Put Women in the Constitution

On Jan. 6, 2011 Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D.-N.J.) stood with NOW and women's rights advocates outside the Capitol to call for putting women into the Constitution. Sign NOW's petition to stand with them: http://action.now.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3037.

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• NOW
• Terry O'Neill
• ERA
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Carolyn Maloney
• Robert Menendez
• Gwen Moore
• Feminst Majority
• Eleanor Smeal

[themaniusedtob]

i can see why ratings got taken off.. thumbs down to this BS video

[themaniusedtob]

so "persons" does not mean women too? then she says "until a man in power" *rolls eyes*.. I wonder what she thinks she is? a victim? she has power and plenty of money herself but all she wants 2do is manipulate the constitution so men in "power" and others could turn into her little feminazi drones to give her more funding $.. until men give up their power and hand it over to the all mighty NOW idiot president she wont be happy.. pff keep dreaming.. u have MORE rights then any man not less

[themaniusedtob]

so NOW feminist think women are not people?... she just wants more funding and extra cash in her pocket.

[brothamouzoune]

Go Scalia!

[era4allNOW]

Your misinterpretation of the constitution is as dangerous as Scalia's.

[era4allNOW]

...Clearly what is being said is that all persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens, and that no state shall interfere with their rights. If you need more detail in that, it is inferring that citizens have national rights, and the constitution will not allow states to interfere with those rights.

What Scalia said was that "persons" does not apply to women. Apparently we aren't people.

[era4allNOW]

....No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

[era4allNOW]

@gogonostop: have you actually read it? because that is not true at all. Here's the first section of the 14th amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside...

[Gogonostop]

O'Neill is strawmanning what Scalia said. The 14th amendment refers to the STATES, not the federal government ("no STATE shall... deny to any person the equal protection of the laws"). Scalia's assertion that the constitution doesn't outlaw discrimination by the federal gov't is a statement of fact, not an advocation of sexism. Scalia could just as easily, and correctly, have said that the federal gov't can discriminate against men. And he would have been right, because it can...and does.

[shanrodru]

Go Terry!