Right-Wing Billionaires Have a Project Going to Rewrite Our Constitution, & They Are Shockingly Clos

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22. 28 states have signed on. 6 more needed to pass the 2/3 threshold to call a Con Con

According to Article V of the U.S. Constitution, 34 state legislatures have to call for a Constitutional Convention in order for it to be convened. ((Also called a "Con Con" -Progree))

In 2014 – what halcyon days – this seemed like another of Farris’s many fringe projects. Specifically, it seem­ed like a new and doomed way to push his beloved “Parental Rights Amendment,” which would make home­schooling a constitutional right. Despite his diligence, and some existing support for the idea within the GOP (40 Republican representatives introduced a parental rights measure in 2009), it’s obviously come to nothing so far.

Now it looks like Farris may just get what he wants. In These Times reported in January that 28 states have now called for a constitutional convention, and this, coupled with Republican gains in state legislatures last November, means that Farris’s big idea may now be just a few states away from becoming reality.

There are some risks, of course. Once a Constitutional Convention is convened, ADF and its allies in state legislatures can’t control how it would play out. Representatives could pass anything from the Equal Rights Amendment to an amendment banning school vouchers. As Stanford University’s Jack Rackove told me in 2014, “Anything you want to propose is up for consideration. You can’t definitively say whether or not it would be a ‘runaway’ convention.” This is precisely why the late Phyllis Schlafly opposed the idea.

But the Religious Right might not have a better moment to advance its goal of American theocracy. ((and of course the right-wing greedbangers in general promoting yet more wealth concentration, destruction of civil liberties and on and on -Progree))

http://au.org/church-state/march-2017-church-state/viewpoint/the-con-con-con

The above is from au.org - Americans United for Separation of Church and State. From the March 2017 issue of their Church and State magazine. So it's from the perspective of worrying about dissolving the separation of church and state and imposing right-wing theocracy on us all. But of course a "con con" would undoubtedly deal with more than gay marriage and teaching "creation science" and ending women's right to choose, taxpayer funding of religious schools, to name just a few right-wing theocracy goals.