January General Meeting - Susan Appel, State Captain & Amber Brown, County Captain from Ohio Equal Rights

Susan Appel, State Captain & Amber Brown, County Captain from Ohio Equal Rights will join us to speak about the equal rights amendment and the right to marry amendment coming up on the ballot next year. They will have ballots for us if we would like to collect signatures.

Our proposed amendment, The Ohio Equal Rights Amendment, would be the most comprehensive Equal Rights Amendment in the nation. It would stop the government from discriminating against its citizens on account of race, color, creed or religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression regardless of sex assigned at birth,

pregnancy status, genetic information, disease status, age, disability, recovery status, familial status, ancestry, national origin, or military and veteran status.

Furthermore, The Ohio Right to Marry Amendment would extend these

equal rights protections to marriage.

Currently, Ohio's constitution contains a ban on same-sex marriage and

offers no protections for interracial marriages. Our amendment would ensure that couples can be legally married  regardless of 

race, sex, or gender.