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editor’s note
"Women, ladies, and girls will
not be drug down to the level of
men by the passage of the 25th
amendment,*' said Oklahoma
state senator Norman Lamb last
January as he voted no on the
Equal Rights Amendment. He
meant to say the 27th Amend
ment.
No they won't. Senator.
Little minds and cowardly
hearts defeated the ERA. State
legislatures in Illinois, Florida.
North Carolina, and Oklahoma
supplied the final blows this
year. Officially .the amend
ment's ratification time was up
Wednesday. Unofficially, the
National Organization of women
gave up hope last week
"Equality of rights under the
law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or
by any state on account of sex."
So harmlessly reads the ERA.
It’s astounding that anyone
should object to this proposed
amendment
What scared the little minds is
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the very rational fear that some
of the traditions by which they
operate would be threatened by
equality. Equal work without
equal pay or denied access to
promotion would be federally
unconstitional. That hits the
budget of some opponents.
ERA would have mandated
that everyone is equally re
sponsible to the government.
The ERA stoppers translated
that as women in combat and
unisex bathrooms.
The little male minds project
ed that maybe their wives would
actually seek equality in the
organization of the family. That
translates as loss of power to
these men.
The little female minds asked,
to quote Mrs Phyllis Schlafly,
“But what about the rights of the
woman who doesn't want to
compete on an equal basis with
men ?" She made the gross
assumption that the federal
government has the force to
compel everyone to “compete"
on an equal basis.
Schlafly implied that equal
legal and social rights directly
oppose the traditional roles of
wife, mother and homemaker
ERA needed big minds and
courageous hearts who would
have been willing to "drag
women ladies, and girls" to the
same level of constitutional
equality.
The defeat may have in
creased the knowledge of
women in the American political
tradition Women advocates
and opponents of the amend
ment learned that well-orga
nized and well-funded
campaigns spell clout. The
defeat may lead to a block of
women voting in solidarity as
prophesied since the passage
of the 19th Amendment.
However. ERA became an
emotional issue. The legal focus
of the amendment got buried in
religious and social
backwardness. The fight got
sidetracked to dealing with the
irrational opposition
For now. the defeat repre
sents the lack of trust the ERA
opposition have in the ability of
Congress to implement an
amendment fairly. It shows the
fear of little minds to change the
status quo
The amendment also was
used shrewdly to divert the en
ergies of NOW and other groups
to the amendment and away
from specific social legislation
It showed the power of little
minds in the state legislatures
and — despite polls which show
an overwhelming support for
the ERA — the silent
acceptance of those little minds
by the majority of people
City operations cut
lean as 10 percent
The Eugene City Council
unanimously adopted a budget
Wednesday which involves
reductions of up to 10 percent
for all city operations
The 1983-83 Fiscal year bud
get, which begins today, will
affect all city departments from
library to police
Although the council adopted
only a 3 percent cut in the
1982-83 Fiscal Year budget on
Wednesday, total reductions
will be close to 10 percent
compared to the 1981-82 bud
get because of cuts made last
year
The addition of further “in
house" cuts will result in nearly
15 percent reductions for some
departments since the start of
last year, says Oave Whitlow,
assistant city manager
Those in-house reductions do
not appear in the actual budget
but will be handled by the
Administrative Spending Auth
ority The ASA may reinstate
some of that money to priori
tized departments but much
reinstatement is unlikely.
That money, says Whitlow,
will be used as cash flow to
avoid the need for costly loans
between property tax income
Editor's note: Tuesday's
Emerald will carry a story ex
ploring effects of budget reduc
tions on the operations of area
law enforcement agencies.
/ ax cnange starts toaay
Oregon employers will make
two changes in withholding tax
procedures starting today
They’ll withhold additional state
tax for employees as new rates
become effective. And most will
send the taxes withheld to the
state on a faster schedule.
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