“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.
The U.N. adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Nov. 20, 1989. By Sept. 2, 1990, 20 nations signed on to enforce the treaty. Currently, with the exception of the United States and Somalia, 193 nations have signed on to enforce it.
Nations that ratify U.N. treaties are bound to adhere to them by international law.
The convention established an 18-member panel to oversee children’s rights in nations that are part of the treaty. If approved by the Senate, the United States would fall under the jurisdiction of this panel.
DeMint said the threat to parental rights is “not some theoretical threat.”
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.”
“It submits our federal laws, our national laws to this treaty,” DeMint told CNSNews.com. “And the fact is that we don’t know exactly how it’s going to run, but we know how bureaucracy works. Once a precedent is established and we have yielded control, we know that it will continue to grow. So the precedent is almost worse than the immediate details.”
DeMint also said that the treaty is superfluous because there are laws already that safeguard abused children in the United States.
amen maybe there is someone in the senate with some sense
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ReplyDeleteThe US needs to cut the doggone chain that it has binding it to the UN, tell the miserable ba$tards to take their organization to some third world country (before they drag us down to that level), and we'll either buy the UN complex outright and put it to good use (like a home for veterans) or bulldoze it into the East River.
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ReplyDeleteWhat you may or may not know is that the UN Site was donated and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The UN is our real government - the traditional US Constitutional government has been abandoned.
The Constitution no longer worked well for the elite financial oligarchs who own our country and the natural resources in our land. It placed many restrictions on what they could do. Therefore a New World Order is emerging - one that is more to their liking.
They have been ordained by their god to rule over the rest of us. As a matter of fact, about 80% of us will need to be eliminated over the next generation or so so that the the remaining natural resources can be fully enjoyed by the elite. Some of us will be needed to serve them - and those people have already begun a life of servitude in the police ranks, military, and educational fields.
A lot of change is coming. All for the better. Remember, their god has chosen them. They are elite. They are qualitatively better than the rest of us. They are the true descendents of Abraham and Issac. Very soon now, their Messiah will arrive and lead them to their promised land. Until then, their work for preparation must be done through the United Nations.
Everything will be fine.