What Obama said, back at the YouTube debate last year, was:

And I think that if women are registered for service — not necessarily in combat roles, and I don't agree with the draft — I think it will help to send a message to my two daughters that they've got obligations to this great country as well as boys do.

Conservative women's groups argued a year ago, as during the ultimately unsuccessful fight to enshrine women's equality in our constitution, that women don't really want equality if it's uncomfortable for us sometimes. The president of Concerned Women for America, Wendy Wright, said:

On the surface, Americans want equality, but when you get into the nitty-gritty of laws that would not allow any distinction to be made between men and women, that's when Americans say, 'That's going too far. Men do have a natural sense of wanting to protect. Women have a natural sense of wanting to nurture. These are both beautiful characteristics — highly valued characteristics. And it's demeaning to deny that women have certain characteristics that are different than men.

Gag.

Look, would I want to register for the Selective Service? No, not at all. Of course, I was also kind of freaked out when I accompanied by high school boyfriend to do it, too. It's a likely-unnecessary system for a draft everyone swears won't happen anyway, not that either candidate is offering to get rid of it. But do you know what I like less than the thought of registering to register for a draft? Not having equality. So, you know what? I'm happy to pee in the damn unisex restroom, I'm happy to register for the Selective Service and I'm happy to not get special treatment for being a woman if it means that you have to pay me as much as a man. Deal? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Girls Gone Wild Killed [Reason]
Candidates Differ On Female Draft [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Democratic Candidates Back Selective Service For Women [Baptist Messenger of Omaha]
The Equal Rights Amendment And The Bible [Brethren Revival Fellowship]
Phyllis Schlafly, Then and Now [The Slog]

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