MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
Gee, maybe the fact that we have men walking around who think and speak like Rush Limbaugh is enough cause to pass this amendment..
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/the_eras_back_d.html
The ERA's back: Do you support efforts to add gender-equality to the Constitution?
The Equal Rights Amendment, a symbol of feminist aspirations in the 1970s, is back on the agenda as advocates pick up where they left off when the initiative came three states short of enactment in 1982.
The Washington Post reports this morning that Democrats have reintroduced the measure -- now known as the Women's Equality Amendment -- in both houses of Congress.
It's not a lengthy document. Here's what the relevant part of the Equal Rights Amendment says: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
NOW argues that the measure is still relevant. "After more than 200 years of living under the United States Constitution and despite all of the progress we have made, women continue to suffer discrimination in employment, insurance, health care, education, the criminal justice system, social security and pensions, and just about any other area you can name," the feminist group says on its website.
But Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh says the amendment isn't going anywhere.
"I think the universe of women that would support the ERA this time around is much less than would be intrigued by this in the early seventies when it first started. I'm sure they still got their radicals and these babes up in -- babes, I use the term loosely -- these women that live up there in the Pacific Northwest. You see them in airports with their two German shepherds to make sure you don't attack them, and you wouldn't anyway. Half of them shave their legs, half of them don't," Limbaugh said yesterday. "They're still out there, they probably vote for it and supported and so forth. You have a universe of people that's going to be really behind this, has shriveled out there, so to speak. They're just living in the past."
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/the_eras_back_d.html
The ERA's back: Do you support efforts to add gender-equality to the Constitution?
The Equal Rights Amendment, a symbol of feminist aspirations in the 1970s, is back on the agenda as advocates pick up where they left off when the initiative came three states short of enactment in 1982.
The Washington Post reports this morning that Democrats have reintroduced the measure -- now known as the Women's Equality Amendment -- in both houses of Congress.
It's not a lengthy document. Here's what the relevant part of the Equal Rights Amendment says: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
NOW argues that the measure is still relevant. "After more than 200 years of living under the United States Constitution and despite all of the progress we have made, women continue to suffer discrimination in employment, insurance, health care, education, the criminal justice system, social security and pensions, and just about any other area you can name," the feminist group says on its website.
But Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh says the amendment isn't going anywhere.
"I think the universe of women that would support the ERA this time around is much less than would be intrigued by this in the early seventies when it first started. I'm sure they still got their radicals and these babes up in -- babes, I use the term loosely -- these women that live up there in the Pacific Northwest. You see them in airports with their two German shepherds to make sure you don't attack them, and you wouldn't anyway. Half of them shave their legs, half of them don't," Limbaugh said yesterday. "They're still out there, they probably vote for it and supported and so forth. You have a universe of people that's going to be really behind this, has shriveled out there, so to speak. They're just living in the past."