SCOPE’s Certificate of Incorporation says it is dedicated: “to the preservation of the United States of America and the Constitution of the United States of America and particularly Article 2 of the Bill of Rights.”  Toward that end, the Certificate calls for collecting and disseminating information to “insure that political candidates, as well as elected officials and all government agencies shall continue to preserve to the individual citizens all of their rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution…”

SCOPE is more than just the 2nd Amendment, although that has become our focus. 

Since there can be little doubt that the establishment media is more biased than it has ever been, it is important that SCOPE members are made aware of non 2A issues that the establishment media lets slip by, intentionally, that will impact us.  Toward that end, Tom Rood has prepared an analysis of a NY Constitutional Amendment that will be on November’s ballot.

News you might not know about  by  Tom Rood

We all need to be watchful of the smoke and mirrors often used to pass laws that would, normally, never get past informed voters, at least in the following case.  Be informed about what we are asked to vote for in November.

The liberal state legislature and governor are trying to pull a fast one on all NY voters. It's buried in the so-called Equal Rights Amendment to the NY State Constitution. It will be on the back side of your ballot for Nov 5th. 

The title is designed to attract voters into approving it - who could be against equal rights? Mainly, it's intended to attract liberal voters to vote in November. The libs know they are in deep trouble and are pulling out all stops to derail Trump. 

What's in this proposition? 

It's an amendment to our NY State Constitution. That means future NY State legislatures and future governors, perhaps of other political persuasions, will be prevented from changing the law without also making a new amendment to the NY Constitution. It will be locked in, nailed to the barn door, whether you like it or not. In other words, it codifies things you might not like and makes them the law of the land.

The funny thing that struck me is that the libs are hell bent to ignore the constitution, so why bother?

Republican legislatures sued to keep it off the ballot and lost- no surprise in NY. 

What's hidden in it?  

It puts abortion rights into the NY Constitution.  Not necessary since New York legalized abortion in 1970 and this law is not under any genuine threat of modification or repeal. But putting abortion on the ballot is expected to bring out pro-abortion Democrats in greater numbers.  (But will it also energize anti-abortion voters, too?)

Some of this is to counter the US Supreme Court’s reversal on Roe vs Wade. However, as I read about the court's action on this, the decision was to return the issue to individual states as the federal government does not have the power, under the U S Constitution, to make a national law either for or against abortion.

Here’s the real reason for it. 

It expands the scope of discrimination based on race, religion, GENDER, reproductive freedom and protects them from being reversed by changing political tides. It updates the constitution so no New Yorker can be denied their rights based on ethnicity, national origin, disability, SEX (INCLUDING GENDER EXPRESSION), pregnancy or pregnancy outcome, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE and AUTONAMY. I read that last one as healthcare providers having to cover operations like sex changes. 

The bottom line- this amendment is vaguely worded for a reason. Among other things it could be used to block parents from having a say whether their children undergo gender reassessment surgery. It might be used to strip parent's legal rights with school age children including controversial gender transformation procedures. 

Another oppositional point includes schools being required to permit biological males competing on girls' sports teams or individual sporting contests.  And don’t forget coed bathrooms. 

If you are in agreement with this proposition, then by all means vote for it. But if it bothers you, you can color in the no box.