On Friday April 4th at 8:00 AM a lawsuit was filed in the Second Judicial District of Nevada in Reno. The lawsuit to be filed by Doug Wallace seeks the removal of Hillary Clinton from the Nevada Presidential Ballot on the grounds that she is ineligible to hold the office conforming to Article II specificity of the U.S. Constitution.
Article II specifies only a male gendered candidate for that office. In fact Article II uses male gendered pronouns a total of nineteen times to so specify the gender of the President. No female gender is mentioned.
"Before Clinton or any woman can become President, Article II will need an amendment or a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to overcome that ineligibility", Says Wallace.
Wallace is remembered internationally for his struggle against Mormon leaders 32 years ago on April 2, 1976 for seeking equal rights for Black men in the Mormon priesthood with success coming two years later.
Wallace chose the filing date to commemorate the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 as well as his own effort two days earlier. He says that these combined dates should be known as Civil Rights Day to mark the need for further expansion of those rights to all people regardless of race, ethnicity or gender so that women can legally be U.S. President.
Wallace Adds, "That equality will have to include the emancipation of women in the Mormon Church to hold priesthood rights along with the men".
Email Wallace for a copy of the lawsuit.
Retired General Contractor and ATTORNEY AT LAW
Credentials include pressuring the LDS church to accept racial equality
with Black men some 30 years ago by public action.
and am most curious to see how you proceed for emancipation of the LDS women. (I was one unofficially for two years as a teenager.) This will be much more difficult, I think, than getting them to accept blacks in the priesthood. Their official discrimination against blacks was an anachronism and growing source of embarrassment to them. Discrimination against women, on the other hand, is the rule in many societies around the world. In Japan, where I now live, women are more emancipated in certain ways even than American women. I think having remnants of a matriarchy within the written historical record helps. I know many Shinto priestesses. They are goddess-like in their bearing. The high priest of the highest shrine of all the land (Ise Shrine) was until about 300 years ago always a woman. Nonetheless, when it looked like Crown Princess Masako would have only one child--a girl--who would be in line after her father to be Empress of Japan, the first in several hundred years, the doctors got busy and made sure Masako's sister-in-law would have a baby boy, usurping the little girl's place. Although more than 80% of the Japanese would like to see an Empress of Japan once again, it appears to be just too soon for the conservative imperial household agency (uncapitalized because I don't know if this is the correct translation of that body).
Sad to note the above, I do wish you the best of luck!
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Patricia 0rmsby (3 articles, 5 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 133 comments)
on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 2:22:18 AM
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