Posted on 03/22/2021 5:00:43 AM PDT by Theoria
The Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether one of the last sex-based distinctions in federal law should survive now that women can serve in combat.
A government ad urging young men to register for the draft packs a lot of stereotypes into 30 seconds. A mother, drying dishes in her kitchen, nags her son, who has just turned 18, to “just do it now before you forget.”
Her son, skinny and squeaky, pulls out his phone, registers and is transformed into a buff, deep-voiced adult. “Johnny!” the mother exclaims, while his little sister looks on in amazement. “You’re a man!”
Since 2016, women have been allowed to serve in every role in the military, including ground combat. Unlike men, though, they are not required to register with the Selective Service System, the government agency that produced the ad and maintains a database of Americans who would be eligible for the draft were it reinstated.
Almost all other sex-based distinctions in federal law have been eliminated, in no small part because of the pioneering work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who litigated women’s rights cases in the Supreme Court before she joined it. But the requirement that only men must register for the draft remains.
The court will soon decide whether to hear a challenge to the requirement, in language that could have been drafted by Justice Ginsburg when she ran the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Not totally unlike how girls first won the right to compete in boys’ sports—and now boys and young men have taken over girls’ and young women’s sports.
If they redid the draft today 90% would not show up.
The NYT dares to talk about the Constitution?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Puny journalism majors.
No. But it will if the ERA is passed.
Why not? But it will be interesting, to say the least, to see how ‘they’ will find ways to rail against it.
I guarantee you that if ‘we’ started advocating for equality at the draft board, the Left would instantly rise up in unison against it in toto, rather than permit the logical but unpopular thing to be done.
What a stupid question. Only leftist lunatics like the NY Slimes writers would ask such am idiotic question.
WOMEN NO MORE BELONG IN COMBAT - THE ULTIMATE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS SPORTS - THAN TMALE TRANSGENDER FREAKS BELONG IN FEMALE SPORTS COMPETITIONS.
I think the only option the Left will have is to demand to END THE DRAFT. See how that works out for them? The Left are destroying our country.
Wait, the NYT gives one iota bout the Constitution?! LMAOGTFO.
Who benefits from instilling this kind of national antipathy permeating our fighting-age citizens? China.
I'm betting that's not a coincidence.
When one of my daughters was turning 18 she asked about registering. I looked it up and I believe I found something that said it was illegal for a female to register. She said that wasn’t right because women can serve too (she wanted to).
Register illegal aliens for the draft.
Can a person avoid the draft by identifying
as a female with a penis?
There is no draft, and there never will be.
It’s not about registering. It’s about a lottery which might again arise.
Illegals already have to register. There is almost no exemption if you are a male, and 18 to 25.
I don’t think there has ever been a case insisting “X is unconstitutional because group Y is _not_ compelled to involuntary action, and the constitutional solution is to compel Y,”
90% wouldn't qualify! Today's youth are drug addled, obese, and addicted to video games and social media. You try to put them through an obstacle course or teach them how to shoot, and you'll break them.
These idiots just keep boxing themselves in. I say let them continue.
A moot point because there will be no draft. Draft registration continued after the last draft ended “just in case”, but now it continues due to bureaucratic inertia.
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