Was it a matter of referral, a commission, that microphone for Mr. Moderator?

I think that it's time that women should not have to come to this assembly begging. We have been knocking on the doors of this church for too long a time now. And it seems to me that this is rather picayune to deny us the privilege of answering a concern with the other included with the five concerned. What more planning, how much more long range planning do we have to wait for to open the doors of our church for women to take their rightful place? I love you that we think the concern included in the line. Thank you.

Look at microphone seven, microphones thick. I wish to speak about something different. All right, microphone, pen, microphone, a moderator.

I've had the pleasure of being able to meet with some of these women from the task force with other concerns. And the one thing that has become apparent to me is I've met with them is that everywhere and this assembly, I've heard it say over and over again that there is a great path ahead. In the 70s, it would seem that we suddenly realized that there is a great deal of human potential among our youth. We have begun to acknowledge that there is a great deal of human potential among minority groups. It would seem only consistent that if we are attacked, then that we would acknowledge that there is a great deal of human potential for the effective fulfillment of the goals we have that were now among the women of our church. I would think that we would be remiss to just delay including them as a viable part of our churches life since they're there and doing it anyhow for any period of time.

Thank you. The matter before us is a matter of referral. Microphone three, Mr. Moderator, Chuck's local Mankato Presbyterian Youth Advisory delegate, I speak in favor of retaining retaining it in the report. I in Minnesota work for a political party where we have a similar problem in attracting and maintaining women.

And I'm reminded of a statement made by a lady, congresswoman from Brooklyn, New York. She said, In all my life, working in government, in the church and in politics, I've never been discriminated again against as much as I have. But as a woman, I put that real well. Thank you.

No, my point is that this lady's name was Shirley Chisholm Black, and she's the only woman congressman in the United States Congress. Thank you. Microphone to a House panel in Minneapolis, Presbyterian.

Perhaps our church has been acting illegally, but we've been operating for some time with almost half of our session, our women. We feel that we I'm speaking now against this motion. I think we should take care of it right now. First, to make it possible for our church to operate legally we thought was all right to ensure women are equal. So I am speaking against referring to the Long Range Commission that we had handled out.

You are not illegal, Mr. Microphone five moderator. I move the Brady, but. All in favor of ending debate on Rip-roaring recommendation one, that long range planning committee of the general council, which they are all opposed, no bailout rule. If the debate is ended, then and now is before us shall or shall not be referred all in favor of referring. It will say I. Those opposed referring it will say no motion defeated. The entire report is now before us. Mr. Commissioner, microphone six, Norman.

This is Norman Meynard, Long Island Presbyterian. I wish to speak about recommendation number 11, which is an appropriate symbol of the churches that do not have women serving on the station, but appear to me more appropriate to have the symbol for the churches that do have women rather than do not. And I would move that they would not be deleted from the third line of that recommendation.

Is there a second name is Lambert. Would you rather accentuate the positive?

Right at this moment? I'd rather accentuate the negative because we feel that there are mandates within these recommendations, which would require presbyteries and other authorities to make sure that there are appropriate representations on the sessions. And that would be much easier for them to look down there and find the ones that do not have members. Then I would look down the list and find those who do have members.

Then you don't want to defeat the substitute motion that the motion is before us or the others who wish to speak to it. Microphone Tim Alexander from the Presbytery.

I want to make it clear that I'm all in favor of the equality of women and men and the work of the church. And anybody who knows me knows I am very partial to women and their comradeship.

However, there is one fact of life that is, I think, not being fully recognized in the debate here. And that is that time and over again, for instance, the Congress of the United States, we are a body where there are half teaching elders and half rolling elders, and until there is a significant number of ordained women.

Women cannot really have a full share as as proportion, but the number of women that there are, for example, and the delegation from the Presbyterian, Elizabeth, we have 10 delegates, three out of the five laymen or 60 percent of the labor laity. And in our delegation are women. And yet there are only three out of 10. So that I think that this has that we have to approach equality from a point, from a point of view of Presbyterian polity if we're going to bring this up anywhere near equal. I just want to point this out as we are looking at statistics and percentages.

