The Illinois Legislature could decide next month to vote to make Illinois the 37^thstate to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. That would be the right thing to do.

Opposition in Illinois includes a group on the extreme hate list compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Illinois Family Institute, East Peoria.

Ironically, having a misogynist hate monger in the White House has energized the nation’s resistance to sexism and hate.

Here is the April 20 lead editorial in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/opinion/a-rebuke-to-trump-a-century-in-the-making.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region