{"id":102884,"date":"2024-08-26T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=102884"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:58:17","slug":"letter-please-vote-no-on-the-so-called-equal-rights-amendment-ballot-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2024\/08\/26\/letter-please-vote-no-on-the-so-called-equal-rights-amendment-ballot-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Please vote NO on the so-called \u201cEqual Rights Amendment\u201d ballot proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more than 50 years in our country, we\u2019ve worked to strengthen and promote women&#8217;s athletics. Those efforts have paid off magnificently. In the recent NCAA basketball finals, the women&#8217;s championship had higher television ratings than the men\u2019s for the first time. One hopes it won\u2019t be the last time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It could be, though, if the Proposal One initiative passes on Nov. 5. Proposal One, innocuously being called the \u201cEqual Rights Amendment\u201d, would give biological males a Constitutional right to play on girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams in New York. Biological males on girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams simply don&#8217;t work. That\u2019s so plainly obvious but the ideologues in Albany don\u2019t seem to care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The full language of the ERA bill (Senate 2023-S108A or Assembly version 2023-1283) states these categories for equal protection \u2013 \u201crace, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy\u201d. Many of these categories were already enumerated under the federal Civil Rights act of 1964. Aside from the \u201cgender identity\u201d qualifier, which could badly disrupt women\u2019s sports, the word \u201cage\u201d is also very problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If the intent is to grant full and equal rights and privileges to any American citizen regardless of age, clearly that doesn\u2019t fit with the rule of law. Taken to the extreme, ten-year-olds would have to be issued driver\u2019s licenses upon demand. Fourteen-year-olds would have to be served alcohol at their local tavern. More likely the goal of the proposal is to allow for minors to obtain more medical procedures without parental knowledge or consent. Follow the money?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hormone replacement therapy is very expensive. Biopharm interests stand to make billions if many more youth are given gender manipulation treatments without parental knowledge. Doesn\u2019t seem like a good idea to cut parents out from purely a fiscal restraint viewpoint \u2013 those steering the child towards treatment may feel they can direct for extreme levels of spending if taxpayers are covering all costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concept of the ERA is good, but the wording is sloppy and needs to be re-done. The writers of the bills have been told this repeatedly, but they stubbornly would not budge. We need to vote the ballot proposal down so the language can be reworked and presented again in another election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rich Purtell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Apalachin, N.Y.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 50 years in our country, we\u2019ve worked to strengthen and promote women&#8217;s athletics. Those efforts have paid off magnificently. 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