Or you could just ask me and my friend who testified at our state legislature yesterday. Either way, you will hear what it is like to go through the looking glass!
Thanks to PalmTreePundit for blogging about this issue while we were driving to the hearing of the Committee on International Affairs.
My friend and I were the only people who testified against the resolutions (text found here and here) before the committee.
Short version is this: The UN created the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and Lyla Berg wanted Hawaii to adopt the UNCRC as well as urge the US Senate to do so. Rights for children. Conjures visions of innocence and playfulness. Sounds nice enough, right? Well, not so fast.
Here are some of the rights given to children in the UNCRC:
"the right to privacy," "the right to freedom of thought and association," and the right to "freedom of expression."
Parents have no rights enumerated, but are given responsibility to further the independent choices of the child.
Take that list of rights, shake it up with a group of teenagers and imagine the fallout.
Further, the UN has clearly shown itself to be an absolute nightmare of ineffectiveness and corruption. (I'm sure it means well somewhere deep inside, but it is does not exactly demonstrate a real understanding of right and wrong.) If the UN were a neighbor, no one would take its advice on family matters of any kind. The thought of it as a legal entity with rights of enforcement of its standards is scary. Picture Tony Soprano telling you how to rear your kids, and you get the idea.
It was a crazy day, to say the least. We'll be attending another committee hearing on these same issues, so please do keep us in your prayers.
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