kootchman
Here Jan… some more history. The ERA was a republican initiative … vehemently opposed by Democrats for years.
The Republican Party included support of the ERA in its platform beginning in 1940, renewing the plank every four years until 1980
The National Woman’s Party took the ERA to Congress in the 1920s, where Senator Charles Curtis, a future Vice President, and Representative Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.—Susan B. Anthony’s nephew, both Kansas Republicans, introduced it for the first time as Senate Joint Resolution No. 21 on December 10, 1923, and as House Joint Resolution No. 75 on December 13, 1923, respectively.
ERA was also opposed by Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers, who either contended that women needed government protection, that men did not or otherwise did not want the only labor protections abolished before they could be extended to men as well, as it would likely be a blow to unions and the movement for labor laws. (see that? JaN?)
Women and liberals are always trying to subvert the constitution. The ratification failed. That means after 10 years… ya start the process all over again. All 50 states have to vote on the issue again. That’s what the constitution says. Instead, the ERA advocates said ahhh “f—- the constitution (as they did in the First Amendment and the Catholic Church) all the yea votes count forever until they get the requisite three states. Course the map has changed and they know ERA will not pass in half the states now… it is losing ground. All but for that little clause that makes it toxic…. the same abuse Obama used….liberals look for hidden meanings and use legislation for their higher moral ends.
And that would be this….
“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”.
That is unacceptable. This is… American no longer trust the congress or the administration… because “appropriate legislation” is the open gate for special interest meddling and vote buying. We know that the commerce clause, gave these very same powers to congress and they have used it to ram legisltive agendas to pander ever since.
“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.”