together unmarried in dorms and communes.Government supported day-car- e centers are being promoted with the push to put children into school at age tw o and out of the influence of the home and family. Great credit can be given the w omens lib for these demoralizing effects. You can credit them also with the Equal Right Amendment which is their goal and their baby. The Amendment reads as follows: Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Leaves a lot unsaid, dbesnt it? It's like giving Congress a blank piece of paper that will be the law when filled in and two years to fill in those blanks. Senator Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina who is considered the chief Senate's authority on Constitutional law had tried to block passage of this bill in the Senate. Like Senator Hayden and many others who have taken a dose look at the bill, he realizes that it does not present the whole picture. He proposed this Amendment to the bill which would give women some safe guards. I he provisions of this article shall not impair the validity, however, of any of the laws of the United States or any State which exempt women from compulsory military service, or Irom service in combat units of the Armed Forces; or extend protections or exemptions to wives, mothers, or widows: or impose upon fathers responsibility for the support of children: or secure privacy to men or women, or boys or girls: or make as crimes rape, seduction, or other sexual offenses. All of this was rejected by an punishable voice vote." A sizable number of other changes were urged by others, most directed toward at least retaining for Congress the right to exempt draft. women from military Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana unrecorded sex-offens- es, 1 and his supporters adamantly refused to (as they put it) cripple the amendment by allowing Congress to exempt women from the draft. Professor Thomas Emerson explains the impact of the Equal Rights Amendment on the draft in the Yale Law Journal. Under the Equal Rights Amendment the women's army Corps would be abolished; women will serve in all kinds of units, and they will be eligible for combat duty.. .A woman will register Tor the draft at the age of eighteen, as a man does now... All standards applied including examinations will physical to be have neutral as between the sexes.. .Women are physically as able as men to perform many jobs classified as combat duty, such as piloting an airplane or engaging in naval operations.. .Women who serve cannot avoid the possibility of physical harm and assault. But it is important to remember that all combat is dangerous, degrading, and dehumanizing. Deferment could policy provide that one, but not both, of the parents would be deferred. For example, whichever parent was called first might be eligible for serv ice; the remaining parent, male or female, would be deferred." Ms. Frohman of Zero Population Grow th was all in favor of this. I would say yes, you would take whichever number came up first, and that would be it, and the man. if he did not already know how, would have to learn how to care for young children. Congresswoman Martha Griffith, the primary sponsor of the Equal Rights Bill said this, The draft is equal. That is the thing that is equal. But once you are in the army you are put where the Army tells you where you are going to g'What E.R.A.? is or concerned, face the redoub table semantic challenge of rewriting them without making sexual distinctions.... In short, all theLEGAL PROTECTION WHICH SOCIETY NOW TRIES TO AFFORD WOMEN AND GIRLS WOULD SUDDENLY BECOME Unconstitutional. What about the law that makes a man responsible to provide for his to Yales family. According Professor Emerson, The E.R.A. would bar a state from imposing greater liability for support on a husband than on a wife merely because of his sex. Many bill of the proponents actually in is it because bound this, rejoice g, to inhibit cause youngesters to be put in day care centers, and in many other ways act to render the family Obsolete. The Equal Rights Amendment has now been approved with the endorsement of President Nixon, by both Houses of Congress, and by the Legislatures of 21 States. If 16 more state legislatures vote for it. the amendment w ill become part of the United States Constitution. If this is what you want I hope you have the courage and strength to live with it, if not you better do now. Write your something the Governor and Senators, Representatives now, today, the time is short. child-bearin- is old an Congressman John Schmitz had some interesting comments. The greatest everyday impact of the amendment would be upon our state law s, since it is state law which had (up to now) dealt and relation domestic with assorted activ ities vv hich some of us still think of as sex crimes. In domestic relation.. .marriage and divorce, the responsibilities of parents toward children, and so the result would be utter forth chaos, f ollowed by a rev ision of the laws so sweeping, so radical, that it level-head- vandalism occurred at the Middletown An enterprising ed ur 84620. And in the meanwhile, to prevent the legislators of Utah from sneaking this bill through, all citizens of Utah are encouraged to contact their legislators by telephone and letter to request that they vote against this proposed amendment. Success to you, gallant ladies. SILVER SILVER AT LOW PRICES, 50,000? jounces of 99.9 fine and polished silver in 5 10 ounce bars at unheard of low prices. For appointment or information, write: KINGSMAN SILVER Box 36 Sandy, Utah 54070 brought to the station after suspected ed Equal Rights Amendment, a bright ray of sunshine has appeared. The generating force for this light is a group of ladies in Sev ier county who fine, patriotic and have organized to insure that the state of Utah does not ratify the monstrosity called the E.R.A. These ladies have selected the name of HOTDOG, which stands for Humanitarians Opposed to Degrading Our Girls. And degrading will be the literal result if E.R.A. is ratified. Few will disagree with a proposal to right whatever wrongs that might prevail toward women or an yone else. But as the saying gpes, sometimes the cure is worse than the ill. And it surely is in this case. For whatever injustices exist that should be corrected, the E.R.A. would increase injustices by a hundredfold. Or more. Its ramifications are monstrous. As other articles in this paper will treat the E.R.A. and its consequences, little need be said in this column. But this writer does wish to encourage all citizens in this country to join these wonderful ladies in their HOTDOG movement. It is growing fast in Utah. I attended one meeting in Orem recently where interested parties from five counties attended. Meetings were held in some of these counties within twenty-fohours. That is success! Citizens interested in information about HOTDOG may send one dollar to Mrs. Reba Lazenby, Chairwoman, HOTDOG, P.O. Box 1064, Aurora, Utah Ohio. It was Cemetery. else lies hidden in the so-call- Jj-"Wan- d tombstone, its name broken off, leaning against the walls of the police station in Middletown, Not all clouds, perhaps, have silver linings. But out of the cloud of gloom that threatens us in the form of the ? He Went That aw ay There Success To HOTDOG person has attached a handwritten note to the bottom of the stone. The original ettering read: Died. August 1. S4 . Aged 29 years. Remember me as you pass bv. as you are now so once was I. s I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me. The added note read: To follow you is not my intent, unless I know which way you went. 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