Reclaiming the Republic Podcast

Efforts are underway by powerful and politically influential interests in the US and overseas to:Mandate Covid 19 vaccinations for everyone on the planet which have not been tested on animals with fast-tracked, never-before-approved vaccines that can alter genes, or a which use tissue from aborted children;Require 19 vaccination “passports” for employment, travel, or attendance of children at public or private schools;Use cell phones to track vaccine or quarantine compliance.Citizens can still impact the outcome of these proposals.In this full-length podcast, 26 year state legislator and author, Delegate Bob Marshall (R-VA), shows citizens how to protect their rights, and presents in depth research vetted by two physicians.

Efforts are underway by powerful and politically influential interests in the US and overseas to:Mandate Covid 19 vaccinations for everyone on the planet which have not been tested on animals with fast-tracked, never-before-approved vaccines that can alter genes, or a which use tissue from aborted children;Require 19 vaccination “passports” for employment, travel, or attendance of children at public or private schools;Use cell phones to track vaccine or quarantine compliance.Citizens can still impact the outcome of these proposals.In this summarized podcast, 26 year state legislator and author, Delegate Bob Marshall (R-VA), shows citizens how to protect their rights, and presents in depth research vetted by two physicians.

The “Equality Act” (HR 5), passed by the U.S. House of Representatives (236 to 173) in May 2019, would directly threaten Christian families and individuals as well as Christian churches, Christian schools and many charitable ministries including health care and adoption services. If passed into law, individual Christians would be placed in the same social-legal status as were believers in the Soviet Union under dictator Joseph Stalin (1922-53). Persons who adhere to the moral teachings of the Old and New Testaments would be found “guilty” since “discrimination” against gender and sexual orientation will be treated the same as racial discrimination under the law.

President Trump appears able to nominate Supreme Court Justices who do not believe the Constitution requires abortion. Thus, abortion promoters and ERA supporters are working together to pass the ERA to provide abortion with protection under the US Constitution.

ERA zealots claim that in 1992 when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify James Madison’s 1789 Congressional Pay Amendment, a precedent was set for the ERA to be resurrected.  The National Organization for Women president, Eleanor Smeal, currently contradicts and rejects her 1978 Congressional testimony and now claims that Congress cannot set a ratification deadline.  This position also contradicting the US Supreme Court.

ERA advocates re-introduced the ERA in the House of Representatives and the US Senate but again opposed all efforts to amend the ERA to remove controversial consequences, the same consequences which led to its rejection in the House of Representatives.   Two years of hearings were held in the US Senate but the ERA failed to be reported favorably from Committee.

ERA proponents realized the ERA would not meet the seven year Congressional deadline so Congress granted an unprecedented time extension which was opposed even by major pro-ERA newspapers. Five states rescinded prior approval of the ERA, then Congress disallowed the rescissions based on a false history of the 14 the and 15 the Amendments, as well as misreading a letter from Founding Father, James Madison.

Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had opposed the  ERA. Jewish Women’s Clubs and the Urban League oppose the ERA as well as labor unions.  The ERA will strip tax exemption from single sex private or religious schools, as well as churches with male only clergy.  Attempts to amend the ERA both in the House of Representatives and the Senate to provide some exemptions for the strict scrutiny of ERA enforcement, were all defeated.

Courts will apply the language of the ERA according to the meaning of the Amendment’s words, not the flowery speeches of ERA proponents.  Women will have no private spaces available to them. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the ERA will require men and women to share jail cells, and that women should not be exempt from fighting in wars in hand to hand ground combat.  The ERA was devised to provide a constitutional basis for abortion and same-sex marriage. Since Supreme Court decisions can be reversed, the goal of the ERA is to provide the constitutional basis for abortion on demand and same-sex “marriage.”

While the slogan,“equal rights” and the ERA have helped mobilize feminists, the measure itself assumes that despite significant biological differences between men and women, any law that would recognize such differences is inherently morally offensive and violates the dignity of women. 

The ERA split the women’s movement in the 1920’s which had previously been united in their effort to secure the right to vote for all women and analyzes the policy assumptions of the early feminist movement. Bob gives background on ERA efforts from 1923 to 1970.