Introducing: Ordinary Equality
Ordinary Equality
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🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be and why? |
| 0:05.1 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 0:08.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:13.9 | Hi, I'm Kate Kelly, Human Rights Attorney, Feminist, and host of a brand new podcast from Wonder |
| 0:20.3 | Media Network called Ordinary Equality. |
| 0:23.8 | Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. |
| 0:33.0 | On ordinary equality, we're telling the story of the birth, death, and recent resurrection |
| 0:38.6 | of the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| 0:43.6 | It's a story that includes the quote-unquote Founding Fathers, an army of Mormon housewives, |
| 0:52.7 | a cunning lawyer in housewife clothing, a disgruntled college |
| 0:56.2 | student bent on vindication, and a heroic black queer preacher from Nevada, and much, much more. |
| 1:03.4 | So what is the ERA? Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law. |
| 1:09.3 | Shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or by any state. |
| 1:13.6 | On account of sex. |
| 1:15.6 | On account of sex. |
| 1:16.6 | On account of sex. |
| 1:17.6 | What's so controversial about that anyway? |
| 1:20.6 | And why is it such a big deal? |
| 1:22.6 | It is no exaggeration to say that the ERA can and will change the course of our nation. |
| 1:28.5 | The only thing we're asking in the ERA is to acknowledge the fact that women are born equal |
| 1:34.1 | to men. |
| 1:35.4 | On ordinary equality, we'll talk about how women got left out of the Constitution to begin |
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