Oops! GOP Rep's Gotcha Amendment On Drafting Women Actually Passed

[KamaAina]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duncan-hunter-introduces-gotcha-amendment-and-it-passes

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) did something a little unorthodox for lawmakers Wednesday. During a House Armed Services Committee hearing, he offered an amendment he didn't actually want to support.

The amendment required women register for the draft....

Hunter is deeply opposed to women in combat. Earlier this year he said the efforts of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to open up Marine combat positions for women made him a "a greater threat to the Marine Corps than ISIS.” Hunter seemed to want to use his amendment on drafting women to force the issue, hoping other lawmakers would finally see the light. ...

Unfortunately for Hunter, a lot of Members on the committee thought requiring women to sign up for the draft was a pretty good step forward on the equality front. The amendment passed 32 to 30. There are currently 12 women serving on the committee.

Rep. Nelson Muntz (D-Springfield) commented:

[villager]

1. Unfortunately, this is one of those "fake progressive victories," if the uses of "cannon fodder"

...remain unchanged.

Kinda like having female CEOs. Great that the glass ceiling is shattered, and all, but if the corporations are still destroying the planet at the end of the day...

...what, actually, is different?

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Who said this was a progressive victory? ... We STILL have the draft.

[villager]

4. It's viewed as a triumph for "equality," when the rampant inequalities of society remain.

I have no particular greater need to see women die in Dick Cheney's wars than I do to see men.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Viewed as a triumph for "equality," by whom ...

certainly, not anyone on the left.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. That's exactly how ...

Gender became a protected class under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.