Barbara Boxer dug into her "mouldy oldies" and pulled out this hackneyed speech for her evidently clueless audience, which is clamouring for legislators to dig up and pass the [gasp!] Equal Rights Amendment:
"Elections have consequences, and isn't it true those consequences are good right now?" Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked a mostly female crowd yesterday at a news conference, as the audience cheered. "We are turning this country around, bit by bit, to put it in a more progressive direction."
The amendment consists of 52 words and has one key line: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." That sentence would subject legal claims of gender discrimination to the same strict scrutiny given by courts to allegations of racial discrimination.
One might gently ask, "what colour is the sky in your world, m'dears?" Perhaps these women have missed the body count attached to thirty years of "progressivism," the raunchy culture in which girls are souped-up and ready to play in equal numbers with boys (whether in the bedroom or lacing up locker rooms decorated on the Title Nine dime), the fact that boys are lagging behind in schools across the country (for one reason or another), the fact that women outnumber men in many distinguished university departments across the fruited plain, or the fact that quotes -- spoken or unspoken -- already have given women a leg up, a corner office, and a hefty advantage in corporations nationwide.
Why it may be a joke is that the wording: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" may be code words for men who want to be treated fairly, or it may be a game playing into the hands of the transgendered or otherwise non-hetero poplulation.
This cannot be serious -- an early April Fool's prank...?
UPDATE: Call me slow. Call me dense. It appears to be an end-run around possible legislation that in the future will limit abortions. These ERA's are attached to state constitutions where possible to negate such limitations, and it would do so on the national level if the Supreme Court ever reversed all or part of Roe v. Wade. NRTL has the scoop. God bless those stalwart and vigilant souls who stay up to combat this stuff!
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