[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[goldstategop]

Purely symbolic. The amendment expired in the 80s. It would be need to be passed by Congress again.

Good luck with it.

[a fool in paradise]

Already expired, but y’know “one weird trick” and all that

[kaehurowing]

Get ready for Christians to be rounded up and put in camps.

[Migraine]

Then what? Businesses move out of VA. Equal rights are already on the books. But special equal rights, where the protected special ones are more equal than others? Untenable can of worms. Move ‘em out!

[Da Coyote]

I never thought I’d regard VA as being even more degenerate than CA, IL and MA, but they really are trying.

Full *sshole marks there, VA.

[kaehurowing]

I remember the ERA being adamantly opposed on the grounds that it would authorize women to use the men’s restroom.

Now look where we are. Those oppositions seem so quaint.

[Steely Tom]

Why am I thinking of Helen Reddy and Bobby Riggs?

[Ingtar]

ummm. Then nothing, until Dims control more.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There’s also the issue that, during the original 7 year ratification period, a few states rescinded their ratifications of the ERA. Their plan to make Virginia the key 38th state to ratify, assumes that those states were not allowed to rescind their ratifications.

[blackdog]

How to celebrate? Murder some babies, followed by murdering nursing home patients. Then craft beer at the local LGBT Bar.

[stars & stripes forever]

ILLINOIS passed ERA two years ago. It was a symbolic vote.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

As I recall, the argument against the ERA was that it would eliminate laws that benefit women.

Of course the Equal Protection Act should already do that, but as long as men are going to take what the biased system dishes out, nothing is going to change for men regardless of whether the ERA is passed.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Then nothing.

There is a time limit.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s been dead for decades.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Do the VA 'Rats think there should be a Convention of the States now. If you count all the various states voting FOR variations of one over the last 230 years and don't count the states that overturned their votes for such you might well get to 38. The current movement for such, dating roughly to Mark Levin's book urging such, doesn't count all historical votes in their favor; I forget where their current tally sits. But if the 'Rats look to be getting anywhere with their post-mortem ERA push the CoS folks should start waving their hands. Over the years support for, and fear of, CoS movements have come from both side of the aisle. Much as they've love to shove through an ERA I doubt a majority of the left would take one at the price of having a CoS in this era. Whereas if there is a conservative majority for CoS now, of which I'm unsure, it at best is one favoring 'conservative' state motion counting, restricting votes to those similarly, if not identically phrased in ways intended to limit the CoS scope to our issues.

[Amendment10]

The Article V supermajority states failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by the deadline established by Congress, March 22, 1979. Correction welcome.

Equal Rights Amendment

Consider that the voting rights amendments are all the constitutional “equal rights” protections that the country needs imo.

Also, the Constitution implies a relatively short time frame for the states to ratify amendments proposed by Congress imo.

More specifically, elections have consequences. And if a new session of Congress no longer has 2/3 supermajority support of each House for a proposed amendment passed by Congress before an election, the Article V supermajority of states failing to ratify the proposed amendment before the election, then perhaps the proposed amendment should die.

A proposed, post-election amendment should die especially if it was a controversial election year issue like the expired, politically correct Equal Rights Amendment is.

Hypothetically speaking, a ratified amendment proposed by Congress needs to go back to Congress to pass another 2/3 supermajority vote by each House before being added to the Constitution. This would be a test-of-time safeguard against misguided, politically correct amendments to the Constitution.

Remember in November!

MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)

[Tennessee Nana]

I was living in South Carolina during the 1970s when the liberals were trying to get an ERA Amendment (equal rights for women) added to the Constitution... I think only 1 state more was needed at the time and SC was one of 3 possible states to cave...SC was considered the softest so the liberals converged on the state and campaigned and threatened for months...

The week before the SC legislature voted they floated candle light paper boats down the river in Columbia declaring the magic would work for them and a host of other witchery activities...we were neck deep in ‘true believer’ nuts...

However SC did not cave and so they never got the Amendment they thought they were entitled to and that for them was in the bag...

OH NOOOOOOOEZ the mothers and grandmothers of the snowflakes of 2016 were foiled...

The so called ERA Amendment was defeated...

I don’t know what this ...

[hinckley buzzard]

”Then what?” Then nothing. The ERA is a dead letter.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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