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40 years after her Mormon excommunication, ERA firebrand Sonia Johnson salutes today’s ‘wonderful' women, says men ‘bore’ her

(AP file photo) Sonia Johnson is led away from an LDS temple by a police officer after she had chained herself to the gate during a pro-Equal Rights Amendment demonstration in Bellevue, Washington on Nov. 17, 1980. Johnson was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after publicly speaking in favor of the ERA.