Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less

[pnwmom]

51. Did you hear about the Walmart cases? The Supreme Court had no problem with

Walmart paying women less than men, and Scalia said that women are not a protected class under the Constitution.

So no, I don't agree that no rights of women are being infringed on currently. We protect the rights of people based on race and religion; we should also protect them based on gender.

If men are worried that they might be unfairly subject to a draft at any time, then they should all be pushing for an Equal Rights Amendment, which would help them, too.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/scalia-constitution-does-not-p.html

Justice Antonin Scalia has weighed in on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, leaving women's rights activists seething.

In an interview with California Lawyer, Scalia said that the Constitution itself does not protect women and gay men and lesbians from discrimination. Such protections are up to the legislative branch, he said.