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12. My point, and apparently I made it badly

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #10)

Fri Jun 1, 2018, 12:14 PM

Jun 2018

The ambiguity of the present language of the ERA was used against adopting the ERA because someone might use that language to argue that it extended full rights and legal protections to gay people. This played to the prejudices of the public in the 1970s, both before and after 1973. That same argument can now be employed as a reason for ratifying an Equal Rights Amendment without changing the language of the 1923 original.

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The Equal Rights Amendment needs to be rewritten before it's ratified [View all] jmowreader Jun 2018 OP

any changes require approval by all the states already voting to approve nt msongs Jun 2018 #1

And by the Congress, which has to write the language spooky3 Jun 2018 #2

A good replacement might be... Tribalceltic Jun 2018 #3

A couple of things dsc Jun 2018 #4

That would mean starting over completely. No, thanks. pnwmom Jun 2018 #5

Don't throw away your work for good in the quest for perfect Lee-Lee Jun 2018 #6

We're not gonna get universal healthcare or basic income out of it, either. Orsino Jun 2018 #7

We should start a new one MuseRider Jun 2018 #8

Actually, that very subject came up in the 1970s gratuitous Jun 2018 #9

This isn't the 1970s jmowreader Jun 2018 #10

My point, and apparently I made it badly gratuitous Jun 2018 #12

That would require a separate constitutional amendment meow2u3 Jun 2018 #11