Friday, February 14, 2020

Equal Rights Amendment's Intentions HIJACKED By LGBTQ Movement

Socio-Political Journal


"The slogan in the 1970s was ERA Now. But what happens when it’s ERA later?"In this case, much later. Virginia’s purported ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment last month created a legal mess. Among the questions raised is whether the equality promised for two sexes would apply to the growing LGBTQ movement.
“ 'What is difficult in the case of the Equal Rights Amendment is that the words are essentially meaningless,” said Rob Natelson, who heads the Constitutional Studies Center at the Independence Institute. “The amendment is so poorly drafted and so general it’s fair to say it’s meaningless.”
"The amendment, which has been kicking around for nearly a century, cleared Congress in 1972 and headed to the states for ratification. It stalled out, but backers in recent years have tried to revive it, even though deadlines for ratification expired decades ago.
"Virginia says it is the critical 38th state to ratify the ERA with its General Assembly vote and insists the deadline is meaningless. The Trump administration says Virginia is wrong.
"This week, so did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an ERA supporter who nevertheless said the amendment is dead and supporters need to restart the process.
“ 'I would like to see a new beginning,” she said Monday.
"The ERA would declare equality of rights on “account of sex.”
"What that means exactly is contentious. If the amendment is added to the Constitution, it would create a morass of legal questions — chief among them whose vision of sex would control it.
"When Congress debated and approved the ERA in 1972, equality of the sexes was understood to mean men and women. The gay rights movement was nascent, and transgender rights was only notional. Neither figured in the debate in Congress nor in the statehouses that ratified it." . . .

The Democrats’ February Blues; "Earlier this month, the Democrats had a disastrous four days".


Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "On February 4, the second day of this Democratic train wreck, Trump gave his State of the Union address. Even many critics grudgingly admitted that it was the best speech of Trump’s presidency. That same day, a Gallup poll showed Trump’s approval rating at 49 percent, the highest of his presidency — higher than when he won the 2016 election.

"The Democratic members of Congress attending the State of the Union address appeared petty, showing that they were politicos first and elected officials second. Some Democratic representatives did not show up. Others walked out. Some hectored Trump. Some would not stand up — even when ordinary Americans were being applauded for their extraordinary lives.
"House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) tore up her official copy of the presidential speech on national television the moment Trump finished delivering it. It was the first time in history that the House speaker, seated directly behind the president, had shown such childishness.
"Then, on February 5, the Senate voted to acquit Trump on two impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
"When the impeachment inquiry started in September based on a “whistleblower” complaint, Trump’s approval rating was about eight points lower than it is now. The efforts of the impeachment triad of Representatives Pelosi (D., Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.), and Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) proved an unmitigated political disaster for their party. It’s no wonder, given that the partisan impeachment effort never won bipartisan or public support." . . .

Bernie isn't lefty enough for NYT??? . . . "Krugman wrote, "Bernie Sanders isn’t actually a socialist in any normal sense of the term. He doesn’t want to nationalize our major industries and replace markets with central planning; he has expressed admiration, not for Venezuela, but for Denmark. He’s basically what Europeans would call a social democrat — and social democracies like Denmark are, in fact, quite nice places to live, with societies that are, if anything, freer than our own."

"If Denmark were so nice and free, Krugman would live there. He's rich, and any university would hire him at the drop of a hat.

He greatly amuses me. He is the 21st century's Professor Irwin Corey, who billed himself as "The World’s Foremost Authority." Corey was a comic. Krugman is an economist. He has a Nobel Prize to prove it. But to me, he is a bigger laugh than Corey, whom Lenny Bruce called "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time." . . .



Alabama representative introduces bill forcing men over 50 to have vasectomies

Andrea Widburg  "Last year, Alabama passed a law banning abortion except for situations in which the mother's life is at risk.  A federal judge found the bill unconstitutional, and the Alabama attorney general did not appeal the decision.  Nevertheless, on Thursday, state rep. Rolanda Hollis introduced a counter-bill requiring that all men over fifty or who have had three children must get a vasectomy.  The bill is silly and fails to make a convincing pro-abortion case.
Under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of men.
This bill would require a man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first. 
"Hollis explained that she wants to highlight that it's wrong for Alabama ever to foreclose the possibility of abortion for unwanted children, especially in cases of rape or incest:. . . "

Progressives are told they might be allowed to have children after all  . . . "Despite our ability to feed people (an ability hindered by culture and corruption, not technology), there exists a class of people that wants to see humans erased from the Earth so the land can be returned to a pre-human paradise.  These people are oblivious to the fact that it's humans who give meaning to the Earth and that Nature without humans to observe it and provide context is the equivalent of one hand clapping." . . .

Leftist thuggery: Political violence accelerates against Trump-supporters

Monica Showalter  "Last year, there was the brutal beating of the Manhattan art gallery–owner who was beaten black and blue for walking to Chinatown with his MAGA hat on. As with so many of these cases, the cops dismissed it as isolated and unimportant.
"The conservative press is paying attention, but the nets and mainstream media continue to ignore this shocking pattern of political violence.
"Ever see one of these violent incidents on an Axios news summary?  Ever seen an editorial of outrage in the Washington Post over the leftist cult of violence? Nobody's being asked to answer for this climate of violence that is clearly real and growing, amounting to a threat on our democracy. Democrats love to speak of "threats to democracy" in reference to President Trump, but rest assured, the real ones are in the leftist thugs attempting to turn the U.S. into a Venezuelan-style hellhole where violence rules the day." . . .
“This is a Flag of White Supremacy!” WATCH as Raging Leftists Attack College Republicans, Spit on Flag  
Video shows one of the thugs/thugettes spitting on a replica of the Betsy Ross flag. It also shows one of the attackers shoving a conservative student into a pile of rocks.