Now, Mr. Commissioner, are you supporting the substitute that the symbol indicates churches that do have? I would say yes. Thank you.

Microphone eight, Bruskin Makinen, Presbyterian Youth Advisory Delegate. Yes, I'd like to speak against the motion. I feel that an issue is being made out of nothing.

And my congregation for the session has one woman as a member of this session. If a questionnaire was sent to the whole congregation, I don't if I think a woman would sign the questionnaire saying that she would like to be a member of that session, I feel that an issue is being made out of nothing because I feel that the women do have an equal chance based on qualifications of the Foreign Office in regards to particular comments made by the women in regards to women being granted the degrees and graduate school and master's degrees, I think I don't really feel that there is one graduate school that discriminates because of a person said.

The issue before us has to do with recommendation 11, shall the assembly have a symbol that indicates those churches that do not have women held all the symbols represent those that do have women now sticking to the whole microphone?

Six organ playing Presbyterian move.

The previous question, are you in favor of ending debate or will say I oppose?

No. The motion before us now is a recommendation for change recommendation 11 that an appropriate symbol in the index of churches shall indicate those that do have women.

Girls all in favor will say I oppose. No, the recommendation, as it stands, is supported. The full report is now before us again. Microphone by Douglas Bronson, rector of Hudson River.

I'm concerned on point eight and nine that there seems to be some blocks being thrown in the way of church union. And I would move to a man point eight to strike the words following new United Church.

And when I see the words proposed, United Church, the it's in the sixth line of point eight, it would remove and to make sure that no agreements are made, which would undermine or lose the status already legislatively achieved for women in the United Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

All right. The second to the.

Mr. Commissioner, you all buy a thin microphone, three another matter.

Yeah, I think the commissioner should know if they do not, that the plan of union, which you have before you and which was acted upon at an earlier session, is very meticulous in guaranteeing full participation of women. And another fact you should know about the consultation on church union is that at the plenary session in St. Louis just a couple of months ago, the consultation on church union for the first time elected a woman vice chairman, and she was Mrs. Lewis Fair of the United Presbyterian Church.

Microphone three. Mr. Moderator Ray Wittering, South Carolina Ballet Presbyterian. I've been concerned by the attitude shown in the making of the report and the attitude by the commissioners in receiving it over a matter of nearly 30 years of ministry and small rural churches, I found the most valuable workers have been the women. I have found that the women were greatly concerned and met in prayer many times, trying to get their husbands to take an interest in the church that the women elders deplored the fact that the men would not take an interest and take the office of Elder in churches where they were all women. If it weren't for the women, there had been no church.

I feel like some of the commissioners here are not aware of this segment of the church, other things happen in other areas, but I want to testify to the fact that the women that I have seen as Erlich elders have wanted men to take their places again and again. The churches, which I now serve in rural New York, not one of them wants to have more women elders. They want men and they ask for men to participate in the church in all ways. And so I think the whole spirit of this is rubbing things the wrong way for this segment of our church.

So I appeal to you to think through things thoroughly in this matter.

Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Watering the microphone for the moderator, Kenny Perry and Fernando Presbyterian.

I love the previous question.

All in favor of ending debate will say I pose no thought of the motion before us is to receive the report and adopt the 13 recommendations.

All in favor will say, I will move toward my.

