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| Date: From: Subject: | 11/26/2012 4:47:46 PM Mike Smith--HSLDA Senate to Vote on UN Disabilities Treaty on Wednesday: Calls Needed Immediately |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Senate to Vote on UN Disabilities Treaty on Wednesday: Calls Needed Immediately Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, Yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) announced that the Senate will vote to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) treaty on Wednesday. We need you to call your two senators immediately, and urge them to oppose the CRPD. If the U.S. Senate were to ratify the CRPD, this would give the United Nations the power to influence and change domestic law and threaten parental rights and homeschool freedom http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16297 . Thirty-six senators have signed a letter http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16298 stating that they "respectfully request that no treaties be brought to the Senate floor for advice and consent during the lame-duck session of the 112th Congress." These senators have promised in the letter that they "will oppose efforts to consider a treaty during this time." Senator Reid has purposefully ignored this letter by promising to file cloture by Wednesday http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16299 (if 60 senators vote to invoke cloture, a filibuster http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16300 will be ended) and will make every attempt to proceed to the CRPD for ratification this week. Ratification of the CRPD will take a two-thirds vote of the Senate, or 67 senators to vote in favor of the CRPD if all 100 are present. We need you to call both of your U.S. senators right now and ask them to oppose the CRPD. You can use our Congressional Directory http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16301 to find your senators' contact information. Please give them some or all of this message: "I urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect disabled Americans. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families. If the Senate ratifies this treaty, it would be the first time ever that the U.S. has ratified a treaty that obligates us to recognize economic, social, and cultural entitlements as rights under domestic law." Then, please forward this email to your friends and family and urge them to call, as well. Please also post this information on social media to help get the word out to every parent and freedom loving person in America. 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