Religious Committee for the ERA

The Religious Committee for the ERA was an organization of faith based feminists who planned a series of events to raise awareness of the need for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The organization had eight founders.[2] The organization included Catholics, Jewish supporters, Quakers, Presbyterians and many others from a wide variety of faith traditions.[1] After the ERA failed to pass in June 1982, the organization changed its name to Religious Network for Equality of Women.[3] They were also known as Renew.[4]

• 1978: People of Faith for ERA: Days of Prayer and Action
• 1980: Inter-religious Lobby Day[5]
• 1982: National Prayer Vigil in Washington, D.C.[6]
• 1982: On June 30, members of The Religious Committee for the ERA burned copies of laws that discriminated against women in front of the National archives.[4]

• Louise Bowman[7]
• Marian Coger[7]
• Mrs. C.L. Dillard[7]
• Theodore Hesburgh[2]
• Joan M. Martin
• Abigail McCarthy[8]
• Rev. Delores Moss[9]
• Eleanor R. Schwartz[10]
• Natalie Tackett[11]
• Sister Mary Luke Tobin[12]
• Sister Marjorie Tuite[3]
• Margaret Wilkins[13]

• American Baptist Women[14]
• Catholics Act for ERA[5]
• Church Women United[14]
• Las Hermanas[14]
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious[15]
• National Assembly of Women Religious[14]
• National Coalition of American Nuns
• Sisters of Loretto[16]
• St. Joan's International Alliance