“It would wipe the out laws of the constitution. It would wipe out laws against bigamy. It would reduce the age of consent to 12. It would eliminate Mother’s Day.”

Did she really say that or are you being snarky?

And could someone please send me a copy of the homosexual agenda? I seem to have lost mine and I fear I'm just not doing my part.

The ERA has been in the news cycle the past several days, as a number of states, and delegations in both houses of Congress have begun the process of reviving Constitutional debate on it. Schafley, in turn has been speaking in opposition to the amendment, just as she did back in the early 1980's.

(Note that this is separate from the question of whether anyone should be required to register; but given that registration exists, shouldn't the responsibilities of citzenship fall equally on all citzens?)

Personally, I can't wait for the right to use women's public restrooms, which are always cleaner and smell nicer than men's. Um, at least that's what I've heard.

You can see who won here. The U.S. ranks almost at the bottom for social support of motherhood and of small children. (On the other hand, we have no problem supporting hot 25-year-olds with cool clubs and clothing that expresses their individuality.) Schafly was (is?) so popular because she hits a nerve. When we get 'equality' what it usually means is equality to what men have--and in the U.S. that means jack for mothers and children. Schlafly sees what many feminists (especially single childless hipster ones in their twenties) just totally miss--that 'equality' means 'the same as what men have been doing for 100 years.' The workplace, for instance, is still totally organized around the man-with-stay-at-home-wife model. That doesn't make any difference when you don't have kids--but when you do, you will see that it really, really, really sucks.

So--BMA, you're actually on to something. If you look at things from the point of view of a stay-at-home mom (who WANTS to be doing that) of small children, the ERA doesn't offer much. In fact, it threatens what you do have.

"Equality" feminists want more than anything to not be defined as mothers and wives. That's fine--been there, done that. The problem comes when you become a mother, and discover that the U.S. is a pretty hostile place for mothers, especially if you want to care for your kids yourself.

Plenty of very intelligent, thoughtful women opposed an equal rights amendment early in the 20th century. Susan B. Anthony (who was childless) really dumped some good women in the movement when they wouldn't go along with everything she wanted.

I used to be dismissive of Schlafly myself, until I read some history. (I mean, I still think she's a nut, but. There is a reason people listen to her and those like her.)

This is so wrong. Men generally pee in urinals, unlike women, who pee on seats. Men do not bleed on the seats they're hovering above because they're scared of cooties, but women do. Men do not strew blood-soaked biohazardous waste in public bathrooms, and rarely change their feces-smeared ankle-biters in public bathrooms. (Ooops... I fear I've just identified myself as one of those "hipster" feminists who doesn't think that breeding should define a woman's life.)

If a men's bathroom in an establishment is nasty, BANK that them women's is too.