And discusses the ERA on the Illinois Leader

Here is a choice comment:

Section 2 of ERA would take enormous areas of law out of the hands of state legislatures and transfer them to the Federal Government: to the Congress, to the federal courts to interpret what Congress does, and to the federal bureaucracy to write regulations that have the force of law.

These areas of law would include marriage, divorce, family property law, child custody, adoptions, abortions, alimony, some criminal laws, age limits for marriage and the age of consent, public and private schools, prison regulations, and insurance rates.

Errrrrr..thanks for playing, but no. What the ERA would do is require states demonstrate a compelling state interest for differentiating based on gender in any of these policy areas just as it must for race, national origin and religion.

Let the lies continue…