Posted on 06/05/2002 12:54:41 PM PDT by madfly
From email:
Dear Colleague,
If you have not done so yet, call the White House right now and tell them to "Un-Sign CEDAW."
(pronounced See-Daw, rhymes with Hee-Haw).
CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) is the most dangerous treaty the US has ever considered ratifying. Some call it the ERA on steroids, or the ERA with a vengeance. CEDAW seeks to drive women from the home and to drive children into day care.
CEDAW seeks to eliminate Mother's Day.
Sounds crazy, but its true.
The CEDAW committee has
Pressured China to legalize prostitution
Pressured Kyrgyzstan to legalize lesbianism
Criticized Ireland for being too Catholic
Pressured Ireland to legalize abortion
Pressued Belarus to cancel Mother's Day
Pressured Libya to reinterpret the Koran to fall within CEDAW guidelines
Some in the US government are attempting to get us to ratify this treaty.
This must be stopped.
Right now, as we speak, the Bush Administration is determining its position on CEDAW. You can affect that position by calling the White House and saying, "Un-Sign CEDAW." (Rhymes with Hee-Haw). The number is
202-456-1111. They are waiting for your call.
Do it now!
And for added impact, email Secretary of State Colin Powell at
secretary@state.gov
and write, "Mr. Secretary, Un-Sign CEDAW."
Do these things right now.
THEY are deciding.
WE can stop the radicals right in their tracks.
Do it.
Call the White House at 202-456-1111 and email the Secretary of State at secretary@state.gov and tell them "Un-Sign CEDAW."
And tell all your friends. SPREAD THE WORD.
Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse
President
C-FAM
Right now, as we speak, the Bush Administration is determining its position on CEDAW. You can affect that position by calling the White House and saying, "Un-Sign CEDAW." (Rhymes with Hee-Haw). The number is
202-456-1111. They are waiting for your call.
Do it now!
And for added impact, email Secretary of State Colin Powell at
secretary@state.gov
and write, "Mr. Secretary, Un-Sign CEDAW."
Do these things right now.
THEY are deciding.
WE can stop the radicals right in their tracks.
Do it.
Call the White House
"Resistance to the emerging global capitalist order has been similarly mobilized by appealing to biological determinist notions of masculinity. Scholars have pointed out the ways in which religious fundamentalism and ethnic nationalism use local cultural symbols to express regional resistance to incorporation by a larger, dominant power (see especially Jurgensmeyer 1995 and Barber 1995). These religious and ethnic expressions are often manifest as gender revolts, and include a virulent resurgence of domestic patriarchy (or militant misogyny); the problematization of global masculinities or neighboring masculinities (as in the former Yugoslavia); and the overt symbolic efforts to claim a distinct "manhood" along religious or ethnic lines to which others do not have access and which will restore manhood to the formerly privileged. In effect, masculinity becomes a rhetorical currency by which opposition to global integration, state centralization and increasing ethnic heterogeneity can be mobilized. In such cases, we expect to find ideas of traditional, local masculinities and their accompanying hierarchies reaffirmed. Typically, as Connell notes (1998: 17), "hardline masculine fundamentalism goes together with a marked anti-internationalism"."This is another one of those examples of feminist activism where if you take the word "man" and replaced it with the word "Jew" or "Black" you would assume that you were reading something spewed out by the PLA or the KKK. This is the real reason you want to get on the horn and tell your congresscritter to oppose this bigoted piece of international socialist garbage before their chivalry hormones kick in and somebody convinces them that it's "for the children."
Thank you for being in touch with me with your thoughts on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Treaty.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is an international bill of rights for women. It is based on the premise that in many parts of the world, women have not enjoyed, to the same extent as men, the basic rights and protections outlined in international human rights agreements and conventions. CEDAW brings together, in a single comprehensive human rights treaty, the provisions of previous United Nations' instruments concerning discrimination on the basis of sex, and extends them to create a tool dedicated to the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.
The Convention requires States Parties to eliminate discrimination against women in the areas of civil, political, economic, and cultural rights. It also establishes measures for States to pursue to achieve equal protection for women and men of their human rights. States are obliged to work for equality in public life, for example, in the realm of legal status and political participation, and also in private life and customs. For example, in pursuing CEDAW's goals, States Parties are encouraged to introduce measures to prevent the unhealthy practice of genital mutilation.
