Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick calls for defeat of the UN disabilities treaty

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Ahead of Tuesday’s hearings on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) urged supporters to phone their senators and voice opposition to the CRPD.

"CRPD threatens U.S. sovereignty and parental rights, and if ratified, it would effectively put us under international law when it comes to parenting our special needs children,” Santorum wrote in an email to Patriot Voices, the conservative outside group he founded “to protect faith, freedom.”

The unsuccessful presidential hopeful continued, "If you haven't called your Senators to express your opposition to this treaty that threatens our national sovereignty and could interfere with the kind of care we give to our special needs kids, now is the time to do it.”

With nearly one billion people worldwide living with a disability, the purpose of the CRPD, or Disabilities Treaty, is to promote and protect the fundamental human rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities on a global scale -- just like its model, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law by Republican President George H.W. Bush. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/rick-santorum-disabilities-treaty_n_4220751.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

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2. Sorry Scuba, I couldn't help myself.