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Letter from Paul Wenner

Proposal 1 Is Dangerous

This November, voters in New York will be asked to vote on an amendment to the state constitution. Proposal 1, the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment,” if passed, will have dangerous ramifications for minor children and their parents. Briefly, this proposed amendment would make it illegal in New York to discriminate against persons not only for race, creed, color or religion, as the constitution already reads, but for 12 new categories.

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