Sunday, June 28, 2009

US Congress to dictate parental rights?

My niece Cristina emailed this link: http://www.parentalrights.org/

I took some excerpts from it: The numbered links take you to the actual wording...

Ten things you need to know about the substance of the CRC:

Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.11.

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.12.

Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.13.

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.14.

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.15.

According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children’s welfare.16.

Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.17.

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.18.

Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.19.

Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.20.

What do you think? Remember folks, it's not so much what is said in the bill rather what it doesn't say, innocuously vague statements opens the door to "interpretation" by the courts. You know it, I know it, and everybody else should know it. The time of complacency is over... WAKE UP!

2 comments:

  1. I posted the link to my Facebook page and many of my Obama friends, who were quick to have "discussions" during the election season, are interestingly quiet now! I really wanted someone to give me a different perspective about this other than, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" but so far, no one has shared! It's frustrating! But people blindly follow Obama and are not even paying attention to what he's up to and that's the scariest of all! They just believed Bush was this evil oppressor and now that Obama is in office, they can just sit back and not worry. HELLO? They really are not paying attention, and when I try to point things out, they just seem to be disregarding it! I will have to personally engage in discussions instead of my Facebook posts. This is ridiculous!

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  2. Wow my Jaw Just dropped Thanks for Sharing,Gonna go Tweet about this too

    Thanks so much for doing this blog !!

    ~Huck

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