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Forum seeks to save traditional values i I. ,1 UI.Wl. HI HI Data Jit 'f She also objects to women who say, "Whether or not you like it, laws are being passed which will liberate women." The purpose of ERA, she said, is to shrink population. This reporter asked Mrs. Thomson if she would be more interested in supporting ERA, which would mandate equal pay for equal work, if she had a daughter who would conceivably enter the labor market, sometime in her life.

"Absolutely not. If I had a daughter, I'd work even harder against ERA. I wouldn't want my daughter drafted or in combat." She disputed state legislator Giddy Dyer, who said women will "be happy to take equal responsibility with equal rights." Eagle Forum doesn't think women want to be drafted, she said. Eagle Forum also supports special legislation for women engaged in physical labor, which would "respect the physical differences (between male and female) and family obligations." Eagle Forum is against busing and supports separate gymnastic classes for boys and girls and separate sex education classes. She views Title IX as a problem.

That federal legislation provides that equal opportunities shall be given to boys and girls in sports. Eagle Forum's motto is, "United, Womanpower for God, Home and Country." The term eagle was chosen because it is a national symbol. Mrs. Thomson's personal application of the eagle motif is taken from Isaiah: "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Eagle Forum members are touched on the raw by what they feel is the present trend of "saying a woman isn't a success unless she leaves the home." Any woman should have the choice to go out of the home or to remain home, she said. 'Clinging vines' Mrs.

Thomson takes issue with Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who says women have to get away from the clinging-vine role. "I don't feel that my husband shouldn't support me." Mrs. Thomson said. If the women's civil rights bill were passed (ERA), woman would not have a choice, Mrs. Thomson claimed.

Eagle Forum supports alimony, citing the cases of older women, divorced by their husbands, suddenly thrown on the labor market with no marketable skills whatsoever. The forum opposes abortion and believes in the right to life, from conception to natural death, regardless of age, deformity or inconvenience. It supports law and order, our system of justice, with due process of law and "punishment swift and certain." Mrs. Thomson, a Presbyterian, said the forum is composed of persons of all Protestant faiths, Catholics and orthodox Jews. The forum supports the right of citizens to have the federal government provide for the common defense against aggression by any other nation.

It also supports the right of society to protect itself by designating different roles for men and women in the armed forces and police departments. Right It is of course dead-set against women serving in combat areas. The forum feels that the community has a right to protect itself from those who abuse their bwlios with poisonous drugs. Eagle Forum would not support the legalization of marijuana. Religious bodies have the right, she said, to assign different roles among By June Simpson Pantagraph State Editor MORTON A new national organization.

Eagle Forum, has been launched to oppose what it calls anti-family, anti-religious, anti-morality, anti-life, anti-children and anti-self defense forces abroad in the land. A Morton woman, Mrs. Rosemary Thomson, is the state chairman of the national group, which was organized in October in St. Louis at a meeting of a core of 200 men and women. Mrs.

Thomson, wife and mother of two sons, explains the philosophy of the forum: "We stand for women's rights: The right of a woman to be a full-time wife and mother, and to have this right recognized by laws that obligate her husband to provide the primary financial support." In addition, the forum would support the right of local government to prevent display of printed or pictorial materials that degrade women in a pornographic or perverted manner, she said. The forum would also, she said, support the following family rights: The right of parents, and not the federal government, to care for pre-school children and the right of parents to insist that schools permit voluntary prayer and to use textbooks that honor the family woman's role as wifemother and role as providerprotector. On the individual level, Mrs. Thomson said, the forum supports the right to life from conception 'to natural death; the right of religious bodies to designate different roles among members for men and women and the right to equal opportunity in employment and education. While the forum supports "equal opportunity in employment," Mrs.

Thomson said a man who is the breadwinner for a family of children should be given job preference. A woman who is breadwinner should be given job preference over a single man, she said. A woman shouldn't be given a job for self-fulfillment when a breadwinner needs it," she said. MORTON Mrs. Rosemary Thomson, state director of the newly formed Eagle Forum, which supports traditional values, is 39 years old.