As you will notice, there are further recommendations. There is an overture which the standing committee refers to the General Assembly for transmission to the presbyteries for their affirmative or negative vote. The overture is on amending the Book of Order Chapter 27 on ministerial relations, dealing with the counseling of nominating committee that particular churches and I read as follows. Whereas women as well as men are ordained to the Ministry of the United Presbyterian Church to serve his constituency, and the church must therefore provide equal employment opportunities for them. One hundred and eighty second General Assembly directs the state clerk to propose the following overture to the presbytery for their affirmative or negative reply shall form of government Chapter 47, Section Fourth to be amended by adding to the sentence in, quote, the Committee on Ministerial Relations and Counseling with the pulpit, nominating committees of churches shall recommend and urge the nominating committee to consider candidates without regard to race or ethnic origin and called the word sex or marital status after the word origin quoted the sentence. Read the Committee on Ministerial Relations and Counseling with the Pope at nominating committees of churches shall recommend and urge the nominating committee to consider candidates without regard to race, ethnic origin, sex or marital status.

Moderator I move that this be accepted and the discussion I read to both all these people, if they are opposed, no.

So ordered at the bottom of page 176 in your blue book.

Either paragraph, which creates the task force on women, the Standing Committee of Women on Women record, requests that the 180 second General Assembly change paragraph the to read that the task force submit annual reports of a study together with appropriate findings and recommendations to the National Executive Committee of the United Presbyterian Women and the Council on Cherkin Society, which I'll submit the report jointly to General Assembly's Standing Committee on Women, together with their content there on moderator, I move accepting their second read the vote all in favor will say I both know the audit. The Standing Committee on Women requested that the task force on women be expanded to include representation of young people with contemporary female consciousness. I'm of the acceptance of the recommendation, Miss Lambert.

Where are you reading that, please? I'm with you.

Twenty five, and I believe it is their second in a discussion, this is the Young People's Assembly.

All the people will say I know so ordered.

I'm an.

Be under the recommendation of the standing committee. Now, this, may I say, rose out of some concerns which we have heard from other groups to whom we have listened and our standing committee deliberations, the Standing Committee on Women request the General Assembly of the hundred and eighty second United Presbyterian Church to encourage local churches to use their funds and facilities to provide community child care centers with client directed programs, and that the Executive Committee of United Presbyterian Women and make this all one sentence concurred. Look to the implementation of this recommendation in its proposed Hungar emphasis and report to the 1971 General Assembly. I move. The adoption of this is seconded. I think one of our youth delegates would like to speak to it is this second. I think on the ground, I will speak from the platform to this, Cindy.

There's a desperate urgency among unmarried, abandoned, widowed and divorced mothers who must take care of their children at home, especially in marginal economic situations that have been my experience in northern New York and in West Virginia, both severely depressed areas. But these women are powerless to improve their state of affairs. Many cannot take on a job since they are unskilled and they are women the less desired by employers. Generally, they cannot receive training as they have no money for babysitter. Daycare centers would alleviate these problem and would allow so many despairing women to leave the welfare rolls and elevate their financial status, living standard, self-respect and hope.

Thank you, Cindy.

Are you ready to vote? All in favor. I hope no one member.

Would it be in order to ask Cindy to speak to another section of this, another concern and the connection? Certainly. Certainly.

We've not needed to make that statement in order to encourage the full participation of women in the future General Assembly. I request that I commit that a commissioner make the following motions, as I cannot do that one that the local arrangements committee of Future General Assembly provide child care facilities for assembly participants who wish to bring their children to the assembly city and to the General Assembly, urged local Presbyterian to provide child care facilities for assembly participants from their Presbyterian who would prefer that arrangement.

I think it has been moved in second and Cindy, I'm not clear quite on the second understanding on the first that future planning committee to provide child care centers for the assembly. What's the connection of local Presbyterian?

Well, if they have young school children who would prefer to leave their children at home, but mother felt that they didn't have anyone to take care of. The elders from is going to Presbyterian meeting a no no attending the assembly. If a woman couldn't come to because I'm with you on that. Thank you. Read. Ready to.

A commission coming to microphone six.

They're promoting Presbyterian, it seems to me that this certainly involves financing. And should be referred to the Committee on Accommodation's I would move it.

Well, now, Mr. Kirk, you'll have to help up a little bit here, the moderator, there is no committee by that name and I that.

