by Dan Wees | Oct 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I don’t even know who he was [anti-ERA candidate]. I don’t even know what he was running for. I donated because our church wanted us to support this man.” Faithful LDS, quoted by Linda Cicero, Miami Herald, “Mormon Money Worked Against Florida’s ERA” (Miami, FL:...
by Dan Wees | Oct 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“In just two days, California Mormons alone contributed close to $13,000 [to the anti-ERA campaign]. A Florida Church leader, explaining how efficiently the (telephone tree) system works, said: ‘The structure exists where I can make 16 calls, and by the end of the...
by Dan Wees | Oct 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Word was received from somewhere that a recent poll showed ERA slightly ahead, and this was used to mobilize the Mormon Church in the Las Vegas area (where over 50 percent of the state’s population resides) for one last major effort. A meeting of Mormon leaders...
by Dan Wees | Oct 15, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I think you’ll find our women are very happy now. We have a dissident now and again, somebody who speaks out very sharply, very strongly. But that’s very unusual. Statistically it’s such a very small item that you’d hardly reckon with it… They’re outspoken. They...
by Dan Wees | Oct 14, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“When we go to foreign countries, we teach a model constitution which has been drawn up by the Freemen Institute [LDS think-tank] here. It is patterned similarly after the U.S. Constitution. We’ve taken certain concepts of the [LDS] Restored Gospel and incorporated...
by Dan Wees | Oct 14, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The Equal Rights Amendment: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” “[In 1976] ‘Citizens’ Quest for Quality Government,’ commonly referred to as...
