Equal Rights measure splitting lawmakers in Senate committee (Push to ratify ERA)

Arkansas Demorcrat Gazette ^ | 3/3/09 | BY SETH BLOMELEY AND MICHAEL R. WICKLINE

[PAR35]

The sponsor of a resolution to have Arkansas adopt a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment for equal rights for women says she's struggling to find enough votes in the face of strong opposition.

Senate Joint Resolution 12 would have Arkansas ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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[PAR35]

The ERA supporters have crawled out from wherever they hide, and are making a concerted effort to resurrect the Equal Rights Amendment while conservatives are distracted by other issues.

See also:

Kansas equal rights amendment considered http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/469992.html

[Dilbert San Diego]

The time to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired June 30, 1982, after it had been extended by Congress from March of ‘79.

35 states ratified the ERA, but several states rescinded their ratification after approving. If they make this effort to renew ratification, and get to 38, it will have to go to court to decide, #1, if the time period for ratification means anything or if amendments are in circulation forever, and #2, can states rescind ratification of an amendment after approving it.

[IronJack]

Did we just step into a time machine? Is this 1970 again? Cuz I gotta get my Nehru jacket back from the cleaners.

[PAR35]

Did we just step into a time machine? Is this 1970 again?

Let's see - Jimmy Carter Jr. in the White House; a push for the ERA; on the verge of a period of hyperinflation;

Bring back the miniskirt and we should be well on our way.

[Koblenz]

Did we just step into a time machine? Is this 1970 again? Cuz I gotta get my Nehru jacket back from the cleaners.

Pretty soon, the Dow will be at levels last seen when Carter was president!

[Arthur McGowan]

I don’t think Obama even wants to “remake” the United States into a socialist state.

I think he wants to KILL all the white people in America, through economic chaos, freezing, starving, terrorist attack, etc.—and is willing to see a lot of black people die, too, if that’s what it takes.

Just as he is happy to see most black pregnancies end in murder, just as long as white babies are murdered, too.

[IronJack]

So this must be the “change” Obamateur promised, huh? Ideas that didn’t work 30 years ago, and a philosophy that’s been discredited everywhere it’s been tried?