In Case You Missed It: Republicans Reject UN Disabled Rights Treaty

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This one is from earlier in the week, and I meant to say something about it before. WTF is wrong with Republicans, specifically the tea party breed, the ones who'd give a flying fig what Rick Santorum has to say about anything? Honestly, a two-thirds vote on a treaty that defends disabled people's rights, blocked by 38 Senators. And for what? Some deeply weird fears about sovereignty and home schoolers' right? What?

As a liberal-minded atheist, I'm often deeply suspicious of home schoolers. Most often, they seem to be paranoid religious kooks who find the public school system to be insufficiently Jesus-y. I think they do a disservice to their children, more often than not. But try as I may, I can't find the objection. I can't find anything that has anything to do with home schoolers or their rights. And I think it's embarrassing that they voted this treaty down over Bob Dole's wheelchair.

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US Senate rejects UN treaty on disability rights amid GOP opposition

Led by Republican opposition, the Senate on Tuesday rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled that is modeled after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. . .

Read more at: The Guardian