From here.

I had intended to finish this series before the election on November 5, 2019. That did not happen, unfortunately. Still, Conservative groups need to spread the word and fight ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced this discussion of this strange, renewed effort to pass the ERA. Here we will consider a couple of emails Delegate Bob Marshall sent out to warn people about this problem.

This email contained an attachment, a fact sheet that I have linked to.

Date: August 9, 2019 11:45 AM

Subject: ERA November 2019

While the ERA polls well in Virginia, the policies that it mandates are supported only by a small percentage of the public.

I have compiled in a fact sheet on the main consequences of the ERA based on my reading the original source documents including ERA congressional hearings…

An iPhone 11 in White (from here)

No parent intentionally allows harm to come to their children. No parent willfully neglects their offspring…but their ignorance can cause irreversible changes that affect kids’ brains. Parents can control those changes. Namely, are you managing your kids’ use of electronic devices?

Well-documented research demonstrates that when kids are exposed to extensive use of smart phones, tablets, computer internet, social media, video games, TV and other electronics, their developing brains are short-circuited, sometimes permanently. Certainly, that isn’t something you would purposely allow.

Disconnected: How to Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids documents the research of Thomas Kersting, a high school counselor and therapist. Starting in 2009, his committee began receiving referrals for students newly diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Actual ADHD is usually diagnosed in children beginning at age five with the average age of diagnosis being eight years old. But these…