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Michelle Quist: LDS Church and its newspaper dredge up tired old arguments against the ERA

It’s been cold, but did you know that hell has finally frozen over?

It did. For, you see, the Deseret News Editorial Board pointed to “avowed feminists” and “self-described feminists” as authority figures for the first, and likely last, time ever.

On Tuesday the Deseret News resurrected old, stale and nefariously misleading arguments in opposition to efforts by Utahns to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. According to the DNews, equality enshrined in the Constitution isn’t necessary when we can just say with empty words that “If a law or public policy harms women, it should be changed.