Personally, is there is such a committee, I add. I would be happy to implement your recommendation, I do not think that it would be a major item of expense at all.

Thank you.

The other microphone for Jenny Perry, San Fernando Presbyterian. I appreciate that. The intent and the motion, but I would speak again, particularly the second half, I being a woman, being a delegate, having a child in school and is extremely being extremely well cared for during my time. You know, families feel that in a Christian community, which is really not a problem to be dealt with at this time. And also, as a woman, I would like to get on with, you know, what we're here for.

I recognize the commissioner and microphone for Earl Stern, Presbyterian Muskingum, I'm questioning I, I am not clear as to whether we are asking or instructing the Presbyterian the second section. I think we have a right to ask, but we can instruct.

Well, we are asking the local Presbyterian to provide childcare facilities for an elder who might be a commissioner, the General Assembly. She could not have her children taken care of other ways.

I read the vote all in favor of this additional recommendation will say I oppose. No, I'm going to rule. But it was defeated unless you want the standing vote.

All right, well, those in favor of this additional recommendation, please stand. Thank you, all those who are opposed, would you please stand? All right, I think the defeated. Thank you.

Mr. Miranda Lambert, finally, the Standing Committee on Women, offers a resolution advocating the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, you have it in your collection of papers waiting for the liberation of all persons, irrespective of race, color, ethnic origin, age, marital status or sex is a priority issue in the 1970s for all Americans, whereas discrimination against women on the basis of their sex is widespread in local, state and federal government, in schools and colleges and the business world and in the churches where as equal status for all women in America has never been extended under the Constitution or court interpretations who women as citizens, workers and homemakers.

Whereas resolutions proposing an equal rights amendment have been introduced in every Congress since 1923. That is for 47 years without action. Therefore, the Standing Committee on Women proposes that the 180 second General Assembly advocate, the immediate passage of the Joint Resolution 61 quote resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, assembled two thirds of each House, concurring therein that the following article is proposed as amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states. Article II, Section one Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of that. Congress in the several states shall have power within their respective jurisdictions to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section two this article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures. The three board of several state Section three. This amendment shall take effect one year after the date of ratification and quote, Who will implement this action? The stated Clerck in the name of the General Assembly shall communicate its advocacy of effective immediate action on this proposed constitutional amendment to each member of Congress. To Senator Birch Bayh, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendment, and Congressman Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and to the president of the United States through the General Assembly, urging the Senate Synodical Presbyterian Presbyterian congregations and individual members to advocate and communicate with the members of Congress and the president their support of this proposed constitutional amendment. Moderator I urge the adoption of the recommendation to move its adoption move.

It is their second this recommendation before this House for discussion on any commissioners who wish to speak to it. Are you ready to go all in?

People will say, I both know the eyes have it.

We want to bring to your attention a little paragraph at the bottom of the previous page that we met, and again, I want to say this is no reflection on our moderator, but we do think it's time that we consider the possibility of a woman moderator.

Now you're getting threatening.

Rather late in the deliberations of our committee request that came in to us, which decided us to ask the General Assembly to direct the task force on the Web and in consultation with the division of higher education, seek ways to make available to women the opportunity for graduate studies on women in church and Society would it be in order to move this also to moderate?

And it certainly would some that is this second discussion.

Are you ready to be all in favor? Say aye.

Opposed? No. Go on to the Standing Committee on Women conferred with two other standing committees. One of them was the Senate Committee on Religion and Race. We concurred after having made several suggestions to the committee and having entered into conference again with the committee. Now, maybe I'm remiss, but I do not find in the printed report that were given to us the inclusion of the additions as they were decided upon in consultation. Now, if these additions are included, the Standing Committee on Women concurred wholeheartedly.

The moderator. I think that the time to bring this matter to the floor is one the reports of these other committees are brought.

