ANOTHER international agreement that has stirred the ire of the right.

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9 Members of Idaho Legislature Block International Child Support Treaty

An international agreement to make it easier to enforce child support orders throughout the world is in danger of not being ratified in the United States because of nine conservative lawmakers in Idaho. The Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance has been approved by 32 countries and 19 U.S. states.

But when the treaty came up in the Idaho legislature, nine members of the House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee balked at sending legislation endorsing the agreement to the full House for consideration. Without Idaho, the treaty will be dead in the U.S. because all 50 states must approve it.

Republican Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll led the opposition to the measure, testifying to the House committee that it would subject Idaho to Sharia law, according to the Associated Press. Ironically, the measure easily was passed by the state senate.

Still other state lawmakers may have reacted negatively to the treaty because of “Idaho’s ornery streak, the part of the state’s identity that does not like the federal government — or, worse still, foreign governments — telling it what to do,” according to The New York Times’ Kirk Johnson. Rep. Ryan Kerby said he voted against it because he felt the federal government was implying, “You need to sign it, and if you don’t we’re going to beat the crud out of you. They were incredibly rude.”

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/9-members-of-idaho-legislature-block-international-child-support-treaty-150423?news=856314

It looks like this international treaty on enforcing child support might fall victim the conservative nativism mixed with its usual does of Islamophobia. Add this treaty to the long list of international agreements that the right hates: the Law of the Sea treaty, the UN Disability Rights treaty, the Arms Trade treaty and a host of others. Diplomatic negotiation of international issues is just not part of the right's way of doing things.