Q. Why does it appear that so many Americans don’t understand the ramifications of forced government involvement in their personal lives? Jul 9, 2022 By Mary Kay Elloian, MBA, JD, Esq. In the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court “majority” – it is hard to envision a more dystopian…
May 3, 2022 – With news of a leaked US Supreme Court opinion – the outrage at the leak seems to be garnering more attention than the actual opinion – that is if it is the real opinion. Here are the facts: If Roe v Wade is overturned, this could…
How Reconstruction was a new beginning for the formerly enslaved but the fight for equal justice had just begun – including the right to vote, be free of poll taxes, and the continuing struggle for women and notably black women to vote. Discussion of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, Fifteenth Amendment allowing ‘men’ to vote – and the long awaited Nineteenth Amendment allowing ‘white’ Women to Vote – Culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 taking away all impediments of voting to All Women and Men of Voting age and eliminating literacy tests and poll taxes to voting. Discussion of 19th century presidents who kept slaves during and while in office in the White House is also discussed.
March 23, 2020 – Throughout American history women have been subservient to men. In fact, it wasn’t until around 1839, that the Married Women’s Property Acts began to expand the rights of married women–giving them some “limited” rights to act independent of their husbands–as historically women could not own property, and…
January 31, 2019 – Today is the last day of “stalking awareness month.” Yet, each day we see more new incidents of violence against women–including the mental and emotional torture which is stalking. In fact, most of us know that stalking is often a precursor to physical violence against women.…
January 27, 2019 – Polarization on issues such as “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Choice” routinely prevents clear dialog by those who hold them. So much so, that a well-known women’s rights advocate, and Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, has written dozens of books on issues encompassing women’s rights, social advocacy and spirituality. Sister…
January 9, 2019 – Today, a Senate Panel in Virginia approved to move the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) which had passed Congress but needed to be ratified by three fourths of the states to be a Constitutional Amendment. That process has been ongoing since 1972. However, just last year,…
