April 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Jason is 13 and wants to date his male 21-year-old student-teacher. If the "LGBT" Equality Act passes through Congress, the age of consent barrier may fall and allow him to do so.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/democrats-equality-act-opens-the-door-to-legalized-pedophilia.-heres-how
Perhaps by now you've heard of the so-called "Equality Act," a sweeping bill that would declare homosexuality and gender confusion to be federal civil rights equivalent to race, religion, national origin, biological sex, and so on.
This wicked bill, H.R. 5, right now has 240 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Nancy Pelosi has pledged to bring it up for a vote in late spring or early summer.
Equal rights ratification of Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress on March 22, 1972 and sent to the states for ratification. In order to be added to the Constitution, it needed approval by legislatures in three-fourths (38) of the 50 states. By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment.
Has your state ratified the ERA? If they have, congratulations!
Has your state NOT ratified the ERA? Please contact your state legislators and urge them to support the Equal Rights Amendment, and bring it to the floor for a vote.
What else can I do? You can contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to support legislation to remove the original deadline assigned to the ERA. In the House of Representatives it is HJ Res 38
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/38?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HJ+Res+38%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1 )
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/38?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HJ+Res+38%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1 )
Senate SJ Res 5.
H.J.Res. 79 - Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
Jury rules against dad trying to save his 7-year-old from gender ‘transition’
Update: Judge Kim Cooks has ruled that James' parents will have joint conservatorship over him. Read more by clicking here.
DALLAS, Texas, October 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A jury in Dallas, Texas has ruled against Jeffrey Younger, the father who is trying to protect his seven-year-old son, James, from chemical castration via a gender “transition.” This means James’ mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas, will be able to continue “transitioning” him into “Luna,” and now has full authority to start him on puberty blockers and eventually cross-sex hormones.
The jury’s decision likely means that Mr. Younger will be required to “affirm” James as a girl, despite his religious and moral objections, and will also be forced to take a class on transgenderism.
A brief history of ratification in the states
The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress on March 22, 1972 and sent to the states for ratification. In order to be added to the Constitution, it needed approval by legislatures in three-fourths (38) of the 50 states.
By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment.
In 1978, Congress voted to extend the original March 1979 deadline to June 30, 1982. However, no additional states voted yes before that date, and the ERA fell three states short of ratification.
The 15 states that did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment before the 1982 deadline were:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
Since formulation of the "three-state strategy" for ratification in 1994, ERA bills have been introduced in subsequent years in one or more legislative sessions in ten of the unratified states Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia( JUST 11/5/19 TOOK BOTH HOUSES IN 26yrs).
Between 1995 and 2016, ERA ratification bills were released from committee in some states and were passed by one but not both houses of the legislature in two of them.
In Illinois, the House but not the Senate passed an ERA ratification bill in 2003, while the Senate but not the House did so in 2014. In five of the six years between 2011 and 2016, the Virginia Senate passed a resolution ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, but the House of Delegates never released a companion bill from committee for a full vote on the House floor.
On March 22, 2017, 45 years to the day after Congress passed the ERA, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify it.
On May 30, 2018, Illinois became the 37th state.
ERA bills have also been introduced in the legislatures of Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
Learn more about the history of the Equal Rights Amendment here:
- Nebraska: March 15, 1973
- Tennessee: April 23, 1974
- Idaho: February 8, 1977
- Kentucky: March 20, 1978
- South Dakota: March 5, 1979
Can a state legally rescind their ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Article V of the Constitution speaks only to the states’ power to ratify an amendment but not to the power to rescind a ratification. All precedents concerning state rescissions of ratifications indicate that such actions are not valid and that the constitutional amendment process as described in Article V allows only for ratification.
For example, the official tally of ratifying states for the 14th Amendment in 1868 by both the Secretary of State and Congress included New Jersey and Ohio, states which had passed resolutions to rescind their ratifications.
Also included in the tally were North Carolina and South Carolina, states which had originally rejected and later ratified the amendment. In the course of promulgating the 14th Amendment, therefore, Congress determined that both attempted withdrawals of ratifications and previous rejections prior to ratification had no legal validity.
Therefore, it is most likely that the actions of the five states — Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee — that voted to rescind their ratification of the ERA between 1972 and 1982 are a legal nullity.
116th Congress
Two different types of ERA legislation have been introduced in the current session of Congress:
- Traditional legislation to ratify the ERA by the Constitution's Article V ratification process, and
- "Three-state strategy" legislation to remove the time limit on the ERA's ratification process and declare it complete when three-fourths (38) of the states ratify, thereby retaining the existing 35 state ratifications as viable.
Traditional legislation
Senate: Senate Joint Resolution 15 (S.J. Res. 15)
Lead sponsor: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Introduced March 27, 2019; Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced March 27, 2019; Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Text:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:
“Article —
“ Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
“ Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
“ Section 3. This article shall take effect 2 years after the date of ratification.”
Click HERE to read the bill, and see who has signed on as a co-sponsors.
House of Representatives:
House Joint Resolution 35 (H.J. Res. 35)
House Joint Resolution 35 (H.J. Res. 35)
Lead sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Introduced January 29,2019; Sent to House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Introduced January 29,2019; Sent to House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Text:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:
“Article —
“ Section 1. Women shall have equal rights in the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
“ Section 2. Congress and the several States shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
“ Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.”.
Note: The wording of H.J. Res. 52 differs slightly from S.J. Res. 16 and the Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress in 1972.
In Section 1, the first sentence has been added to include women specifically and equally in the Constitution and to clarify the intent of the amendment to make discrimination on the basis of a person's sex unconstitutional. It is adapted from the text of Alice Paul's original 1923 Equal Rights Amendment. The second sentence is identical to the wording of S.J. Res. 16 and the 1972 ERA.
In Section 2, the addition of "and the several States" restores wording that was supported by Alice Paul but that was removed before the amendment's passage in 1972. It affirms that enforcement of the constitutional prohibition of sex discrimination is a function of both federal and state levels of government.
Click HERE to read the bill, and see who has signed on as a co-sponsors.
"Three-State Strategy" Legislation
Current efforts are in support of Congress removing the deadline originally assigned to the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, and extended in 1979 by members of Congress. Legal scholars have stated that if Congress has the legal standing to instate a deadline for a constitutional amendment, they also have the legal standing to remove a deadline. Legislation has been proposed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to officially remove the deadline for the ERA. If passed by both houses, legal scholars state that the ERA could potentially be ratified when the 38th state votes to ratify the amendment.
The potential legislation to remove the deadline was debated on on April 30, 2019, the first hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment on Capitol Hill in 36 years. Watch the video from the hearing below.
Senate: Senate Joint Resolution 5 (S.J. Res. 5)
Lead sponsor: Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Introduced January 25, 2019; Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Text:
This joint resolution eliminates the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on sex. The amendment was proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972. The amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.
Click HERE to read the bill, and see who has signed on as a co-sponsors.
House of Representatives: House Joint Resolution 38 (H.J. Res. 38)
Lead sponsor: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)
Introduced January 30 2019; Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Text:
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
That notwithstanding any time limit contained in House Joint Resolution 208, 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed to the States in that joint resolution shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.
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