Excerpt from: Orlando Sentinel (click for full article)
Even in a year filled with lowlights in Congress, this one stands out as shameful: the U.S. Senate's rejection this month of an international treaty promoting the rights of people with disabilities.
The treaty, which the administration of former President George W. Bush helped negotiate, makes the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act a model for nations across the globe. It would not change any U.S. law. It has been ratified by 126 other countries.
Yet Republican critics of the treaty claimed it would somehow violate U.S. sovereignty because it would be overseen by the United Nations. Some even told the tall tale that it would give orders to Americans parents who home-school children with disabilities. They dismissed assurances to the contrary from supporters.
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