Bucking The Trend!

But that is what we expect from a Democratic state and that is what voters in Nevada did…

Nevada passes sweeping version of Equal Rights Amendment
AP News
By Gabe Stern
November 10, 2022


Nevada voters have adopted what is widely considered the most comprehensive state version of the Equal Rights Amendment in the nation, a sweeping update that puts protections in the state Constitution for people who have historically been marginalized.

Nevada’s ERA amends the state Constitution to ensure equal rights for all, “regardless of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin.”

It is a more wide-ranging amendment than the federal ERA that Nevada adopted in 2017, which outlaws discrimination based on sex, though the push to ratify it in the U.S. Constitution remains gridlocked.

Proponents of Nevada’s ERA say that it will provide new tools to challenge discrimination and close loopholes where those rights are not necessarily guaranteed. Nevada Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-sponsored the bill to get it on the ballot, cited age protections for older workers laid off during the pandemic and transgender people having their identity protected as tangible differences that the amendment will make.

In a statement Thursday, the committee backing the initiative said it was “thrilled to see the overwhelming support” for the measure.

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This is the second referendum on our rights and both times the voters had our back us. In 2018 the voters of Massachusetts  voted to pass the gender inclusive non-discrimination Question 3, that protects us in public accommodations and now Nevada.

Opposition to the ERA came from mostly conservative groups who oppose protections for gender identity and expression as well as age. They argued that expanding rights for gay marriage could infringe on freedom of religion. They also argued against added protections for transgender people to use bathrooms or compete in sports that align with their gender identity.

Yup, the right-wing conservatives want the right to discriminate against people they don’t like; Jews, Muslims, people who don’t speak English, Blacks, and us. It is their God giving right to discriminate.