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the question of equality for blacks.
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Mormon lay priesthood. Not many
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support of the Equal Rights Amend
ment.
Kimball declared the ERA a moral
issue four years ago and urged
church members to work for its de
feat. He said it posed a threat to
traditional family life. Since then,
Mormon groups — with encourage
ment and direction from church
headquarters in Salt Lake City —
have campaigned against its ratifica
tion in several state legislatures.
But Johnson, a former college En
glish teacher and mother of four chil
dren, could not accept Kimball’s
teaching — a difficult thing for her to
do since Mormons consider the
church leader to be a prophet and
God’s spokesman on earth.
Also, she could not accept in si
lence the church’s lobbying efforts
against the ERA.
Johnson helped organize Mor
mons for ERA, a group of Mormon
feminists which set out to counter
the church’s politicking. Mormons
for ERA lobbied for the amendment,
sponsored rallies and tweaked Mor
mon leaders by hiring airplanes to
tow pro-ERA banners over church
conferences in Utah and Virginia.
That, in itself, probably wouldn’t
have gotten her into trouble. Other
Mormons have publicly supported
the amendment, including Utah’s
Gov. Scott Matheson, Salt Lake City
Mayor Ted Wilson and women who
unsuccessfully sought its ratification
in the Utah Legislature.
But Johnson went further. She de
nounced the Mormon patriarchy,
telling a meeting of the American
Psychological Association in New
York that the men of the church tre
ated women as “bootlickers and
toadies.” She told the psychologist,
“The Mormons, a tiny minority, are
dedicated to imposing the prophet’s
moral directives upon all Americans
and they may succeed if Americans
do not become aware of their
methods and goals.
“Because the organization of the
church is marvelously tight and the
obedience of the members marve
lously thorough-going, potentially
thousands of people can be mobil
ized in a very short time to do consci
entiously whatever they are told
without more explanation than, ‘the
Prophet has spoken. ”
In another appearance in Monta
na, she suggested that people tell
Mormon missionaries they are not
interested in being preached to by a
church that does not support equal
rights for women.
Her tough talk did not go over well
with Mormon leaders, either male or
female.
Barbara Smith, the highest rank
ing woman in the church and presi
dent of the 1.5 million-member Re
lief Society, strongly disagrees with
Johnson’s characterizations of Mor
mon women.
“We hame a basic doctrine that
puts men and women together in
partnerships rather than power
struggles,” she said.
“I think she (Johnson) is trying to
promote a cause by making the
church look like it has an attitude of
uncaring or indifference to women.
That just isn’t true. ”
“I don’t know of any other society
where women have a greater voice
or more voting power or more prom
ise or more ideals surrounding the
relationship of men and women,”
said Elaine Cannon, president of the
275,000-member Young Women’s
Organization.
“The difference between Johnson
and some of my friends who support
the ERA and are still members of the
church is that they aren’t tearing
down the prophet, the church and its
policies.
“It seems very clear to me that the
Rotary Club wouldn’t put up with a
member who went around and said
the Rotary is crazy. I think the critic
ism that was leveled at the institu
tions and people we hold sacred are
in very poor taste. I don’t think it’s a
nice way to fight even a political
battle.”
Even some of Johnson’s relatives
and supporters thought she had gone
a bit overboard in her criticism if she
expected to remain a Mormon.
“It had to go that way,” said Paul
Harris, Johnson’s brother, after the
excommunication. “She’s been on a
collision course with the church ever
since she started openly supporting
the ERA.”
“Some people say she was too hon
est for her own good, ” said Teddie
Wood, a co-founder of Mormons for
ERA.
Marilyn Warenski, an ex-Mormon
who analyzed “the plight of Mormon
women” in her book “Patriarchs and
Politics,” said it was logical for John
son to be excommunicated.
“She gave them plenty of grounds
by the standards of a male-
dominated, authoritarian church
which provides no avenue for dis
sent,” said Warenski.
“It’s not surprising to me that she
was excommunicated. It is surpris
ing that she ever rose up in the first
place.”
In many ways, Warenski’s book
served as a catalyst for Mormons for
ERA. Many of its themes have been
echoed by Johnson.
