Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "'She Said It Should Start All Over Again': Chuck Grassley Cites RBG On Equal Rights Amendment" video.

  1. Yes, that’s a wonderful statement, BUT so many legal scholars will note that it was written when only wealthy, WHITE, property-owning MEN were considered citizens, and therefore did not include black people, Native Americans or women. That’s why we had to have an amendment that allowed women to vote, a Civil Rights Amendment, and now need an Equal Rights Amendment (I’m not aware, at this time, of a Native American Rights Amendment, but, if we don’t, we should). Unfortunately, there are several schools of thought on what every word in the Constitution means, and what it meant to the Framers when they wrote it. And therein lies the problem; they often can’t come to an agreement on many of the amendments that come before Congress. This video, when you compare it to another from Forbes where Dick Durbin is speaking and questioning a witness who gives completely opposite opinion on the same question regarding the deadline in the ERA, amply displays the problems with legal opinions. If it were as easy as that introductory statement you cited, the Equal Rights Amendment would have been put into the Constitution one hundred years ago when it was first proposed before Congress, or, at minimum, fifty years ago when it was approved by Congress and sent to the states for ratification (and I personally remember that one). Also unfortunate is the fact that so many (mostly) men in Congress just don’t want to see women be equal, period, especially when you add in their religious views (that also are NOT supposed to factor in our legislative process) because that would mean that women would have a right to reproductive healthcare, and that’s just a bridge too far for them. Sad, maddening, but true.
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