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Progressive4Life Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:09 PM
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It's been 83 years. Let's finally pass the ERA!
Contrary to what Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would have us believe, there is nothing in the Equal Rights Amendment about killing children or castrating men. In fact, here is the text in its entirety:
Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

Very clear, concise, and to the point, n'est-ce pas?

Please contact your elected officials, and tell them to once and for all write EQUALITY into the Constitution.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:10 PM
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1. I like it. Simple, already written up and guaranteed to be divisive
among the republicans.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:28 PM
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2. wimmin need to be doin' less mouthin' off and doin' more bakin' n' birthin
Wimmin don't need no stinnkin rights :sarcasm:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:29 PM
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3. Can we include a clause in the amendment to ban televangelism?
Oh wait... would that defeat the purpose of the amendment? :shrug:
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:32 PM
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4. But we're all pre-pregnant until menopause. You wouldn't want
to destroy the Homeland by not doing your duty as a woman. Heck, all you need to do is birth and nurse. Now, lest anyone think I'm serious please note that this is written with sarcasm. I've birthed and nursed a couple of times myself and have had a career. All women are capable of anything.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:33 PM
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5. No offense, but until the political climate changes, I'd like people
to believe that amending the Constitution is a near impossiblity.
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Progressive4Life Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 03:00 PM
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7. But it's still our duty to tell members of Congress what we think.
Defeatism plays right into the hands of the far right.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 03:06 PM
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8. I'm not advocating defeatism, just not giving the gay marriage-
flag burning amendment folks aid and comfort by suggesting that an amendment could actually be accomplished.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:50 PM
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6. I thought it was going to force all of us to use the same bathrooms.
That's the big argument against it that I remember. I can't possibly support something that will cause separate facilities to be banned.:sarcasm:

Oh, and women in combat. I remember them telling us that women might start getting killed in wars if the ERA were to pass. We certainly can't allow that to happen.:sarcasm:
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 03:17 PM
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9. I worked for the League of Women Voters during the last ERA battle
in Washington. You are correct about the women inthe military being one of the reasons that ERA was defeated. At that time, early 1980s, our national collective image of combat was the jungles of Vietnam. Women were just beginning to go to the service academies and into the all volunteer force in greater numbers. We've come a long psychic distance from that place today of course.

The other argument against the ERA was that it wasn't needed, since women were successfully challenging discriminatory laws under the 14th amendment, but that was because we had more progressive federal courts. Never mind the fact that the early suffragists tried the 14th amendment argument in federal courts to no avail, before going the route of a constitutional amendment.

The ERA failed when the needed 2 states for passage locked the amendment up in committees, thereby keeping it from going to the floor and, in the case of Illinois, changing the rule on the floor from a simple majority to a super majority to win passage.

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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 03:27 PM
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10. Fight is at the state level - visit these web sites
It only needs to be passed in 3 more states for ratification by Congress...

Focus on these states:

Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Utah
Virginia


http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/status.htm

ERA Resolutions have been introduced in the following states

Arkansas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Virginia

Sign the Petition and get involved here:

http://www.4era.org/index.html
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 03:57 PM
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11. i have walked holes into the soles of several pairs of shoes for that
amendment.

i believe it's the only way for the foreseeable future to protect women's rights.

women's privacy and roe will simply continuously be chipped away at.

women are not allowed the same equality as men -- with liberals i will simply stand on women's right to choose -- and it's past time we guarantee those rights.

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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 05:02 PM
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12. The ERA is really needed.
Edited on Sun Jun-25-06 05:03 PM by Odin2005
My only caveat is that it needs to be elaborated to prevent absurd things like maternity leave being stuck down because it would violate gender equality.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 05:10 PM
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13. Gee, only 83 years? What's the rush?
:sarcasm:
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