An Amendment Resurrected
Ordinary Equality
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4.0 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.
Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.
To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:
- “Nevada Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment ... 35 Years After The Deadline” (Colin Dwyer * NPR * 2017)
- “Pat Spearman Testimony ERA” (C-SPAN * 2019)
- “The Equal Rights Amendment Can’t Be Defeated by Anti-Trans Scare Tactics” (Danica Roem and Kate Kelly * Teen Vogue * 2019)
- “I Don’t Have Equal Rights Under the Constitution -- Yet” (Alyssa Milano * CNN * 2018)
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| 0:00.0 | So when people ask me, you know, why I'm so passionate about the Equal Rights Amendment, |
| 0:06.3 | it's because I don't like people not having the opportunity to do just based upon what color they are |
| 0:13.6 | and the gender that they are and gender identity and because they have a different affectual orientation. |
| 0:20.4 | All of that stuff is junk. |
| 0:21.6 | It's junk because God doesn't put those kind of parameters on us. |
| 0:29.6 | You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property. |
| 0:42.6 | The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul |
| 0:48.2 | wrote the words that became ERA. |
| 0:50.8 | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. |
| 0:59.0 | So as we've launched today, remember, forward together, backward, never. |
| 1:05.0 | If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 1:09.0 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:13.1 | Do we want us? |
| 1:17.1 | No! |
| 1:18.1 | Today, the House of Representatives cleared a hurdle to make the Equal Rights Amendment the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. |
| 1:24.6 | The House voted to remove a deadline for states to ratify the amendment, |
| 1:27.7 | which would guarantee women the same legal rights as men. |
| 1:37.7 | Hi, I'm Kate Kelly, human rights attorney, feminist, and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| 1:44.6 | And this is ordinary equality. |
| 1:48.8 | So far, we've covered the Equal Rights Amendment's birth and death, and now it's time to talk |
| 1:53.7 | about its resurrection. |
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