Nevada’s ERA amends the state Constitution to ensure equal rights for all, “regardless of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin.”It is a more wide-ranging amendment than the federal ERA that Nevada adopted in 2017, which outlaws discrimination based on sex, though the push to ratify it in the U.S. Constitution remains gridlocked.Nevada Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-sponsored the bill to get it on the ballot, cited age protections for older workers laid off during the pandemic and transgender people having their identity protected as tangible differences that the amendment will make.In a statement Thursday, the committee backing the initiative said it was “thrilled to see the overwhelming support” for the measure.Vatican opens preliminary abuse probe into French cardinalMidterms reinforce Christian voter trends on abortion, GOPJapan minister quits over execution remark, PM delays tripIn election, support for abortion rights was about much more“Nevadans have decisively rejected hate and unequivocally declared that our differences should be celebrated and protected under law,” the group said.However, that came decades after the ratification deadline Congress set after it was passed in 1972, and five states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky and South Dakota — have attempted to remove their prior approval."