The ERA’s Manipulation of Thought and Culture, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Feb 28, 2023

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

I see the so-called Equal Rights Amendment is back in the Senate again, and of course the USCCB is once more warning against it. Or perhaps I should not say “of course”, because we have learned the hard way that we can take almost nothing for granted as Catholics. But in this the USCCB has been right, recognizing the tremendous harm of politically guaranteeing civil “rights” that violate the natural law either explicitly or in their likely mode of practice. And to this concern we must add another: The modern tendency toward bureaucratic totalitarianism in the absence of virtue. …

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