Will The ERA Finally Become The Law of the Land?


	Will The ERA Finally Become The Law of the Land?

zasel

3-30-2007 2:01 AM

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politics, era, discrimination, equality, congress

zasel says:

After 2 1/2 decades, will the perfectly sane and fair Constitutional Amendment finally be ratified, or will we sink back into the morass of discrimination and small-mindedness that sunk it 25 years ago? Let's hope we are all a bit more enlightened this time.

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