There may be oral changes suggested which would completely satisfied then it would be in order to hold off the one on the second album until I wish to thank all who have helped us, including the General Commissioners, the General Assembly Task Force and the committee and the youth, and to move that this report in be received just before we put that vote.

There is a young man here who has come out.

You want it has to do with Cindy Crown of recommendation that was defeated when the crown his recommendation was defeated, I believe, because many of the commissioners felt that the second point was not perhaps as good or as valid as the second to this as the first. Excuse me, Mr. Moderator, I would like to move in order to encourage the full participation of women in future General Assembly. That will be a local arrangement Committee of Future General Assembly to provide child care facilities for assembly participants who wish to bring their children to the assembly city period.

The second discussion. May I speak to you? Threatening me?

Frankly, it seems to me that this is another example of where a commissioner, if there is any financial hardship in the home whatsoever, might have to decline the opportunity to be a commissioner rather than to come. I would certainly hope that the assembly would pass this resolution.

Thank you. Are you ready to vote?

Microphone to I was to panic Presbyterian Mannitol. I'm wondering if this also means that the men commissioners whose wives are working the clothes that they make, so bring all More Light only in relation to women.

We're not going to discriminate against men.

Microphone three. I like to think the overall report.

All right, hold that just a moment.

Microphone seven, my name is Helen Archer from Joplin, Missouri. Presbyterian with covered children of all ages from infants.

And how far we'll leave that in the hands of the committee on arrangements. They may be sending a note that they can take care of preschool aged children. Yeah, we do that. That the Committee on Arrangements work at that facility for the.

All right. Microphone Kleban.

I don't recall whether the motion is read, ask for child care centers or daycare centers, which child care. And I think microphone nine, the moderator, Lois Dunlap's Southwest Iowa.

I'm not sure your life committee nine Amirli. I can hear you.

Thank you for giving me that. It did me that there's something implicit in in this particular resolution, which I can speak to because I don't have a session in military. We don't have to have that relationship. But there is an implication here that the sessions would elect someone to come to this assembly, but then would be so discourteous as not to provide the funds necessary in the case that was necessary. I don't believe any session. Would it be that uncharitable? And I would repeat to the resolution. Thank you.

Microphone 10.

The moderator had to head from Monmouth Presbyterian. I'm concerned about this resolution, the criticism that might generate from here for excessive spending of money. I can foresee that this bringing up children and husbands is going to generate into a vacation for the family at General Assembly expenses, and I would propose a vote against it.

Thank you, Michael.

Microphone nine, Mr. Maretta Harold Thomas Presbyterian Brunswick, I moved the previous question.

All in favor of ending debate with the I hold no thought of the motion before us is to instruct the planning committee to investigate, to provide the child care facilities at the next assembly.

All in favor will say, I oppose no move, that it was defeated. Now, Mr. Commissioner, somebody wanted to speak to the report as a whole.

Yes, sir. I like that question. Your name and Presbyterian Jerry Hertzog, Duquan of New York State.

I thought how many men representative on the task force and how many women are.

I believe right now the answer is we have three men and 11 women. Thank you.

Mr. Moderator, I would like to make a motion that equal representation be on the court for.

Well, now, Mr. Clarke, I need a little help on the whole report is before us, this would have to be considered as a separate matter after we've both been receiving the whole report, would it not?

This would really be an amendment to that for that section of the report, which recommends that it be enlarged by the addition of young people. This would be an amendment recommending that it be enlarged by the addition of men bringing the proportion up to the quality.

All right, that's page three to a look at the membership of the Task Force on Women be expanded to include adequate representation of young people with contemporary female consciousness. We would be amending that to bring in an equal number of women, men and women. The substitute has been made and seconded. Is that discussion.

Presbyterian. I'll tell you in a minute. I need your help.

The question has been raised as to whether or not an amendment on an amendment that changes a recommendation can be added at this point without it would require a motion to reconsider.

Is there a motion to reconsider the entire report? No. You can reconsider this idea or excuse me, is there a motion to reconsider this item? Is there a second call for a two thirds vote all in favor of reconsidering?

