Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “Women must demand — now and if necessary at the peril of our lives — that we be granted civil rights in the same way rich white men in this country were granted them: constitutional decree,” said Sonia Johnson, co-founder of Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Johnson spoke in Alamosa, Denver and Boulder at events sponsored by the Colorado National Organization for Women, Denver Women’s Political Caucus and the Colorado League of Women Voters.
Her outspoken support for women’s rights was in direct conflict with the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ stance on the ERA. This had led to her excommunication by the LDS Church in December 1979…