Good example of everything that is wrong with the religious right's approach to knowledge and policy. (Why the US just rejected a treaty based on its own laws - Quartz). Religious conservatives objected to this treaty (based on the ADA) because many feared it would infringe on homeschoolers and/or encourage abortions of disabled fetuses. I honestly don't understand how one could legitimately fear either, and neither did most adults in the room.
This is a good example of religious conservatives pushing fringe and conspiracy theories and a great example of how far to the right the GOP has moved in the last 16 years. On the floor for the vote, was former Senator and Presidential candidate Bob Dole. Dole is in ill health and left the hospital to try and lobby for this ratification vote--after all he worked this treaty for years. But for 38 Republicans, Bob Dole was part of the establishment who would surrender American sovereignty to the evil UN. We often joke that Ronald Reagan could not get elected in this context, but the party may be shifting so far to the right that even George W. Bush may have trouble with the base today.
Either way it is sad for both people of faith and for our public policy.
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