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Post by The Inspector on Jan 1, 2020 11:44:33 GMT -5
In the past, Virginia "fought against desegregation ... fought against interracial marriage ... fought against women’s right to vote,” said Jennifer Carroll Foy, chief patron of the House ratification resolution who is also a member of the black caucus and one of the first women admitted to the historically all-male Virginia Military Institute. “And it is only poetic justice that now we stand on the right side of history and finally give women their full constitutional equality.”
Why women vote to be treated as less then men, I do not understand.
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Post by nkat on Jan 1, 2020 12:18:01 GMT -5
About time!
Nkat
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Post by tnthomas on Jan 1, 2020 15:53:05 GMT -5
Wow, I thought that the ERA was ratified back in the '70s. I seriously underestimated the tenacity of the Forces of Darkness to drag their feet and continue to fight constitutional representation for all.
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Post by chinadoll1981 on Jan 1, 2020 18:30:46 GMT -5
We live in male dominated society.... ERA represent threat to that status
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Post by rebecca2013 on Jan 1, 2020 19:24:39 GMT -5
We live in male dominated society.... ERA represent threat to that status Sing it sister!!!! |
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Post by helen on Jan 2, 2020 9:47:00 GMT -5
Being 'ladylike' is still held in high esteem by Virginians. Of both sexes. Ladies look to the gentlemen to take care of them. Think Melanie in Gone With the Wind.
Now what's the excuse for all the other states?
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Post by birdgal on Jan 2, 2020 16:01:39 GMT -5
Ignorance? Sexism?
Just because women look to men to take care of them, doesn't mean men will do it.
If you want something done the best way to get it done is to do it yourself.
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Post by smitty45 on Jan 2, 2020 17:03:24 GMT -5
Time to put the ole boys out to pasture. Virginia pledges to pass the ERA? uhm,,, in 2020? WTF? I guess that part of the country still uses candles to see in the dark.
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Post by birdgal on Jan 2, 2020 17:45:39 GMT -5
Smitty, lol!
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Post by helen on Jan 2, 2020 18:31:20 GMT -5
Time to put the ole boys out to pasture. Virginia pledges to pass the ERA? uhm,,, in 2020? WTF? I guess that part of the country still uses candles to see in the dark. Careful now. I can talk about 'em because I are one but others need to be nice. We're also easily offended.  |
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Post by smitty45 on Jan 2, 2020 18:39:18 GMT -5
Time to put the ole boys out to pasture. Virginia pledges to pass the ERA? uhm,,, in 2020? WTF? I guess that part of the country still uses candles to see in the dark. Careful now. I can talk about 'em because I are one but others need to be nice. We're also easily offended.  |
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Post by rebecca2013 on Jan 2, 2020 19:26:01 GMT -5
Ignorance? Sexism? Just because women look to men to take care of them, doesn't mean men will do it.e If you want something done the best way to get it done is to do it yourself. Damned tootie!  |
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Post by smitty45 on Jan 2, 2020 20:26:45 GMT -5
Ignorance? Sexism? Just because women look to men to take care of them, doesn't mean men will do it. If you want something done the best way to get it done is to do it yourself. In today's society, woman don't need men to take care of them,, in any way, shape or form. They should be with men because they want to, not because they need to. But, men do like being needed. open the pickle jar, ya know  |
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Post by Kady on Jan 8, 2020 23:10:24 GMT -5
Justice Department Backs GOP Effort To Block Equal Rights Amendment Source: huff post 01/08/2020 01:08 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago The war over women’s equality is just getting going, and it’s going to be bruising with the Trump administration already signaling its stand against the ERA. UPDATE ― 6:06 p.m. EST Wednesday: The Trump administration’s Department of Justice made it clear that it opposes the Equal Rights Amendment. There’s a constitutional showdown heating up over equal rights for women, somehow still a contentious issue in 2020. That’s because the Equal Rights Amendment, which passed Congress in 1972 and would amend the Constitution to give women equal standing under the law, is on the verge of ratification. Within the next few weeks, Virginia is expected to become the 38th state to ratify the ERA, clearing the Constitutional threshold for ratification, which is three-fourths of the states. Already, Republicans are in court trying to block the ERA’s inclusion in the Constitution. At the end of December, three GOP attorneys general filed a suit in a federal court in Alabama to block the ERA’s ratification, arguing that it’s not constitutional. On Tuesday, activists at the women’s rights group Equal Means Equal and the young women’s group Yellow Roses filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court, seeking to make sure the amendment makes its way into the Constitution after Virginia ratifies, pushing back on the arguments in the GOP lawsuit................. Read more: www.huffpost.com/entry/equal-rights-amendment-constitution-ratification-lawsuit_n_5e1601c4c5b66361cb5e1e65 |
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