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Related: About this forumHILLARY GROUP. "..the mid-1970s, the Equal Rights Amendment appeared headed for passage"..
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The LGBT movement is the latest to come up against the sanctity of the public restroom, but its not the first.
In the mid-1970s, the Equal Rights Amendment appeared headed for passage, just a few states short of the 38 ratifications it needed. The constitutional amendment guaranteed that 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 supporters werent ready for Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist who successfully mobilized against the ERA by warning that it would lead to the military drafting women and the proliferation of public unisex bathrooms. Then, as now, scaring people about what could happen behind closed stall doors proved to be very effective, as even ERA supporters admitted.
The LGBT movement is the latest to come up against the sanctity of the public restroom, but its not the first.
In the mid-1970s, the Equal Rights Amendment appeared headed for passage, just a few states short of the 38 ratifications it needed. The constitutional amendment guaranteed that Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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Anderson revealed that the right-wing fringe John Birch Society helped gin up opposition to the ERA by distributing literature that claims the amendment would make homosexual marriages legal, would outlaw separate public restroom facilities and would eliminate the separate states authority over marriage, divorce and child care.
Operation Wake Up, a coalition of groups opposed to the ERA, also pushed the bathroom issue. An activist dressed up as a common toilet and crossed out the words his and hers and wrote theirs.
But as with the LGBT fight, these fears were misplaced. As Timothy Schellhardt of The Wall Street Journal explained in a 1979 piece, Despite talk about all sorts of compulsory mixing of the sexes, the right to privacy would permit segregated locker rooms and school dormitories.
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And the Koch Owned John Birch/Libertarian fringe Teaparty has never let up.
They work like cockroaches in the night to do whatever it takes to keep Sec Hillary Clinton, with all her Human Rights accolades, from ever reaching the office of President.
This is Why We Elect Hillary Clinton.
Same big money, big control, Kochs.have directed the laws of the land for too many people, & for too many years.
Racist, bigots, mysogony.Control freak holdouts from the beginning days of our country.
It will only end in 2016 with President Hillary Clinton.
There is no one else .
Whomever reads this, you are eithrr for the John Bircher Kochs or you are with Hillary Clinton, because as this election is played out, it is evident that those are the only 2 choices we have.
Listen to the rhetoric, the Bros, the social media filthy derrogatory hate towards the one woman who has the will & the smarts to end the Koch, John Bircher Libertarians, mission to keep white male supremacy as the eternal watchdog of.out Nation.
It's Only Hillary. You get it?
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HILLARY GROUP. "..the mid-1970s, the Equal Rights Amendment appeared headed for passage".. (Original Post)
misterhighwasted
Mar 2016
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. They have been plotting and setting up this and other issues for year
Take over of America, one party system, back to 1940s era, democracy would be completely over. Yep, this is their plan.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. K & R
BTW, the unisex bathrooms is phobia driven, I worked in a location with a unisex bathroom, we did not have a problem with this, everyone went into a stall for their privacy and this was on the 70's. Whether it was same sex or whatever it was not a problem. In fact when parents take their children to a public restroom it will not matter.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)3. I remember all this bullshit
Maybe if the President of the United States does not have equal rights under the law, the amendment will finally pass.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)4. They also made a big fuss that women would be drafted
To which I say,
And?
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)5. K&R!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)6. Erma Bombeck asked sarcastically what Schlafly did on long distance flights: restrict fluids?
What a non-issue this is.