LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Equality shouldn’t be ‘dead’

OPINION:

I think it’s a shame that the Justice Department considers the Equal Rights Amendment dead (“Justice Department says Equal Rights Amendment is dead; Virginia ratification can’t revive it,” Web, Jan. 8). We need a new Equal Rights Amendment. We need a national law or constitutional amendment that states that all adult citizens will have the same legal, political and civil rights. It isn’t fair for some adult citizens to have certain rights that other adult citizens don’t have. Democracy and capitalism would work better if all citizens have equal rights.

CHUCK MANN

Greensboro, N.C.