This item will say I posed no a little bit defeated. The matter before us now is the entire report and the adoption of the recommendation. Are you ready to vote?

Microphone one to moderator Richard Grue here in Aberdeen, Presbyterian. I'd like to call for order of the.

I mean, we don't vote on.

We've been doing well. I would trust, Mr. Moderator, that we're about ready to conclude this matter and we would be in the spirit of this motion for the call, for the order of the day if we did accept the report and proceed.

May I put the vote, Madam Commissioner? Are you ready to vote on the report as a whole and adopt the recommendation microphone debit card playing Presbyterian.

There's one point that I'd like to clarify, and this is not this is number six on page twenty five two.

I feel that this statement that is made is kind of derogatory and I feel that a position on some of these committees should be dealt with more by the quality of the person, whether he's qualified to do this job rather than just because the person put on it as a woman. Therefore, I'd like to urge somebody to get up and amend this motion and add the word qualified so that the statement would read the 180 second General Assembly 1970 request future moderators to appoint a significant significant numbers of qualified women to all the committees or commissions for which the moderator is responsible for the writer with the moderator.

I have conferred with a number of moderators in connection with the appointment of committees and commissions and I have not known one yet who would appoint any member of the committee or commission simply because she was a woman. If she would not call me.

And I'm ready to put the question all in favor of receiving the report and adopting the recommendations with the I posed. No, thank you very much.

Mr. Bimba, the moderator yesterday, the General Assembly also took action to set aside 10 minutes of this evening's docket to hear Mrs. Arthur Vazquez to speak on behalf of the women's liberation movement. Chairman of the Standing Committee on Conference, I introduce to you, Mrs. Vazquez, and ask you, Mr. Moderator, to recognize her and give her the privilege of the floor for ten minutes.

My time is so short, perhaps I better begin while my women are still coming. We are representatives of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. There are thousands of us here in the city of Chicago, there are many thousands more of us across the country. We hope some of our sisters are sitting in the audience before we have come here as women to express solidarity with other oppressed groups, some of which have come before you at this assembly and some of which have not. We came to this assembly to work with our sisters in the United Presbyterian Church. We were not allowed to speak when our sisters gave their report. As is traditional, this church has attempted to separate women from each other. We will not be separated.

We are beginning to understand that this Society and this church will respond only when women unite, freedom will not be given. Yesterday, the Task Force on Women gave its report. That report confirms again that all the women are 51 percent of the population of this country. We are a political minority group. Women's liberation has developed out of an understanding that women are being oppressed and exploited as housewives, as workers and as Christians. From the time we are born, we are taught to be passive and accommodating or use of a variety of roles from which to choose. Every little girl understands her future as, first of all, belonging to someone as a wife and the mother of his children.

We do not provide adequate alternatives to this role, women who do not marry and raise children are made to feel incomplete. Mothers who want to use their talents and creativity outside the home face repeated obstacles and are made to feel guilty. The church is a microcosm of society. It reinforces traditional male and female roles. The family is the basic unit within the church. Yesterday, as tonight, we heard last year when our sisters described our servant role as a housewife, unpaid labor. Our economy could not survive without our unpaid labor in the home. Every other necessary social function is remunerated. What about such absolutely necessary functions as food service, laundry, housekeeping and child care? Housewives perform these tasks without pay. Domestics perform these tasks for very very low pay. Many of you could not be here without someone caring for your children at home. Women who work outside the home are regarded as a reserve labor force. During World War Two, women were needed as workers and were hired. Factories provided childcare. When men returned from the war, child care facilities were closed. The social norm was once again. A woman's place is in the home.

Although many women now work outside the home.

We are concentrated in the lowest paying jobs. For our work, we receive less than men even when we are doing the same job. As Christians, you expect women to serve the church. Women are the slaves of the church. Women raise money, serve as mistresses to some of you delegates at this convention.

