What Argument Against The Renewed ERA Could Feminists Face?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Aug 12, 2011 at 07:00:00 AM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/19712/if-the-new-era-catches-on-as-a-feminist-priority-a-likely-argument-against-itI wrote a slightly edited down version of this essay for Feministing that posted on August 10, 2011. I believe the ERA is a issue at the intersection of LGBT and women's equal rights.
What would one of the arguments against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) would likely be if serious community effort were now to be made to pass the amendment into law?
Recently Rachel Maddow ran a segment entitled Equal Rights Amendment Sees Renewed Interest on her MSNBC show. In the segment, she indicated that the ERA has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives {by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)} and the Senate {Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)} as a response to the recent Walmart decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
The plain language of the ERA, in the 1970's and now, is as follows:
