Posted on 08/06/2010 3:35:08 AM PDT by Man50D
Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community.
“We believe we need to take clear action here in Congress to protect the rights of parents to raise their children," DeMint said at a Wednesday panel discussion. "This treaty would, in fact, establish a precedent that those rights have been given over to the international community."
DeMint is lead sponsor of S. Res. 519, a resolution to protect parental rights, which is co-sponsored by 30 senators total. Only four more senators need to sign on to inform President Obama that he does not have enough votes in the Senate to ratify the treaty, DeMint said.
DeMint has also introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitutional amendment to protect parental rights.
Under Article 2, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution, treaties must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate for them to take effect.
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Full Title: Sen. DeMint: Ratifying U.N. Children’s Rights Treaty Would Turn Parental Rights ‘Over to International Community’
Thank Goodness for Senator DeMint. As a father of five, I sincerely hope that his resolution is successful, and that the treaty is never ratified.
Sounds like Hillary’s “It Takes A Village”.
This is nostalgia for the days when rule of law actually meant something. What we will probably get is no Senate vote but a Czar of Children’s Rights who will push to the edges of the law and then some.
Now it’s “It Takes a Pillage” or “It Takes a Spillage.”
I like DeMint, and he is a good man...BUT:
A RESOLUTION is not a BILL....anything UN related is bad...pass a law via a BILL to do away with this obvious violation of parental rights.
Of course, we first need to get America out of the UN, and do away with Liberal Globalism. You begin this by doing away with the Liberal Free Trade Agreements (which are all supported by the UN).
End Liberal Globalism, and you end the UN influence. If you make no effort to do away with Liberal Globalism....you support the UN
The UN was such a cute camel’s nose — hey, it even gave nominal kudos for the establishment of Israel. It’s not such a cute stinking camel’s carcass occupying the tent now.
That’s the goal of communism. Eliminate the family so that the only authority is the government. Meanwhile, the parents would still have to PAY for the children’s upbringing. Yes, their money is still good but that’s all. The parents will have no say in the children’s moral upbringing.
Of course, the “international community” will teach the children about sex at age 5 and provide access to abortion starting at age 12.
This treaty not only gives your children the right of free association at any age, it also gives them the right to sexual consent at age 12.
Brazil is a signer of this treaty.
In a family court in Brazil, I saw the following admonition.
“Sex with children under 12 years of age is against the law.”
If the US ratifies this “treaty”, your children will have the “right” to engage in sexual activity with whomsoever they will, of whatever age or gender or genus, at the age of 12.
Too true. Or, given recent history, we’d see an executive order amounting to having signed it, so the One Who Must Not Be Blamed doesn’t have to worry about the pesky congresscritters.
In America today, the final parental authority over your child is a stranger in a black robe, supported by strangers in blue robes.
If it comes down to that, there is nothing you can do to/with/about/for your child if that stranger says you may not. Your rights are mere tissue now, when a child may be plucked from your home at the whim of a CPS agent you wouldn’t trust to babysit a garter snake.
If you don’t already know this, may you learn it secondhand.
later
file under “UN evidence”
. . . as I read ,, blood is shooting from my eyes ,,, but there’s no real surprise . The only thing parents will be good for is producing more fodder for the indoctrination process which begins in pre-school when the government takes control of your child .
DeMint said the threat to parental rights is “not some theoretical threat.”
Nations that ratify U.N. treaties are bound to adhere to them by international law.
He also said that ratification of the treaty would be “a terrible precedent” not just for parental rights, “but in other areas that we’ve looked at.”
This would open the door to more UN agenda. Demint also said Boxer is pushing hard for this.
They have no respect for our Constitution, but they seem to for the UN agenda, Boxer needs to.
This raises it’s ugly head every few months.
Just to let you know, it’s still an issue.
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