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RES-2016-070 Resolution in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment
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11/15/2016
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4e
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Agenda - 11-15-2016 - 4-a - Resolution in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment
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-PgF <br /> RES-2016-070 4Q'. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County forthrightly supports equal rights for all residents of Orange County; and <br /> WHEREAS, women continue to confront a lack of political parity, workplace discrimination, health care <br /> inequities, disparate rates of poverty, rape and domestic violence assaults; and <br /> WHEREAS, the United States Constitution fails to guarantee explicitly that all rights that it purports to <br /> protect are held equally by all residents without regard to sex; and <br /> WHEREAS, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment never has been interpreted to <br /> guarantee equal rights for women; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Equal Rights Amendment [ERA] was drafted to help correct systemic discrimination <br /> based on sex, i.e., by situating sex as a suspect category invoking strict judicial scrutiny, as with race, <br /> national origin and religion; and <br /> WHEREAS, the ERA was passed by Congress in 1972 and ratified by 35 of the 38 states necessary to <br /> put it into the Constitution, yet was assumed to have expired in 1982; and <br /> WHEREAS, Congress can alter time limits in the proposing clauses of amendments, and the deadline <br /> for the ERA appeared only in the preamble as opposed to the actual legislation; and <br /> WHEREAS, Senator Floyd B. McKissick, Jr. and Representative Carla Cunningham introduced ERA <br /> ratification bills in the NC General Assembly in the 2015 long session, with Senator Mike Woodard co- <br /> sponsoring the Senate bill and Representative Henry M. Michaux co-sponsoring the House bill; and <br /> WHEREAS, these legislators have indicated that they will introduce similar bills in 2017; and <br /> WHEREAS, US Representative David Price, Representative Alma Adams, and Representative G.K. <br /> Butterfield co-sponsored bills in the 114th Congress to adopt an ERA, and to lift the time limits on states <br /> for ratifying the ERA; <br /> NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br /> calls on the US Congress to pass into law a bill to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment, or to remove <br /> the time limit for ratification of the ERA so that ratification shall be achieved upon the affirmative vote of <br /> 38 states, of which 35 already have ratified; and <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of County Commissioners calls on the <br /> NC General Assembly to pass into law a bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States <br /> Constitution as proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. <br /> This the 15th day of November 2016. <br /> 44 " <br /> Earl McKee, Chair <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />
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