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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Wow, I venture to say that in years forward, some will come to think of the following statement to be in the same category as Delbert Stapley's letter to George Romney.



It can be argued that these words are the underpinning of the Proclamation on the family.

Some of this thinking is linked directly to concerns about a unisex draft. After the preceding quote Elder Packer follows with this:

When God created male and female, He gave each important differences in physical attributes, in emotional composition, in family responsibility. We must protect and honor the vital differences in the roles of men and women, especially in respect to the family.

These issues were raised, not successfully, in the Congress. Senator Irvine introduced an amendment to the Equal Rights Amendment, which I quote:

“This article shall not impair, however, the validity of any law of the United States, nor any state, which exempts women from the compulsory military service or which is reasonably designed to promote the health, safety, privacy, education, or economic welfare of women, or to enable them to perform their duties as homemakers or mothers.”