The book has caused a stir in Mj
mon society because it challenf;
what Warenski calls “myths” aliotl
the roles of women in the churchli
is not a popular book with Moran
leaders because Warenski’s into,
pretation of Mormon history isdls
rent from that of official church hist
rians. 1
Warenski notes that Mom®
women have long taken pride iiu
heritage of women’s ri^its. Hie
were the first in the nation to esei
cise the vote a privilege given k
them in 1870 by the UtahTerritoriil
Legislature — a body dominated!}
Mormon men.
Leaders of the Relief Society weit
also leaders in the women’s sul
movement, campaigning hand-in
hand with Susan B. Anthony, E!
zabeth Cady Stanton and others
When Utah was admitted to th
Union, the state’s new constituta
included an equal rights clause
guaranteeing that “both male anl
female citizens of this state shall en
joy equally all civil, political and reli
gious rights and privileges."
Mormon women in the last cen
tury were encouraged to h
doctors, lawyers, teachers and bun
nesswomen.
Nearly every young Mormongd
has heard the story of Martin
Hughes Cannon, the fifth wifenl
polygamist Mormon apostle Geo®
Q. Cannon. Mrs. Cannon was
physician who became the liis!
woman elected to a state senate in
the United States. She beat herb
band for the seat in 1896.
But Warenski maintains that tk
women were encouraged to partid-
pate in political and economic
in early Utah because the male pal
riarehs of the church decided thalii
'would be to the advantage of Mor
mon society.
Women were given the vote it
increase Mormon power at thi
during a time when many non-
Mormons were moving into
Territory and the church was do
fending its practice of polygamy,
says.
They were encouraged to join tk
national suffrage movement because
it gave them a platform to defendth
institution of polygamy. ,
Women were allowed to b
professionals because the new tern
tory neded professionals and
men were busy converting n«
church members.
In nearly all cases, contend!
Warenski, it Was men using women
to serve the interests of the church
“There was little concern
women’s rights per se,” she says
“They were concerned about build
ing up the Mormon kingdom.”
But now, she says, the creative
spirit of the early church” whichled
to some amount of equality for
women is being replaced byacoa
servative trend which stresses ik
women’s place in the home raisinj
children. And Mormon women are
doing what the patriarchs have
ordered just as they did in the las!
century, says the writer in an exp
nation for the massive Mormon
opposition to the ERA.
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charge of its willed-body program.
He said the need for willed bodies
is critical, because doctors must
learn by doing. Medical students
must have bodies to dissect, because
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is put together,” he said.
“You wouldn’t want a mechanic
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hand how everything worked,”
Wagner said. “It’s the same way with
doctors.”
One of the most common miscon
ceptions people have is that they will
be paid for willing their bodies to
science.
“It is illegal, not only in the state of
Texas but anywhere in the United
States, to buy bodies,” Wagner said.
In the early days of medical scien
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why the practice of buying b
was made illegal, he said.
In spite of this, there is one finan
cial incentive for people to will their
bodies to medical schools. Texas
A&M will pay for the preparation
and transportation of the l
which can relieve the family c
financial burden of a funeral, '
ner said.
“The primary reason people
ate their bodies is to advance medic--
al science,” Wagner said. “In aver):
real sense, it is the ultimate gift."
The decision to will one’s body is
not a legally binding commitment,,
Wagner said, and the donor canal
ways change his mind. And although
the wishes of the donor take legal
precedence over the wishes of the
next-of-kin, the school is not inclined
to accept bodies against the wishesolj
the donors’ families, Wagner said
“It would be bad for medical sci
ence to rob someone of their loved
ones,” he said. For this reason,
donors are advised to notify their re
latives of their intentions when they
fill out the donation forms.
Wagner said that the Texas A&M I
medical school is scattered all over]
the campus and doesn’t have the;
facilities to prepare or store willed
bodies. The willed-body program is
currently operating on an interim |
basis in cooperation with Baylor Col
lege of Medicine, Wagner said
Baylor prepares and stores the
bodies, and transfers them here as
they are needed. Texas A&M only;
has facilities to store the few bodies
which are being used.
Construction will begin this
spring on a medical building, Wag
ner said, and the medical school is
scheduled to occupy the new build
ing in January 1983. Then the Texas
A&M medical school will be able to
handle willed bodies itself, he said,
and will probably start publicizing
the program.