The Convention was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in December 1979. Ratification was rapid, and Treaty came into force on September 3, 1981. As I am sure you are aware, today 169 countries - more than two-thirds of the members of the United Nations - are party to the Convention. The Carter Administration signed it in July 1980, and it has been waiting for Senate approval since that time.
CEDAW's goals are very ambitious, and it will certainly take a great deal of time, patience, and focus to achieve them. Some critics oppose the notion of an international convention to guarantee women's rights around the world. I support the concept of trying to ensure that women around the world receive basic rights similar to those guaranteed to every American under our own Bill of Rights. For many years, American missionaries, religious organizations, and other Americans have worked hard to promote the rights and protections that American citizens enjoy. I hope the deliberations on CEDAW will provide an opportunity to review whether this Treaty can serve the same purpose.
Because of some of the questions and misconceptions about CEDAW, I think it is important to share what the Treaty is not about. This Treaty is not designed to push for radical changes. It addresses the importance of equality for women throughout the world - whether they are in traditional families or working to provide for their families on their own. I believe that it is critical for the United States to be supportive of women's equality around the world. CEDAW does not impose a radical or even specific agenda, but instead encourages all countries to promote higher standards of treatment and protection for women. It does not promote "same-sex marriages," which at any rate are prohibited in the United States by the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
I appreciate hearing from you, and I want to be very sensitive to your concerns and interests when CDAW is deliberated in the Senate. In light of the many different views and perspectives that exist in West Virginia and around the world towards issues like this, I hope we can continue finding common, constructive ways to strengthen the lives of women around the world, and particularly in countries where women do not enjoy the most basic of human rights. Again, thank you so much for sharing your views.
Sincerely,
John D. Rockefeller IV
How dare Rockef***er use "The Bill of Rights" and "the U.N." in the same letter!!
Hate creates violence.
Violence creates war.
The poltically correct say they do it to SAVE humanity, but the very thing they say they're trying to prevent is mulitplying in stregth every day because of political correctness docturine.
There's more hate in the world today because of political correctness and the thought police than ever before.
The liberals are out to destroy America.
Either by other nations deciding they've had enough of the liberal crap, or simply from within.
Either way, they're killing us. They're signing all our death warrents.
"Ten nations will gather together in secret and come against Babylon the great and destroy her. The kings of the earth who have grown rich off her luxeries will mourn. Merchant ships will dare not go near her shores."
To Armenia: “The Committee strongly urged the Government to use the education system and the electronic media to combat the traditional stereotype of women 'in the noble role of mother.'”
To Belarus: “The Committee is concerned by the continuing prevalence of sex–role stereotypes and by the reintroduction of such symbols as Mother's Day and a Mother's Award, which it sees as encouraging women's traditional roles.” CEDAW also condemned legislation in Georgia that “overemphasizes the role of women as mothers…[and] promotes the role of man as breadwinner.” CEDAW admonished Croatia and the Czech Republic for similar reasons.
These two REALLY, REALLY, REALLY frosted my underalls!! How dare someone presume to speak for all us "women" in this perverted fashion!! They realize that a great many of us are perfectly happy and content to fulfill our TRADITIONAL roles as wives and mothers and to be sheltered and loved by our husbands and they also realize that unless they pass laws that will put us out of the visible loop in favor of the lesbians and other deviants over at NOW, they will never actually get the Orwellian, gender-neutral world that they crave. OVER MY DEAD BODY!! Getting on the phone to Washington NOW.
How could they do that?
Molon Labe !!
We're overstepping our boundries. Who are we to tell others what rights they should have or not? This bothers me.
I translate this as "Straight men bad, gay men good."
We really need to ambush Powell.
Right now, as we speak, the Bush Administration is determining its position on CEDAW. You can affect that position by calling the White House and saying, "Un-Sign CEDAW." (Rhymes with Hee-Haw). The number is
202-456-1111. They are waiting for your call.
Do it now!
And for added impact, email Secretary of State Colin Powell at
secretary@state.gov
and write, "Mr. Secretary, Un-Sign CEDAW."
Do these things right now.
THEY are deciding.
WE can stop the radicals right in their tracks.
Do it. Call the White House
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