If this treaty passes, as you will read, among other provisions you will no longer be able to guide your child in their choice of religion. Also, children as young as 5 will receive extensive sexual education. This horror story begs to be read....
By Sara Noble
Only the U.S. and Somalia have not signed the Rights of the Child Treaty and for good reason. It substitutes global governance for U.S. law and the rights of U.S. parents.
The Rights of the Child Treaty is rearing its ugly head and is in the final stages of negotiations.
President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as ‘embarrassing’ and had promised to review this.
The U.S. has signed and ratified both the optional protocols [regarding child soldiers and child prostitution and pornography] to the Convention. The EU is calling for the U.S. to sign and ratify the rights of the child treaty. There is a strong U.S. group supporting ratification.
Senator Jim DeMint has submitted an opposition bill in the Senate which is a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the primary safeguard for …the well-being and protection of children is the family, and that the primary safeguards for the legal rights of children in the United States are the Constitution’s. There is a companion bill in the House. Both won’t pass.
The U.S. Rights of the Child Treaty, which has been around since the Clinton era is now being seriously considered under this president. It eliminates U.S. sovereignty over our sacred right to raise our own children. The Senate appears to be poised to approve it, if not before the election, they will approve it in an Obama second term. Hillary Clinton is currently negotiating this treaty.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a big California liberal, is pushing this treaty. She is “humiliated” that only the U.S. and Somalia are refusing to sign. Bernie Sanders, socialist, is another big supporter.
WHAT THE TREATY ATTEMPTS TO DO WITH ITS ONE SIZE FITS ALL MENTALITY:
By Sara Noble
Only the U.S. and Somalia have not signed the Rights of the Child Treaty and for good reason. It substitutes global governance for U.S. law and the rights of U.S. parents.
The Rights of the Child Treaty is rearing its ugly head and is in the final stages of negotiations.
President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as ‘embarrassing’ and had promised to review this.
The U.S. has signed and ratified both the optional protocols [regarding child soldiers and child prostitution and pornography] to the Convention. The EU is calling for the U.S. to sign and ratify the rights of the child treaty. There is a strong U.S. group supporting ratification.
Senator Jim DeMint has submitted an opposition bill in the Senate which is a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the primary safeguard for …the well-being and protection of children is the family, and that the primary safeguards for the legal rights of children in the United States are the Constitution’s. There is a companion bill in the House. Both won’t pass.
The U.S. Rights of the Child Treaty, which has been around since the Clinton era is now being seriously considered under this president. It eliminates U.S. sovereignty over our sacred right to raise our own children. The Senate appears to be poised to approve it, if not before the election, they will approve it in an Obama second term. Hillary Clinton is currently negotiating this treaty.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a big California liberal, is pushing this treaty. She is “humiliated” that only the U.S. and Somalia are refusing to sign. Bernie Sanders, socialist, is another big supporter.
WHAT THE TREATY ATTEMPTS TO DO WITH ITS ONE SIZE FITS ALL MENTALITY:
The convention has established a Committee on the Rights of the Child, an 18-member panel in Geneva composed of “persons of high moral character” who review the rights of children in nations that are party to the convention. This will replace our Constitution. Why do we need a U.N. panel to determine the rights of our children?
The treaty mandates “the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion” and outlaws the “arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy,” intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference. It takes the control of child rearing from parents.
The UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has decided that, “in a world affected by HIV and AIDS”, it is “imperative” to teach children as young as 5 about masturbation as well as “gender roles, stereotypes and gender-based violence”.
By the time they’re 9 years old, they’ll learn about “positive and negative effects of ‘aphrodisiacs,” and wrestle with the ideas of “homophobia, transphobia and abuse of power.” At 12, they’ll learn the “reasons for” abortions — but they’ll already have known about their safety for three years. When they’re 15, they’ll be exposed to direct “advocacy to promote the right to and access to safe abortion.”… Read more here…
One of the provisions bars anyone under 18 years of age to be imprisoned with adults. It will invalidate all state laws requiring teens over 16 accused of murder and other violent crimes to be tried and sentenced as adults. Forget state rights, what about our right to safety. It gives a slap on the wrist to violent, dangerous youths.
More information from Fox News:
Fox News: …Because of the Supremacy Clause in Article VI of the Constitution, all treaties are rendered “the supreme law of the land,” superseding preexisting state and federal statutes. Any rights or laws established by the U.N. convention could then be argued to hold sway in the United States. .
“To the extent that an outside body, a group of unaccountable so-called experts in Switzerland have a say over how children in America should be raised, educated and disciplined — that is an erosion of American sovereignty,” said Steven Groves, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Parental rights groups are similarly stirred; they see in the U.N. convention a threat that the government will meddle with even the simplest freedoms to raise their children as they see fit.
“Whether you ground your kids for smoking marijuana, whether you take them to church, whether you let them go to junior prom, all of those things . . . will be the government’s decision,” said Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org. “It will affect every parent who’s told their children to do the dishes.”
20 Things You Need to Know About the Treaty [Parental Rights.org]
Ten things you need to know about the structure of the CRC:
- It is a treaty which creates binding rules of law. It is no mere statement of altruism.
- Its effect would be binding on American families, courts, and policy-makers.
- Children of other nations would not be impacted or helped in any direct way by our ratification.
- The CRC would automatically override almost all American laws on children and families because of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI.
- The CRC has some elements that are self-executing, while others would require implementing legislation. Federal courts would have the power to determine which provisions were self-executing.
- The courts would have the power to directly enforce the provisions that are self-executing.
- Congress would have the power to directly legislate on all subjects necessary to comply with the treaty. This would constitute the most massive shift of power from the states to the federal government in American history.
- A committee of 18 experts from other nations, sitting in Geneva, has the authority to issue official interpretations of the treaty which are entitled to binding weight in American courts and legislatures. This effectively transfers ultimate authority for all policies in this area to this foreign committee.
- Under international law, the treaty overrides even our Constitution.
- Reservations, declarations, or understandings intended to modify our duty to comply with this treaty will be void if they are determined to be inconsistent with the object and purpose of the treaty.
- 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.
- Christian schools that refuse to teach “alternative worldviews” and teach that Christianity is the only true religion “fly in the face of article 29″ of the treaty.
- 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.
- Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.
- A murderer aged 17 years and 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.
