| May 3, 2011
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State Resolutions
PRA Resolutions passed: Louisiana, South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Florida!
Resolutions against the CRC passed: Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama!
Resolutions pending: Georgia, Hawaii, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas (more to come!)
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SR99 Has 37 Sponsors With the addition of Senators Corker and Alexander of Tennessee, the resolution to prevent ratification of the CRC has 37 sponsors. Visit ParentalRights.org/ status to see if your Senators are on board, and call them if they are not.
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| The Fate of the Invader Ten years ago, Osama bin Laden was planning the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history. Today, his body lies at the bottom of the North Arabian Sea, courtesy of U.S. Navy Seals.
The fact is, we Americans love our country and its freedoms so much that trying to take them away from us is never a winning proposition. It can even equate to signing one’s own death warrant, as bin Laden’s al Qaeda followers can now attest.
The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is another would-be invader which seeks to take freedom away from American families, and give the federal government (under U.N. scrutiny) authority over every parenting decision we make. But like bin Laden, this would-be invader is destined to defeat at the hands of the American people. The last thing supporters of the CRC want is for the American people to wake up and take action.
On March 23, the Rhode Island legislature held a public hearing on a resolution that would call on the U.S. Senate to support ratification of the CRC. But so many parental rights supporters called or attended that meeting that the resolution never made it out of committee. Days later, there were so many calls in opposition to a similar resolution in Illinois that plans to bring it to the committee were nixed; the matter was never even brought up for discussion.
Meanwhile, 37 U.S. Senators so far have committed to stand against any effort to ratify the CRC by sponsoring SR99. Only 34 supporting SR99 are enough to block CRC ratification.
Still, all of these are short-term solutions to a treaty that will not go away. Now that it has been proposed, now that it has been signed (by Madeline Albright for the Clinton administration in 1995), it remains a threat – until we pass the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that is.
Section Three of the proposed Amendment will establish, “No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.” Once adopted, this language will remove from the President and Senate forever the authority to ratify any treaty that would hinder the free exercise of fundamental parental rights, including the CRC.
For those who say we can never pass the Amendment, or that it will take too long, I would point to Osama bin Laden. How many people thought we would never catch up to him? Yet we Americans can be amazingly persistent when our freedoms and the safety of our children are on the line – and in the end, that persistence can prove irresistible. Just ask the remnants of al Qaeda about that! Action Items In order to hold off pro-CRC efforts and to see the Parental Rights Amendment ratified, we must continue to grow our list of supporters. Please encourage your family and friends to visit parentalrights.org and sign the petition to join our email network. That way, like you they will receive alerts when phone calls are needed to your state or federal representatives.
In fact, you can use this email message to spread the word. Forward it to friends, post it on Facebook or Twitter (click here and use the orange Share button), blog about it, send the top portion as a letter to the editor, put it in your congregation’s bulletin, make a flier to hand out at sport games and events, etc.
Also, if you can, please donate to support our on-going efforts. Each email like this costs about $50. Perhaps you could fund one of these mailings. Plus, with your donation of $35 or more we will send you a free copy of The Child documentary on DVD, along with 2 ParentalRights.org decals and a bumper sticker. Won’t you help today?
Together, we will ultimately see this victory for American freedom and for the safety of our children!
Sincerely,
Michael Ramey
Director of Communications & Research |
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