[aimhigh]

A friend insists the GOP should stay away from this issue.

Coward. Does the friend want the conservatives to cave on every issue?

[stars & stripes forever]

The issue is not going away. Canada just approved homosexual marriages....and the United States is next in line. There is a pending ERA bill in the Illinois Senate...which, if passed, would reactivate ERA.

35 states have already passed ERA, Illinois would be 36 with two more states to go. Wording in the bill indicates that the Constitutional Amendment time limit does not apply to ERA.