Neither the Minnesota Constitution nor the U.S. Constitution explicitly guarantees that all of the rights they protect are held by all of its citizens without regard to sex.  While the majority of people believe we do have a Constitutional Amendment and even more believe we should—the fact remains that we don’t.

We need to protect ourselves from a rollback of the significant advances in women's rights over the past 40 years.  The legislature has the power to replace existing laws by a majority vote, and judicial precedents can be eroded or ignored by courts that follow.  The Constitution has the final word—and right now there is no protection against discrimination based on sex.   Aren’t equal rights between men and women important enough to be protected and upheld in the State Constitution?

Since Minnesota values women and Minnesota supports gender equality—let’s make it permanent.

Now is the time to act! We need to secure the progress we’ve made by enacting this into the bedrock of Minnesota’s democracy—our Constitution.

Sign this petition and let your members of the House and Senate know you support a Minnesota Constitutional Amendment for Equality (CAFE).  Encourage them to truly represent their district by supporting the current bills in the House and Senate proposing a Constitutional Amendment for Equality—which simply states “Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied on account of sex.”