The Return of the Women's Equality Amendment

"I didn't plan on writing another column about feminism, but I keep discovering more examples of pernicious ideas the so-called "women's rights activists" are pushing on society. Last week, the Democrat-controlled Congress reintroduced the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which gained popular support in the 1970s but died when Americans found out what it actually entailed. Thirty years later, feminists in Congress seem to think we've forgotten.

The language of the ERA, now renamed the Women's Equality Amendment, is deceptively simple: "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." But the WEA has nothing to do with equality or rights. It is the tool radical feminists will use to make America a society that does not acknowledge gender."

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AshleyHerzog/2007/04/10/the_return_of_the_womens_equality_amendment