We arrange flowers, serve dinners, teach Sunday school, pour coffee, sing in the choir, and care for children while men attend conventions like this. If you will be quiet, I will continue. Your behavior is very characteristic of the kind of attention that women receive.

Precisely.

Finally, men make decisions. We understand that slaveholders will not willingly step aside and their slaves demand equal status. We understand that you will laugh until we have enough power to force you to take us seriously. We recognize that men who suffer from the oppression of women and the stereotyping of roles. Men also are socialized into roles and thus are not free in their development. Until the oppression of women is eliminated, men will also be limited in their attempt to find fulfillment. Our goal is the creation of a free and just society in which every individual has the opportunity to fulfill himself or herself. We have watched the General Assembly compartmentalize the concerns of women. We are human beings, not objects whose problems can be broken down into separate categories. Nor will we allow our lives continually to be referred to committee. The issue of abortion is handled by church and Society the question of equal employment by church and raise the child care issue by the Standing Committee on Women. And yesterday we heard one man suggest that the question of the equality of women as a priority be referred to the long range planning committee. The church is an integral part of society, no longer cannot hide from the oppression it has condoned and supported, we will be here to challenge, to make the man. We will not allow you to affirm the status quo by silence. We will achieve our liberation and the liberation of all groups in this Society.

We have heard many prayers this week.

Now we would like to offer our own I am a woman. I am every woman, wherever women are suffering, I am there, wherever women are struggling. I am there wherever women are fighting for their own liberation.

I am there. I am at the bedside of the woman giving birth screaming in labor. I am with the woman selling her body in Vietnam so that her children may eat. I am with the woman selling her body in the streets of America to feed the habit she has acquired from her boyfriend. I am the woman who never sees the light outside of her own kitchen. I am the woman who never sees the light outside of the factory. I am the woman whose fingers are stiff from typing legs ache from the high heels that she must wear to please her boss. I'm the groupies that follow the rock band. What monstrous liars convince them that this is their liberation. I am the woman bleeding to death on the kitchen table of a quack abortionist. I am the woman answering the endless questions of the inquisitive caseworker and I am with the caseworker.

With dreams of making a new social order have long been smothered in bureaucracy, the endless form, the racism of their superiors. And I'm the beauty queen painting her face and spraying her hair with poison. I am with the black prostitute, straightening her hair and making her skin. I am with the young child for whom an apron is the only thing she has been taught to dream of. I'm at the hospital where a beaten child is being treated for wounds caused by a mother driven by desperation, past Phanatic, past compassion. I am with the forty five year old file clerk raped and strangled in her one room walkup, I am with all women.

I am with all women, and our struggle grows.

I'm with the Vietnamese guerrillas fighting for the right to control their country. I am with the women in Ireland living on the streets of Beirut with their children because their houses have been burned or they have been evicted. I'm with the contacts in Latin American city, arranging supplies for the guerrillas, hearing the secret police in every footstep. I'm with the welfare mothers in New York, Hartford and Wisconsin who will not be turned away by the indifferent legislature. And I'm with the airline steward is fighting to retain their job after they reach 30, the market value has decreased by and with the with respect to Wall Street and the bridal fairs and the beauty contest. And I am with women struggling everywhere.

I'm with the women in the church is struggling there for their liberation.

I am there where women are too beaten down to fight.

I will be there and we will take strength together, everywhere where we will have a new world, a just world, a world without oppression and degradation.

I recognize the commissioner's microphone sic AutoReader.

My microphone moderator, Al Hayat and the president, Cleveland, I am very disturbed over the lack of courtesy that we have shown these women who came here tonight. I think that we owe them an apology. I think we owe them more than that. The women who came here came because they had a very deep concern about a subject that means a great deal to them. Why is it that we do not take them seriously? We seem to take the Spanish American people thinking people seriously when they came and present their concerns. We certainly took the black people who are here a few moments ago. Seriously, I think we ought to show a lot more respect to the serious intent of the women's liberation movement. Thank you.

