As the executive director of the Alice Paul Institute, I would like to emphasize that what she would have considered the real "sex amendment," the Equal Rights Amendment, is still three states away from ratification.
"For those of us who believe in issues, it's a real First Amendment concern".
In the pantheon of real First Amendment concerns, this one is off the radar screen.
While those who sue to have "under God" removed may not win, they have a real First Amendment grievance as opposed to the fake one dreamed up by Basil Dalack in Tequesta.
Although the president at the time was George H.W. Bush, one struggles to imagine even our current multitasking (not to say ambidextrous) President signing two different laws at once, leaving to EPA the extraordinary task of deciding which was the real 1990 amendment to the Clean Air Act.
[Update: For those looking for one, here's a good example of a real first amendment issue.].
And unlike the US, mainland China does not and has never had anything like real First Amendment rights.
The real first amendment battle, it seems, will have to wait for another day, as it was Bates himself who offered up the information.
And it now appears that Right Wing Radio talkers -- at the core of a very real First Amendment blow suffered one year ago are, once again, in the thick of all of it.
"If the intention is genuine in making real constitutional amendments, then it wouldn't be limited to this one article," said Dia'a Eddin Dawoud, leader of the Nasserist Party.
