Seeking to find some light at the end of the tunnel, a new non-partisan, statewide organization calling itself, the ERA-NC Alliance held a press conference at Wake Forest University to announced renewed efforts to advocate for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, better known as the ERA. Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in North Carolina is intended as part of a nationwide campaign to begin the Amendment process again or achieve ratification by securing the three additional states needed for inclusion in the U.S. Constitution… Read the entire story on the Camel City Dispatch website.
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“Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t. Nobody ever thought that that’s what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that.” ~ Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Wage Gap in NC