{"id":6046,"date":"2019-01-24T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1gf.f8a.myftpupload.com\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2019-01-24T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:23:11","slug":"mmpcdc-adopts-resolution-supporting-ratification-by-the-commonwealth-of-virginia-of-the-equal-rights-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution-on-january-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"MMPCDC Adopts Resolution, Supporting Ratification by the Commonwealth of Virginia of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, on January 16, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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RESOLUTION OF THE MANASSAS AND MANASSAS PARK CITIES DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE IN SUPPORT OF RATIFICATION BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the United States Constitution does not\nexplicitly guarantee equal rights and equal protection for the sexes; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, for 47 years, the Commonwealth of Virginia\nState Constitution has protected Virginians from discrimination by the\nCommonwealth on the basis of sex; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and\nstate constitutional statements of equality generally do not provide the strict\nscrutiny for sex-based classifications that is provided for classifications\nbased on race, religion and national origin; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, state laws are not uniform and federal laws are not\ncomprehensive, and these laws can be repealed or reduced; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the people of the United States continue to experience the\nnegative effects of lack of political parity between men and women, workplace\ndiscrimination, health care inequities, disparate rates of poverty, rape, and\ndomestic violence assaults; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the Equal Rights Amendment would provide\nthe \u201cEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the\nUnited States or by any State on account of sex\u201d and the Amendment would help\nensure women and men have the same constitutional protections; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, without the Equal Rights Amendment, the\nstatutes and judicial decisions that have led to major advances in women\u2019s\nrights are vulnerable to being ignored, weakened, or even repealed or reversed;\nand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the Equal Rights Amendment would help\nensure that women and men have the same constitutional protections; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by\nCongress in 1972, and has been ratified by 37 states, the most recent being\nNevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018 and the time limit for the ERA appears only\nin the preamble and Congress presently is considering a bill that removes the\ntime limit for ratification of the ERA; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEREAS<\/strong>, constitutional equality for women and men\ncontinues to be a timely issue in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the United\nStates and worldwide, and 134 other nations have achieved constitutional\nequality for their women and men;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED<\/strong>, that the Manassas and Manassas Park\nCities Democratic Committee hereby supports the passage, ratification, and\nimplementation of the Equal Rights Amendment so that women are guaranteed equal\nrights under the law and so that these rights shall not be denied or abridged\nby the United States or by any State; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED<\/strong>,\nthat the Manassas and Manassas Park Cities Democratic Committee urges the\nGeneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia to ratify the Equal Rights\nAmendment to the United States Constitution, as proposed by Congress in 1972, during the 2019\nVirginia legislative session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adopted unanimously by the\nManassas and Manassas Park Cities Democratic Committee on January 16, 2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RESOLUTION OF THE MANASSAS AND MANASSAS PARK CITIES DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE IN SUPPORT OF RATIFICATION BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEREAS, the United States Constitution does not explicitly guarantee equal rights and equal protection for the sexes; and WHEREAS, for 47 years, the Commonwealth of Virginia State Constitution has protected Virginians from discrimination by the Commonwealth on the basis of sex;…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,161,239],"tags":[59,259,162,240],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-committee","category-resolution","category-womens-issues","tag-committee-mmpcdc","tag-equal-rights-amendment","tag-resolution","tag-womens-issues"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}