Posted on 10/08/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by simpson96
"My name is Alyssa Milano, and I do not have equal rights under our Constitution. I have a three-year-old daughter named Bella. She does not have equal rights under the Constitution, either."
This is how I began my testimony at a Congressional shadow hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) just a few months ago. At that point, I didn't think it could be possible to feel more urgency about insisting that women be protected in our government's highest legal document, the US Constitution. I was wrong.
Now, as I watch Brett Kavanaugh's likely ascension to the Supreme Court, it feels like a new kind of violation, proving we need an Equal Rights Amendment so that our justice system has the tools to treat women equally under the law.
Our country has allowed men like Brett Kavanaugh to use our founding documents to preserve their power and privilege, while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions. That is because, for most of our country's history, the Constitution has treated anyone who is not a white, land-owning man to be a second-class citizen -- a legacy the document has yet to shed.
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I am not asserting that Brett Kavanaugh opposes constitutional equality for women and men, but then again, I do not know. And his actions, I do not trust.
What I do know -- what all of us have seen proven beyond a doubt -- is that our country's 200-plus-year history of subjugating women has come at a devastating price. In recent months, we've heard an outpouring of firsthand accounts about what life as a second-class citizen in this country is like.
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Make her equal... put urinals in the women’s restroom.
Ohh yes you do Alyssa. You have all the rights ...
to the kitchen to make me a samwich and then shut the hell up!
Ugh! Are they trying to dredge up that stupid ERA amendment again?
LMAO...the look on those 3 faces tell quite a tale
The left is delusional
” while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions.”
AND THERE IT IS, ladies and gentlemen... the mantra of the liberals and feminists.
PROTECTION from the CONSEQUENCES of their OWN ACTIONS.
Same rights that she wants and the DEMS/Liberals want. It was in the excerpt. Right there in her own words.
" protection from the consequences of their actions."
Abortion, hiring illegals, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, child abuse, deviant sexuality, murder.... you name it, they want PROTECTION from the CONSEQUENCES. For themselves, but not for you.
Never heard of this woman until four days ago....that’s what you get when you don’t watch CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc.....
The one of the right is the 'nursing home patient' face.
As a woman she has more contrived rights and special protected class privileges in this country than all men do.
So they are not equal because they don't get special treatment??
That’s the idea. The ERA was based on such laws. It’s a direct attack on the family, per the Marxist dogma of “abolition of the family”.
More like the “his dark powers are barely sustaining me despite my devotion to evil” face.
Dance, Monkey, Dance!
“...while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions.”
I’ve always been responsible for the consequences of my actions, and I’m a guy. Guessing she wants her own special rights under the Constitution?
She needs to find a nice guy and make him a sammich.
Give her a break. She has the same IQ as the cookie she is named after.
Alyssa, sweety, there is no right to get cast. I realize that you’re only getting one gig a year in non starring roles. Your last movie isn’t even breaking a million bucks. You are, to put it mildly, washed up. You’re a “D” list actress whose antics turn casting directors off. Your SAG card it more useful to jimmy locks than it is for getting roles. You’re in violation of
Global Rule Two: Dont be so wierd that you’re on the direct-to-video list. So yes, you have every right under the constitution. You’re just a would be has-been.
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