We might say that women are equal to men, but our practice would suggest something very different. After 150 years of attempts to add an amendment to the US Constitution, women are still officially “unequal.” And sadly, many churches have opposed constitutionally protected equal rights for women. Recently, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would eliminate the deadline for state ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, creating a path for passage of the amendment and making equality real.
Read a commentary about the ERA by Allyson McKinney Timm at Sojourners.
Tongue on Fire 