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Its funny how everyone, females LGBTQ....., constantly complain about equal rights. Yet, no Female politician has ran on this topic to get the Amendment ratified.. Its been around for almost a century, constantly being evaluated, submitted for vote, pulled back etc etc.
So, explain to me why they want equal pay, and many other things, but not the ERA for women (basically all sexes).
Not one female politician would dare put in jeopardy her voting base.
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These women argued that the ERA would disadvantage housewives, cause women to be drafted into the military and to
lose protections such as alimony, and eliminate the tendency for mothers to obtain custody over their children in divorce cases.
Seems like the woman of today want to have their cake and eat it too......
Whenever I talk to my wife about equal rights, she said that's all bunch of bull. I asked to help me with building this Ikea bookcase. She said, you men are better at it and women like her can't build anything.
By 1970, notes the Congressional Research Service, “Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Nixon were all on record as having endorsed an equal rights amendment.”
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In 1972, both houses of Congress passed the amendment. It sailed through the House, picking up a 93.4 percent majority, and won a 91.3 percent majority in the Senate. Now it was up to the states to ratify it. It would need three fourths of the 50 states—38 in all—to become law.
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“Sensing a burgeoning conservative backlash to the social and cultural changes of the 1960s, [Phyllis] Schlafly rightly recognized that the rumbling discontentment of religious conservatives could grow into a powerful political movement
In short, ERA failed because of attitudes that today's society have long since rejected.
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She warned women that if equal rights were enshrined in the Constitution, the heterosexual world order would collapse. Morality would fall by the wayside and women would be at risk of losing their femininity and the opportunities presented by marriage, Schlafly said.
Tell me what's not homophobic, religion-only based morality about this. Well, you can add in the b.s.-infested "nature" arguments too. Society's moved on from this. ERA will eventually come about.
What rights do women not possess? Government does not grant us rights, remember?
That's the point - - it would be completely ceremonial at this point. In name, women have all rights now. Doesn't mean that in practicality there is true equality though.
A lot of it is due to expansionary court rulings regarding the 14th Amendment have pretty much eliminated any need for a separate amendment protecting women.
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