No liberty and justice for all

Dear editor:

“Liberty and justice for all” are words we say each time we say a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag and most say it as empty words that do not have meaning nor need for action.

Our country has not achieved this in 242 years and it does not seem much closer than it did a half century ago. If you say these words and do not mean it, you are a hypocrite.

“There are 13 U.S. states which are yet to ratify the ERA after it was passed by the Congress on March 22, 1972, following 84 to 8 votes in the Senate. The unratified states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.”

Much of this opposition is to keep women from achieving equal rights and equal pay and is supported in ignorance by churches of various denominations that still teach and preach the superiority of men and the subservience of women and by politicians that are elected by those with the same mindset.

Any intelligent and discerning human that has any critical thinking left and not buried under irrational feelings should be mad as hell that we have not achieved “liberty and justice for all” and the fact that we do not seem to be much closer than we were a half century ago. Churches and church members should be the leaders in making equal rights happen and not be the barrier and stumbling block by an archaic philosophy and by electing those with the same mindset. Jerry Wayne Davis Hot Springs