I recognize Mr. Phillip Bimbo, a continuation of the report on conference.

Microphone eight, the moderator, yes, I believe that was one of the finest prayers that we've heard at this General Assembly or any other General Assembly I've been at. I'd like to see it printed.

Well, I ask that young lady, if she wrote it, that she walked by me and she said, no, it's in the play entitled Everywoman.

I'm not familiar with that. But you can find it there. Microphone nine. Yes.

Brian Becker, youth advisory delegate from Tennessee Valley, Presbyterian. I like to comment on something. As a man from the microphone number six, I believe it was commented on. Yes. And that's the kind of fear on the part of the male delegates here and also many of the women of the threatening nature of this kind of thing, challenging the roles that have been established for many centuries. Yes, I think it's time for us to consider that maybe these roles are dehumanizing roles and we need to look at them seriously and not with the kind of ethical attitude that prevails here tonight. Thank you. Thank you.

I recognize the commissioner. Microphone seven, Pat Foreston, Pittsburgh Presbyterian Youth Advisory delegate Pat, I think is not quite Livewell. Step up a little closer, please.

I'm in total sympathy with the women who are fighting for equal opportunity, but there's one point in what they said that I reacted to and I'd like to get maybe a reaction from the floor. The commercials are trying to convince women that housework is a drudgery, that working in the house is a chore that they should rebel against. But I wonder if we can't do something like that out of love. We have a family, and I know personally my mother loves raising me. And I don't know, I think that the women ought to take this kind of path out of love. The men don't get paid for painting the house and everyone has to do something out of love for the other person. I feel this is just one of the things that comes automatically.

The moderate within the assembly, a willingness to spend some time talking. I want you to know that we have a heavy docket ahead of us. You may be becoming impatient and weary before we adjourn. I'm prepared to recognize every person at the microphone if you think that what you have to say is significant.

Microphone five, I would like to share with you something I've been going through since I've been at this this this assembly. My wife has had an accident. She's in the hospital. She was operated on yesterday. And her plea to me is, Bill, stay with it and don't come home. I'm all right. You stay there. It's important to stay there. So she's here with me. And then a little bit of other thing with me, too. It just so happens that yesterday I became a grandfather for the first time. And and and I'm just wondering if the recommendation of the women is that I now stay home and help bring that baby out while the granddaughter goes out to work or I'm being facetious there, but there is a thing that the women can go home that I'm sure the men aren't quite capable of doing this. I don't feel I'm capable of doing that yet.

Bill will remember you and our prayers.

I know, I know you're not being facetious, but I thank you very much because it is serious.

The microphone and the microphone, one of our typical Hylan, the speaker objected to being not included in the report on women. As a member of that committee, I spoke that she should be should have been included on the report of the Standing Committee on Women and the women of the committee voted them out of their report.

Microphone three.

Mr. Moderator, I would just like to give the address of where copies of the prayer that I read can be Bless Your Heart, Do it. It's called Every Woman and just just request that. And the address is twenty eight. Seventy five.

Westermann She'arim a K. Yes, thank you. What's in it.

And it's in Chicago and that is the headquarters of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. And is there their course.

Is there a clock?

One dollar, thank you. Thank you.

Microphone seven. Mr. Moderator, my microphone giant Presbyterian. I move the order of the day.

You put it to all those who are in favor of the order of the day will say, I know.

So the moderator, will you now recognize Mr. Bimba to conclude the report? Indeed, I will.

You may begin to get some idea of the enjoyment that we've had in our committee meeting.

This is a portable microphone. Yes, Mr. Moderator. All right, it's just an observation that he got out of order, Mr. Commissioner.

We voted the order of the day and then I must be out of the water just to say that the press, when they report that prayer, don't call it a prayer. It's a beautiful statement. I'm 100 percent for it. It's not a prayer. Thank you.