She is married to James Thomson, sales manager for a metal fabricating company, and they have two sons, 17, and 11. She is a graduate of Bradley University in English, speech and journalism. She is a former teacher, radio station copywriter and freelance copywriter for a mail-order firm. members. If one chinch maintains that woman shall not speak from the pulpit, that's fine, she said.

That's freedom of religion. If a person doesn't like that, he may join another church, which dix's allow it. Bob University separates races. Fine, she said, if university policy dictates that. Anyone who does not like that policy may attend another college.

(The Supreme Court has said that because Bob Jones only lets Caucasians in, it is not entitled to tax-exempt status. Mrs. Thomson also objects to the feminists who want to end volunteering by women. She said she is proud of her efforts in volunteer work, especially in working to get an addition to Morton High School. She disputes the feminists who say volunteering "Makes a woman a second-class citizen." "I'm not a second-class citizen." she emphasized.

Bloomington-Normal, III. D-l I mil Morton Mrs. Rosemary Thomson is state director for the newly formed Ln lnClfr organiiation, Eagle Forum, dedicated to V-IUOUUCI preserve "traditional" values. (Pan-tagraph photo) our rights. We oppose day-care centers." A widow with children shouldn't be forced out to work, she said, but should have supportive agencies to help her so that she may remain in the home.

ABIG, BIGDIFFERENCE VINGTHELIFE OF CHARLIE Eagle Forum opposes educating students to a different life-style. "Parents have rights," Mrs. Thomson said. "They should care for their pre-school children, not the federal government. We don't want the government to supersede BERGNER'S 200 S.W.

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Contestant must be 1 to 28 years o( age. Bergner's employees are not eligible. THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE $50 WORTH CHARLIE PRODUCTS SANDBURG MALL Basic values The concept behind forming Eagle Forum, its spokeswoman said, was to "found an organization to speak out for the traditional values that the founding fathers of our country established." Eagle Forum supports the Declaration of Independence and its fundamental doctrine that we owe our existence to a Creator who has endowed each of us with inalienable rights. It supports the U.S. Constitution as the instrument of securing those God-given rights.

It supports Holy Scriptures as providing the best code of moral conduct yet devised. "The moral climate will continue to decline in the country," Mrs. Thomson said, "unless women of virtue and courage provide leadership." Moral issues State legislators were instrumental in giving advice to the group to organize, Mrs. Thomson said. "We were encouraged to speak out on ERA (Equal Rights and on other moral issues.

Then we decided to expand. Eagle Forum will cover a number of moral issues." Mrs. Thomson believes a majority of men and women are tired of certain ideas and trends: "There are a lot of minority groups, who burn bras, and who support homosexual and lesbian that the majority doesn't support. NOW (National Organization for Women) claims 40,000 members. We think a lot more support our traditional values." Mrs.

Thomson takes the media to task for "making those who opposed the textbooks (in the West Virginia textbook battle) out to be fundamentalists and snake-handlers." "Those textbooks," she said, "are so vile that no newspaper would publish them. We believe parents should have a voice in rearing their children." "We support monogamous marriage," she said, "which honors the role of the mother in the home and the role of the father as provider and protector." "Psychologists claim," she said, "that mixing the roles of man and woman is confusing to the child contributes to homosexuality." Opposed The forum opposes legalizing homosexual marriages; opposes homosexuals being allowed to file income tax returns as couples and opposes their adopting children. Evangelistic series at Mackinaw church MACKINAW (PNS)-The Rev. Wayne Buchanan of Mount Vernon, will be a guest speaker Sunday through Friday, Nov. 7, at the Faith Bible Church in Mackinaw during a series of evangelistic meetings.

There will be congregational singing and special music during the services. The Sunday services will be at 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. and week day services will be at 7 p.m. There will be a nursery provided for small children.

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