ERA Campaign Network --

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• 96% of American adults believe male and female citizens of the United States should have equal rights


• 88% believe the Constitution should make it clear that male and female citizens are supposed to have equal rights


• 72% believe that the Constitution of the United States does make it clear that male and female citizens are supposed to have equal rights [even though it in fact does not]."

Ted Kennedy is planning to reintroduce the Equal Rights Amendment on March 15. It's long overdue. I don't buy the argument that the 14th Amendment is sufficient. Our omission was intentional, but the founders hoped that as education and liberality grew, we would be given our proper representation. The time is Now.

In the words of Abilgail Adams:

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

We do most of the work for least pay. We raise children, maintain homes, working within them and without, with most of the burden and little of the benefit of our work. We are the poor. We are the victims of violence in our homes and in our towns. We pay taxes to a government that does not give us fair voice. We've never had a president. Bigots and elitists stand against us in Universities, in boardrooms, on the floor of the Senate and in the highest office in the land. Our children die in your wars, America. We're tired. It's time for us to be recognized as full and equal citizens. There's no room for negotiation here.