FrankRep
08-22-2010, 07:35 AM
Senators line up to tell U.N. to leave kids alone (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=193361)
31 already committed to oppose treaty giving world body oversight of parents
World Net Daily
August 22, 2010
Thirty-one Republican senators have agreed to oppose the United Nations' "Convention on the Rights of the Child" treaty, and critics of the international plan to vest children with a long list of rights – such as a right to seek government review of parental decisions – are looking for three more names.
The campaign (http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={47C34D19-835D-42EC-92C2-E9D042052769}) by supporters of ParentalRights.org (http://www.parentalrights.org/) opposes an effort to put the U.N. advocacy plan into operation in the United States.
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The resolution states the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child should not even be presented to the Senate for a vote, which would require two-thirds approval for ratification, because it "is contrary to the principles of self-government and federalism, and ... because the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child undermines traditional principles of law in the United States regarding parents and children."
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Among the provisions of the treaty, according to the Parental Rights website:
* Parents no longer would be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
* A murderer aged 17 years, 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime no longer could be sentenced to life in prison.
* Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
* The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent's decision.
* A child's "right to be heard" would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
* According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children's welfare.
* Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
* Teaching children about Christianity in schools has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
During the presidential campaign season of 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised that the CRC was an issue he would pursue.
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31 already committed to oppose treaty giving world body oversight of parents
World Net Daily
August 22, 2010
Thirty-one Republican senators have agreed to oppose the United Nations' "Convention on the Rights of the Child" treaty, and critics of the international plan to vest children with a long list of rights – such as a right to seek government review of parental decisions – are looking for three more names.
The campaign (http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={47C34D19-835D-42EC-92C2-E9D042052769}) by supporters of ParentalRights.org (http://www.parentalrights.org/) opposes an effort to put the U.N. advocacy plan into operation in the United States.
...
The resolution states the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child should not even be presented to the Senate for a vote, which would require two-thirds approval for ratification, because it "is contrary to the principles of self-government and federalism, and ... because the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child undermines traditional principles of law in the United States regarding parents and children."
...
Among the provisions of the treaty, according to the Parental Rights website:
* Parents no longer would be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
* A murderer aged 17 years, 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime no longer could be sentenced to life in prison.
* Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.
* The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent's decision.
* A child's "right to be heard" would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.
* According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children's welfare.
* Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.
* Teaching children about Christianity in schools has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.
* Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.
During the presidential campaign season of 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised that the CRC was an issue he would pursue.
...
Full Story:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=193361