'Mormonland' guests Kate Kelly and Sonia Johnson were excommunicated from the LDS Church at the same Virginia meetinghouse, 35 years apart.
, the effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and ‘80s was more than merely a single political cause. It was a turning point in her life.excommunicated Johnson from the Utah-based faith in 1979
for allegedly spreading false doctrine and working against them but she always maintained it was for exposing details of the church’s national campaign against the proposed constitutional amendment. The discipline prompted her to evaluate all aspects of Mormonism. It also ended her marriage. At the same time, it propelled her onto the national stage, where the iconic feminist ran for the White House and used her newfound fame on behalf of women’s equality.
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