Wed, Feb 14, 2007

Below I've included a recent email exchange with a dear cousin who is actively and passionately involved in this very important cause.

Here is a brief abstract of that exchange:

• There is a U.N. Treaty that would have much more severe effects on the family than the E.R.A. would have had.
• It could come up for a vote in the Senate any day now.
• It carries the misleading and dishonest name of the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," and is more commonly known as CEDAW.
• President Carter signed the CEDAW treaty agreement in 1979, but the Senate has not yet ratified it.
• Under Article VI of the Constitution, all treaties made by the Executive and ratified by the Senate are "the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
• Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden are planning to get it passed, perhaps as early as this March, 2007.
• Here are some examples of U.N. actions under the treaty:
  • Ordered Belarus to stop celebrating Mother's Day ("it reinforces a sex-role stereotype").
  • Encouraged Communist China to legalize prostitution (where abortions are already forced).
  • Told Slovenia that not enough ot their three-year-old children are attending government day care.
  • Recommended Ireland change its constitution to stop "promoting a stereotypical view of the role of women in the home and as mothers."
  • Complained that Armenia honored "the traditional stereotype of women in the noble role of mother."
  • Directed Germany to open more childcare centers so more mothers could leave the home and go to work.
  • Criticized Mexico for its "lack of access to easy and swift abortions."
• Four groups that are currently working together for ratification:
  • Center for Women Policy Studies
  • League of Women Voters -- founded by Alice Paul, author of the original ERA
  • Women's Environmental & Development Organization -- Bella Abzug co-founder
  • Open Society -- front group for George Soros
  Senator Joe Biden is now Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and has made ratification of this treaty a "top priority."

Her email to me (and to many others): This is Urgent News...

... this is a political subject, [and] it's also a deeply religious issue and needs to be made known to everyone in our land -- so, that's why I'm writing you today, and I hope you'll pass the word on to people who are important to you -- people who love their families and want to see motherhood continue to be honored and cherished!!

There is a U.N. Treaty that I wasn't aware of before today (or if I was, I no longer remember it being mentioned before) -- one that would have much more severe effects than the E.R.A. would ever have had... and that was one we successfully defeated many years ago. This one is so much worse, and the very bad news is that it could come up for a vote before the Senate any day now. I hope this doesn't reach you too late!!

This treaty carries the misleading and dishonest name of the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," more commonly known as CEDAW. It is "anti-woman, anti-family, anti-American and anti-Christian"! President Carter first signed the CEDAW treaty agreement back in 1979, but the Senate never ratified it; so it sat around for well over 20 years with hardly any notice. Now a few of our Senators (among them Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden) are planning to get this thing passed, and they're acting like it would be "anti women's rights" not to pass it!!

Here are some of the orders the CEDAW Committee (controlled by 23 unelected, America-hating foreign feminists) has had on other nations who passed CEDAW:

• Ordered Belarus to stop celebrating Mother's Day ("it reinforces a sex-role stereotype")
• Encouraged Communist China to legalize prostitution (where abortions are already forced)
• Told Slovenia that not enough ot their three-yr-old children are attending govt day care!
• Recommended Ireland change its constitution to stop "promoting a stereotypical view of the role of women in the home and as mothers"
• Complained that Armenia honored "the traditional stereotype of women in the noble role of mother"
• Directed Germany to open more childcare centers so more mothers could leave the home and go to work... (I am SO grateful that all our daughters & daughters-in-law have chosen to be home -- and I do not want to see any outside interference with that!!!)
• Criticized Mexico for its "lack of access to easy and swift abortions"

Are you getting the picture? And these orders have gone to countries that really don't have to follow them... but if this were passed by our Senate, do you know what that would mean? Under Article VI of our Constitution, all treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate are "THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND and the judges in EVERY State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding"!!!! If this gets ratified, it WILL BE LAW. Do I sound a little alarmed? I AM!! All federal, state, and local laws, regulations and ordinances will have to fall into compliance with this treaty!! I work for the court system, and I know how quickly laws get enforced here at the local level. I am persuaded that this would be our worst nightmare!!

If you want to read more on this, there is an organization that's trying to get the word out. Here is their website: www.cwalac.org -- look for "Project 535 Lobbies Against CEDAW" and then click on any highlighted word in that article... and after that, make sure you contact your senators and tell them you are opposed to the CEDAW treaty -- if you are.

I am....

My email to her: Re: This is Urgent News...

Do you see any current actions on the part of the Foreign Relations committee or lobbyists to take this off the table and bring it up for a vote. Hopefully the 27 years of [Senate] inaction since Carter's duplicitous, if not traitorous, signing will extend into the forseeable future...

Her email to me: Keep up the vigilance...

I took my information from a 6-pg mailing from CWA (Concerned Women for America), and they were pointing out that the liberals are trying to build grassroots support for the ratification of CEDAW by holding Town Hall forums/debates across the nation -- with four groups working together (Center for Women Policy Studies www.centerwomenpolicy.org ; League of Women Voters www.lwv.org - founded by Alice Paul, author of the original ERA; Women's Environmental & Development Organization www.wedo.org - Bella Abzug co-founder; and Open Society - front group for George Soros) -- so, you get the idea of what/who we're up against in addition to the liberal Senators I told you about -- and there was lots more on their agendas... scarey stuff!

"Senator Joe Biden is now Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 2002 he held hearings on CEDAW and made it clear that in no uncertain terms, it was and remains a top priority of the liberals to ratify this treaty. Their goal is to use the CEDAW treaty as a political tool to advance the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. She has to prove her liberal credentials to her base as she runs nationwide. Liberal pro-abortion, pro-homosexual women are her prime target and the CEDAW treaty is the best weapon in her arsenal."

I think I read on CWA's website (www.cwalac.org) that this could be up for a vote in early March... but I can't recall where exactly I read it. So, you might want to contact CWA directly for more information. They're trying to keep us informed on this, for which I'm grateful; and I hope more good people will wake up... We talked to our son Jace about this tonight, and he said he knows all about CEDAW because of his studies on the International Criminal Court and some family conferences he attended with a BYU law professor, but he's the only one we talked with who was aware of how bad this thing is. He's of the opinion that our Senators would not be crazy enough to pass it, but we no longer have as many good Senators in place as we used to have... so, I think it's just not worth the risk. We need to get the word out.

Anyway, that's what I think -- and I'm probably very sensitive to this because I'm now a grandmother myself and don't want to jeopardize the future of our grandchildren. I could go on and on about what I've seen in court -- just not a good idea to make it harder for mothers than it already is...........

So -- keep up the vigilance....