NOW responds to Scalia's comments about the 14th Amendment

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"We are way past due for a constitutional amendment explicitly acknowledging women's rights in the United States," says O'Neill. "Nothing less will do, as long as sexists like Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia feel completely justified interpreting women's rights as unprotected in the U.S. Constitution."

E-mail from them today.


Pretty much sums it up.

[Lint Head]

1. IMPEACH SCALIA NOW!

and roberts too

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2. I could think of two others

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3. I think they're right.

It's time to push an Equal Rights Amendment to shut up blowhards like Scalia.

[Blue Meany]

4. Let's pass a lawing saying that for all legal purposes corporations are female. n/t

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5. My Irony meter broke

Didn't Cons used to say that the ERA was unnecessary because of the Fourteenth?

Amendment XIV, Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Now they're arguing that 'all persons' really means all <male> persons? :wtf:

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