Why I don't support the UN Treaty on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act

Recently I asked friends and family to tell their Congressman to not support this UN Treaty.  Some have asked for me to clarify what I don't like about it.  Here are my humble thoughts:

Sovereignty.  This is my biggest problem.  Some say  that the family will still  be considered the primary unit in society, yet I see (and so many others do too) that our rights as US citizens may eventually be brought down just as it is in Scotland right now. 

    

  Scotland, a UN country, who has accepted the CRPD (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) and the CRC (UN Convention on the Rights of Children) is now changing their laws to be more in compliance with this treaty.  Their new law which is called the "Children and Young People Bill" has certain components which undermine the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.....in essence it is substituting the governments authority over the family. Some of those elements are "Corporate Parenting", having a "named person"--social worker assigned to each and every child at birth until 18 to oversee the child.  The 'Well Being Doctrine' is of grave concern in my opinion.  All of these things are in direct contradiction with parents unalienable rights to parent and raise a child how they feel, not to mention the "Family-- A Proclamation to the World".

I see that the government is once again stepping into an area they have no right to be.  The Constitution was established to protect our sovereignty from other nations.....not to become another European nation.  The Lord established his country with this in mind.  He raised our Founding Fathers, as he quotes "great men" so we can have this land to freely worship and live.  

In fairness, this issue, for me, is strongly slanted towards keeping the right to homeschool.  Germany, Belgium, and Australia are treating their homeschooling citizens with contempt.  This is not something I want our government to emulate.

I know many people don't see things the same way I do in regards to education, but this could easily happen in the medical or religious sides of life.  

All this said, one other thing needs to be mentioned....why do we need the UN treaty?  We have good laws already in place.  If we need these changed our law has a place established for that.  But if we take this out of our hands and place it with the UN, what recourse do we have?  It's already so hard to deal with the government do we really want to add another bureaucratic layer?

Many of our problems with government, education and social, in my opinion lay in the fact that their are to many layers.  

Recently I knew of someone who didn't fit the criteria for government help...but you could see that she really did need help.  A local person (social worker)  should be able to look at the whole situation, not just part of the problem using a pre-determined facts chart from some governing body hundreds of miles away to decide if help should be given, could make the decision....(they went to college to learn this, didn't they?) Yes we need standards, but we also have brains and can think with them to do the best we know in every situation.   Conversely, I've also seen some who play the system and get so much and not really need it.   To Many Layers.  

In my opinion, true help-- the way Christ tells us it should be-- lies with people, churches, community, not the government.

I find this to be true with what I understand of Common Core.  While I don't understand everything in terms of Common Core, it has some good attributes....but overall really bad ones too. 

 A teacher spends so much time learning and studying to be a teacher.  Let. Them. Teach.  I know we need standards but teachers who knows their students and and what they really need should be able to help them in a way that is best for them.  Recently, a friend told me about her daughter's teacher telling her (my friend) how much she hates having to spend time teaching something that she knows her students are not ready for, but she must because the federal government mandated it.  Of course there are so many facets to this...with so many other issues to deal with but overall, I feel it's pretty much the same thing.  To Many Layers.

Decisions of child care, education, health and welfare of children lay with parents.  I know there are some who don't take this responsibility.  The family is crumbling.  I don't have all the answers, but this treaty isn't one we should take on. (in my humble opinion :)

Interestingly enough we are studying the Civil War in history right now.  Many people think it's all about Slavery....and it is, but it isn't....but it really is.  Here's my thoughts:

The North claims that slavery is wrong (and it is) sooo, even though the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was established many people of the north refused to follow this law.  The South saw this and said, well if they can pick and choose which laws to follow, we can too.  We don't want to be a part of this union anymore.  They saw this issue as a State's Rights issue.  Each state should be able to govern themselves and not enact to many laws that don't represent the people of that state....namely they wanted the right to keep slaves for economic reasons. (Economy was another huge facet of this war.)

I too, am a believer of states rights....don't let the layers get to thick!  The South wanted the right to self govern to protect their self claimed right to have slaves  (never mind the whole fact that they were taking the slaves unalienable rights away from them by this decision....but that's another issue to deal with)

But they only fought for State's Rights for the cause of keeping slavery. That's it.  And that is wrong.

I've never really understood this with the Civil War.  I can see the South's point in light of what is going on in our society and nation now.  I believe we need to keep our sovereignty as a nation and as families.  But I'm finding so many others don't see it this way.  Tocqueville summed up what seems to be going on now quite well.  Life is so much easier when others make decisions for you....isn't it?  Or is it?

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.”
—Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America