The following is a guest post by Carley Lee-Lampshire.

Senate Republicans voted against supporting the international United Nations treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which would update all previous policies to meet the regulations created by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The treaty would affect the estimated 650 million disabled people or about 10 percent of the world’s population.

In response to World War II, the United Nations was created “to employ its full resources, military or economic” in “the struggle for victory over Hitlerism”. It has since grown in size as a peacekeeping body and international forum. As it expands the U.N. may encroach upon U.S. sovereignty. “I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK. Continue reading →