thurcday, april 10, 1930
daily nebraskan
page 7
Schlafly: Carter proposal hurt ERA
By Diane Andersen
President Carter's proposal to require women to regist-,
er for the military draft has "put the nails in the coffin"
of the Equal Rights Amendment, according to Phyllis
Schlafly, national chairman of the Stop ERA movement.
Schlafly spoke to more than 500 people in the
Nebraska Union Wednesday, many of whom wore cards
with 'ERAW on them. Her speech was sponsored by the
Young Americans for Freedom, of whose national board
Schlafly is a member, and The Young Americans Found
ation, a Washington -based group that supports conser
vative speakers on college campuses.
Schlafly said that because Congress rejected the move
to draft women, it showed that American people are
against the ERA. She said the ERA is the biggest fraud
ever put over on the American people because it will not
gjve women any rights.
"Women have all the constitutional rights men do,"
she said. Schlafly said the Equal Employment Act of
1972 is "enforcing very aggressively" equal job
opportunities for men and women, which she supports.
What Schlafly said she opposes is "sameness of treat
ment of the sexes" which would be created by the ERA
in every area, with no exceptions possible except by
another Constitutional amendment.
Women are riot the equals of men in physical strength,
she said, and so should not be forced to serve in combat
positions in the military.
"The experience of all world history tells us that men
better defend a country than females," she said. Most
women only have 55 to 60 percent of the strength men
have, and so would not be able to survive as well in a war,
she said.
Bomb threat forces
statehouse evacuation
A Wednesday afternoon bomb threat gave Nebraska's
state senators a short reprieve from their legislative duties.
An unidentified caller, who officials have not been able
to identify, contacted the state emergency operator about
4:30 pjn. and told the operator that a bomb had been
planted in the capitol building.
The building, which houses almost 1 ,000 employees,
was evacuated at 4:34 so police and fire officials could
search for the bomb. The search proved fruitless.
Senators and other workers went back into the building
40 minutes later, after state and local officials ahd com
pleted the search.
Capitol employees were not unprepared, however, for
the eventuality of a bomb threat, said Harland Johnson,
technical assistant for the Legislature.
Johnson said unit leaders had been selected for various
portions of the building and were instructed by bomb ex
perts a month ago on how to handle a bomb threat.
Bomb threats at the capitol are not unusual, Johnson
said. Many threats are received each year, but this one is
the only recent one that has appeared serious enough to
evacuate the building, he said.
Brent Stevenson, director of administrative services,
said that even though the caller did not specify a time
when the bomb was to go off, the officials involved had
felt it safe to allow employees back into the building.
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Fifteen percent of women in the military today are
pregnant, she said.
"The purpose of the armed forces is not to be a mater,
nity ward Schlafly said.
'Somebody tell me what 4s fair about taking my 20-year-old
daughter (for the draft), but not my 23-year-old
son, my 25-yearold son or my 29-yearold son, she said
when members of the audience questioned her position
on the draft.
When Title IX was amended to allow separation of the
sexes for school sports and certain single-sex colleges,
dorms, fraternities and sororities, Schlafly said, "We
learned the lesson that there are certain people who like
single-sex education. .
She said all institutions, including private schools,
would have to enroll both sexes to conform to the ERA
if it is ratified. She added that the ERA would mean a
tremendous transferral of power from the states to the
federal government,' because Congress has been made
solely responsible for implementing it. .
Schlafly criticized ERA supcrters for changing the
ERA to being "rigid and absolute" in its language and
stripping it of all qualifying amendments that might
be used to make exceptions for pregnancy or physical
differences between men and women.
She also- said the extension period to allow more of
the 38 required states to ratify the ERA is a "crooked
extension" based .on a simple majority vote of Congress,
not the two-thirds majority it requires.
That issue is now being considered in an Idaho federal
district court, she said.
We've been very successful in defeating the ERA in
state legislatures," she said, explaining that the backers
of the amendment have a "net score of zero" in the last
seven years. During that time, five states have ratified the
amendment and five have rescinded previous ratifications
of ERA.
"President Carter has done all he can" to get it ratified
Schalfly said. She said that despite heavy economic
pressures on legislatures, the people vote ERA down every
time it is put on the ballot.
ERA' would give the U.S. Supreme Court a "blank
check" to interpret its meaning, she said, adding still more
power to the federal government.
1 am for the equality of economic opportunity "
Schlafly said, adding that it already exists. "I am for the
institution of the family,' she said.
She said she supports Ronald Reagan for president
because he is against the ERA.
The answer to any sex discrimination that still exists,
Schlafly siad,is not in the ERA but in specific legislation
aimed at specific problems" that would be flexible enough
to allow ' exceptions to be made to account for the
difference between the sexes.
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