A Rational Aversion

A couple of things caught my eye today. One, from Faith in Action, was an article on the ERA.

Not the real estate outfit, no. No, not an Earned Run Average, either. Definitely not.

No, this ERA is the Equal Rights Amendment, which first hit the streets in tinsel-and-new-things year of 1972 and, since the Constitution places no time limits on the passage of amendments, it’s actually still alive. Some amendments have time limits in their texts, but the Constitution itself calls out no such thing.

What disturbs me the most about this seemingly lame little amendment is Section 2, which plainly says, “The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Since Congress routinely disavows itself from anything remotely similar to the Constitution the thought of it enforcing something as vague as the ERA is frightening. The 110th in particular. If anyone has been paying attention for the past couple of months he or she will be fully aware of what this Congress calls “appropriate.”

We’ve seen the 110th attempt to censor blogs, (conservative) organizations, and religious organizations. For the time being that is stopped. But swift on its skirts we now have HR 254, “David’s Law,” a supposed hate speech rule that will stop blogging dead in its tracks if it’s passed in Senate conference and signed by our predictably unpredictable Prez. It will also stop casual conversation dead in its tracks. Next come the inplants.

So far (since 35 years ago) there are 35 states that have voted for adopting the ERA. Three more and we’re sunk.

The context of the article deals with a strong likelihood that serious challenges will be advanced in courtrooms across the land as to whether or not the ERA guarantees homosexual marriage or not. Many think it does although the language is problematic. Read the article here and make up your own mind, like it matters.

Now for something really spooky. You think the Supremacists at SCOTUS have only been insane for a little while? Check this out, and keep in mind that it’s no joke. They did this in 1923!

As a self-styled free nation we’ve been getting “set up” for a long time. There’s a big fall coming.

One final article. This, too, is from Faith in Action, and it is VERY good. A lot of Constitutional precedent here. By the way, the Constitution is not a tough read. Do it sometime. Then wonder where in heck all these supposed “Constitutional rights” came from. Bring aspirin.

In the meantime, to show we’re seriously fed up, I’m working of the “book ‘em, Danno” theory that, Justices or Legislators, a strong 90 to 95 percent of these clowns are subject to immediate criminal (felony) action for their conscious and intentional efforts to nullify real constitutional rights just to ensure their own perpetual job status.

How ’bout them apples?