Bipartison Senate Support for Invasive UN Treaty

Statement

A small group of Republican and Democratic US senators are joining under the leadership of Senator McCain to ratify the UN Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities. Our own Senator Barrasso has given support to the ratification.

This treaty is an insult to the people of Wyoming. Pressing for its passage sends the message that we care so little about the disadvantaged that we need the supervision of an international body in order to treat our families and neighbors with care and respect. Further, it is an example of Democrats and Republican reaching across the aisle to strip our basic rights -- property rights, parental rights, and rights of sovereignty.
Among other things, this treaty:

Places control of disability law with the UN, removing it from the states and the people, and requiring that national law conform to UN standards.

Taken literally could require home owners to make private homes handicapped accessible.

Places education decisions about disabled children with governments instead of parents.

Is being promoted as providing disabled veterans with handicapped access overseas, while stripping the freedoms at home that they sacrificed for.

Basic human rights do not change or go away just because a person is disabled or different in some way. Trying to create special rights for identity groups degrades human rights and human relations.

As a US Senator, I would work to restore our rights so we may better direct our own lives. It is best when decisions are made closer to home, rather than by international, national, state, or even overactive local officials.

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