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.
That's OK. We in the US only have to hold off the tide until a significant number of the adopted/inseminated children of these "marriages" reach the age when they can begin to describe their experiences in their own words. That will probably solve the problem.
Society has learned these lessons before, and, after forgetting, will learn them again.
(steely)