On this chilly, sunny Friday in the middle of January, President Biden has published the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It was passed by Congress in 1972; ratified by 3/4ths of the states, and now it is the 28th Amendment.
It reads:
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Prepare yourself, because there will be lots of talk about whether it’s “valid” or a “real” amendment, and let me be clear: the ERA has met all the requirements of the amendments before it.
Do I trust this Supreme Court to uphold that? I don’t, but we also can’t trust them to uphold any part of the Constitution, John Roberts and his Court of Merry Anti-Constitutionists have already hacked away at our core rights.
But this Court is not forever. What’s to come will not last forever. Even if it feels like it.
Even if it outlasts some of us.
Time is bigger and longer and fiercer than we know. Time is a leveler and time is builder, drip by drip by drip.
So many people fought to see this day, fought to see the equality of women enumerated and enshrined in the Constitution, and if we know anything after three election cycles, we know people despise women. It was not an easy road or an easy battle.
Most of the people who conceived of it, believed in it, worked for it, likely didn’t live to see this day.
And I think that’s something we’re going to have to adjust to, in this world of instant feedback and instant results. What we do for the foreseeable future may not look like much, we may not reap rewards, we might not even know if what we did made any difference at all.
But time will know.
Drip, drip, drip.
Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.
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