Will lawmakers have final say in parenting?

As if parental rights are not under constant attack already, a great threat to the desires and wishes of parents in raising their children is looming.  As Citizenlink.com (a division of Focus on the Family) reports, “U.S. senators are under pressure to ratify a U.N. treaty that could give government the last word on parenting decisions.”

At the center of this firestorm is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This treaty gives “the government the power to override decisions of good parents when their choices differ from the paths favored by the progressive Left.”

More specifically, parental rights concerning the “ability to direct their children’s spiritual upbringing, as well as what – and when – they learn about sexuality” would all be in danger. As if teen sex, pregnancy, and spiritual matters are better left in the hands of the government?

This is just another obvious example of the radical left’s attempt to undermine parents that intend to raise their children with the strong conservative values that help shape America. This can be described as nothing more than political game-play with the welfare of our children intended to brainwash them into being political pawns.

However, thankfully, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has offered a resolution (S.R. 519) to defeat adoption of the UN treaty and preserve parental rights. Sen. DeMint believes that the UN treaty “undermines traditional principles of law in the United States, regarding parents and children,” and offers an example in which “the United Kingdom was found to be in violation of the Convention … for allowing parents to exercise a right to opt their children out of sex education courses in the public schools, without a prior government review of the wishes of the child.”

Nope, that is not a typo. The United Kingdom was in violation of the UN’s UNCRC because they allowed parents to make the decision to pull their kids out of sex education classes and did not check with the kids first. This truly is a dangerous treaty that would bind the United States government to an international law in which parents have fewer rights over their kids than government.

The bottom line is that neither the government nor children themselves know what is best for kids in raising them. That responsibility belongs to good parents that seek the best for their children. (The full article can be viewed here.)

The Citizenlink Action Center offers quick and easy methods of contacting your Senators to ask them to help defeat adoption of this terrible UN Treaty. Sen. DeMint has 30 co-sponsors for S.R. 519 and needs just 34 total to defeat the treaty. Take action today.

 Nathan A. Cherry lives in Bunker Hill with his wife and two children. He is a contributing blogger for the Family Policy Council of West Virginia as well as Eastern Panhandle Moms. Nathan is the Connection Pastor at New Hope Church in Inwood West Virginia where he serves to connect folks into places of service both within the church and in the community.