Removing the deadline is an unprecedented maneuver that seeks to bypass the rules of the amendment process. Feminist icon and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg explicitly stated that Congress must start again from the beginning in order to ratify the ERA. Not only has the deadline expired, but the majority of voters today were yet to be born or not of voting age at the time the ERA was moving through the states. Senator Lee pointed out that the deadline included in the original amendment was added as a compromise in order to get the votes to pass the ERA back in 1971. Deleting it in 2023 is an affront to the process then, as well as our rights to weigh in as citizens today.
It’s clear the ERA is even worse for women today than it was when originally proposed. This amendment allows biological men to legally usurp women’s rights. Access to women’s sports teams, women’s nursing rooms, and women’s domestic violence shelters (just to name a few) puts women’s privacy and safety in jeopardy. The Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020 changed the legal definition of sex in Title VII to include ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’(SSOGI), not just biological sex. Now males who ‘identify as female’ will be able to be considered women and gain protections put in place for females.
Unfortunately, the ERA’s negative impact does not stop there. The ERA will expand and mandate abortion access through tax-payer funding. This has already been done in Connecticut and New Mexico (N.M. Right to Choose/NARAL v. Johnson, Doe v. Maher). The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) even encouraged litigators to use the ERA to strike down restrictions on abortion such as parental consent laws. They also filed briefs in abortion cases in Hawaii, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut arguing that since an abortion procedure is only performed on women, that a state’s denial of taxpayer-funded abortion should be considered “sex discrimination” under their state ERA. Because a Constitutional Amendment has more authority than state laws, it will overturn every state-level pro-life protection and have the effect of nullifying the Dobbs decision.
ERA was a bad idea in the 1970s, but it is an even worse idea now because we have a female Supreme Court Justice who refuses to define “woman”. We have physicians who ignore biology and try to make males into females and make females into males. We have elementary school teachers who confuse children by teaching that gender is not binary but fluid. We even have a male assistant Secretary of Health who thinks he is a woman.
If ERA were in the U.S. Constitution, then males and females would be forced to be interchangeable in every situation. Women, girls, and anyone in a vulnerable situation would be harmed by eliminating the legal recognition and protection that males and females are biologically different from each other.
53 votes means there are at least 2 RINO votes for this garbage. Who are they?
The deadline was in the text of the original proposed Amendment. That was what the states voted on. They have to start all over again.
A do over won’t have the same language as TPTB will want to include the non-binaries (whatever that is).
The two (D) cretins who “represent” Virginia — Mark Warner and Tim Kaine — are impervious to concerns from the people of this state. They are totally in lockstep with Schumer.
House won’t pass it, leastways not by a two-thirds majority. States won’t pass it.
Why would we need an ERA when they can’t even define what a woman is anymore and anyone can claim they are a woman?
If anyone doubted it before, it’s now abundantly clear. We’re dealing with ‘60s and ‘70s “activists” grown old and determined to finally inflict their antiquated agenda on the United States before they croak.
And their indoctrinated and Prozac’d kids, and their propagandized and Adderalled kids are doing their best to help them.
It’s a joke resolution! If it passes, it will have no effect in law. Let those stupid idiots pass it and think they’ve accomplished something. It will accomplish nothing at law.
It will be a nullity, and and as everyone knows, the original equal rights amendment would never pass the states Today
If there is zero deadline for amendments and states are not allowed to withdraw their vote that basically means congress can amend the constitution any way they please and simply wait out the states.
COPIED FROM PRAYER POSTING FOR AMERICA, JUNE 15, 2022
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We now begin our prayers . . .Eph 6:18 . .
.”Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”
we confess our sins and repent, submitting to You, asking for Your will to be done, for Your protection and cleansing and forgiveness . . .
for all the saints, and salvation for all unsaved persons on Your and our hearts and minds and also for all in authority.
We submit ourselves to You, and resist Satan.
Now, Lord God, this here Norski and others joining in is ready to do battle in Your Name, believe.
Today and here, we are praying for and doing battle in Your Name for our country, which country here is the United States of America, begun as a Republic.
The Constitution as written was and is for a moral and religious people, Lord. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
We are gone away from You, Lord, and like Israel of old, have been and are still bowing down to other gods, which we have not known, and committing more and more sins, and are under judgement.
We ask Mercy and not Judgement, as of old.
The reason so many of us are beginning again finally to read the Old Testament (The other 3/4 of the Bible) is because it describes what happens when a nation - in this case Israel, and in our case, America - does this.
Help us to pray and do battle in the Name of Jesus, on the spiritual level, Lord, and do it as You want done.
So let us begin with the head, or the most visible person, President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
Lord God, this man, who is put forth to us as the duly and legally elected president of the United States of America, we do not believe to be such.
First of all, he was put in place by massive fraud. Forgive us, Lord, for having become lazy watchmen, careless, that did not shout warning.
Second, this man does not even appear to be Joseph Biden. Lord, he must be our judgement.
Women, nursemaids and flappers, surround and coddle him. Are we ruled over by unelected women now?
Third, this person appears to be cognitively impaired or drugged, or both. His mind appears to be not even his own. He is a puppet. Lord, who and what is speaking through this man’s mouth?
This is pathetic and disgusting, but we deserve this man, Lord. But please, we ask mercy and not what we deserve.
We confess our sins and those of our country. We repent, on our and our country’s behalf.
Now, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the power of his Blood, we bind and rebuke the strongman over all evil spirit powers operating in, above, around, and through the person or entity presented to us as President Biden, including all of his handlers, nursemaids, and puppeteers telling him what to do and say and sign. Over all Executive Orders this person or entity has signed. We loose into him the spirits of salvation, adoption, and repentance, that whomever he is, he recieves the Lord Jesus as his Savior, and receives all these blessings.
In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask for and loose heavenly angels to attack the strongmen and all evil spirit powers holding the elected officials of our nation captive, and ask that they attack all evil spirit powers, especially those whose mission is to destroy our nation, our hearts and minds for Jesus, our finances, our borders, our infrastructure, our energy, our armed forces and our churches, Lord God. And all the people hurt by those who are draining and dissipating us, and tearing apart our nation, and working to bring in a One World Government, Religion, centralized powers, death, and slavery.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.
How do you delete the time limit? Once it hit, the legislation is gone gone, not just sitting in a limbo!