NotMAGA wrote:
I wasn't going to respond to you anymore today but I can't let this one go. Congress finally agreed to send the ERA to the states for ratification in 1972, but it was not ratified by the necessary number of states to be added to the Constitution.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109330/documents/HHRG-116-JU10-20190430-SD013.pdf
Why not? Because half our states are red and Republicans are not happy about the prospect of all Americans, especially women, having equal rights with their male compatriots.
Seems they will go to any lengths to make sure they don't.
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Kennedy, Hyde-Smith introduce resolution to stop Equal Rights Amendment from illegitimate ratification
Mar 16 2023
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in introducing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Resolution to recognize that Congress does not have the authority to deem the ERA as a ratified amendment to the Constitution.
The ERA Resolution is a check against an illegitimate effort, S.J.Res.4, that attempts undo the deadline that Congress set in 1972, when the amendment was sent to the states for ratification.
“Radical lawmakers cannot erase women or their rights from our Constitution. This attempt is legally and morally wrong and would unleash a Pandora’s box of harmful legal implications. Nor can they replace a deadline that passed long ago. This resolution makes clear what most of us already know: The deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has long passed and was rightfully rejected,” said Kennedy.
“The law and the facts outlined in this resolution are clear. Congress has no authority to go back in time to revive a failed constitutional amendment, which makes the current push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment wrong on its face. Beyond the illegitimacy of trying to resurrect the ERA, we cannot ignore the very serious effects adding the ERA to our Constitution today would have on abortion, religious liberty, protections for women, and more,” said Hyde-Smith.
Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) also cosponsored the resolution.
https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2023/3/kennedy-hyde-smith-introduce-resolution-to-stop-equal-rights-amendment-from-illegitimate-ratification#
I wasn't going to respond to you anymore today but... (
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OK I was very tired tonight and got a bit confused. It's not the end of the world for me.Truthfully I believe your reasons given for why it was not ratified is because your reason, just like you is FOS.
It was a woman who was most vocal against the Amendment because she feared it would remove protection for women. We see that fear brought to fruition today.
The one thing for certain that real women have in common with men is that both enjoy the company of real men. 😊