We need your help again
to promote the Family at the UN!

Dear Supporter of the Family,

As we reported in a previous alert, in preparation for a UN Summit of world leaders in mid-September on progress toward achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN delegates have been negotiating an important document that will outline the UN’s five-year plan of action for achieving these goals.  The MDGs are a set of development objectives that virtually all the nations in the world have endorsed.

However, glaringly absent in the current draft of the document is any mention of the critical role of the family in achieving these goals.  This is the case even though the family is recognized in many other important UN documents as the “fundamental unit of society.”

Instead of always being on the defense in trying to stop the UN from promoting anti-family measures, it is time for us to go on the offense and preempt anti-family interpretations of this important document by making sure it recognizes the role of the family.  

You may recall that several weeks ago we asked you to contact UN delegations on this same problem.  Negotiations on the document were supposed to have concluded three weeks ago when we sent our previous alert.  But since member states were unable to come to a consensus then, negotiations will resume on August 30th.  Family Watch volunteers are currently working with country delegates to encourage them to recognize the important role of the family in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

This is where we need your help!

Some of the UN country voting blocs are forming their positions on family issues right now, so we are asking for you to act now.  Please click here to send an email to 168 UN delegations urging them to recognize the role of the family in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.  You can easily send a suggested email message to all of these delegations with just the click of your mouse.

Even if you sent an email in response to our last alert, please email them again!

If this MDG planning document fails to recognize the primacy of the family, then governments will feel free to ignore the rights of parents and families in education and healthcare decisions in their attempts to achieve these goals. We must ensure that governments recognize the important role of the family in achieving the MDGs relating to education and health.  

Please pass this alert on to everyone you know who believes in the importance of preserving the family.  It is essential that UN delegations hear from hundreds of people in each of the 170 countries where we have Family Watch subscribers!

Finally, we had not planned on these negotiations being prolonged, so any help you can give to help cover the costs of our volunteers and staff at the UN would be greatly appreciated. This extra negotiating session has put an additional strain on our budget, which is already stretched very thin.  Click here to make a donation to support this effort.

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Sharon Slater
President

News Items of Interest

Abortion

FDA Approves New Emergency Contraceptive.  The controversial pill, marketed under the brand name “ella” can prevent a pregnancy for up to five days after sex.  The pill has been found to reduce the chances of pregnancy by about two-thirds.  The other emergency contraceptive known as “Plan B” is less effective, lasting only 72 hours.  Read more here.

Study Finds Rise in UK Teen Abortion Linked to Drinking.  Binge drinking “ladettes” are having casual, unprotected sex in record numbers.  As a result, these teenage girls are 40 percent more likely to have an abortion.  Doctors are handing out emergency contraception to more teenage girls than ever before.  Read more here.

Adoption

British Catholic Adoption Agency Appeal Denied.  The appeal to the country’s Charity Commission by Catholic Care to be allowed to continue to refuse to place children with homosexual individuals was denied.  Read more here.

UN Bureaucracy Campaigns for Homosexual Adoption in Mexico.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reports that the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights conducted an ad campaign that supported efforts to overturn Mexico City’s policy banning homosexual adoption.  Subway tickets were printed with the message “Embrace diversity; End discrimination” to remind citizens that they “are entitled to the full range of human rights.”  Read more here.

Homosexuality Related

U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway: “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” should stay.  Conway’s unofficial survey of fellow Marines regarding the repeal of the policy that currently prohibits homosexuals from openly serving in the U.S. military found that the average Marine has “pretty uniformly not endorsed [repeal of the ban] as the ideal way ahead.”  However, Conway stated that if the policy is repealed, the Marines will obey the law.  Read more here.

New Poll Shows U.S. Plurality Opposes Changing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  The poll, conducted by The Polling Company, found that 48 percent of Americans opposed repealing the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy that implements the law prohibiting homosexuals from openly serving in the military compared to 45 percent who support repeal.  More significantly, the poll found that among military respondents who are likely voters, 57 percent opposed repeal of the ban versus only 34 percent who supported it.  Read more here.

Lesbian Presbyterian Minister Faces Church Trial.  The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr, who serves in San Francisco and married more than a dozen same-sex couples during the period when homosexual marriage was legal in California, will be tried before a church count for violating the denomination’s constitution.  Read more here.

Marriage Related

Same-sex Marriage an Issue in Australian Election.  Both current Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opponent Tony Abbott believe that marriage should be between and man and a woman, but voters are increasingly asking the candidates to explain their position on the matter.  Civil unions are available in parts of Australia.  Read more here.

California Legislature Calls for Repeal of Federal DOMA.  By a vote of 22-12 the California Senate has joined with the House in calling on the federal government to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, claiming that it unfairly discriminates against homosexual married couples.  Read more here.

Another Poll Finds Majority of Americans Oppose Homosexual Marriage.  The Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll found that 57 percent of respondents, all registered voters, opposed homosexual marriage compared to only 37 percent who supported it.  The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3%.  Read more here.

News Items of General Interest

U.S. Senators Against UN Treaty.  Thirty-one Republican senators have signed on to a resolution in opposition to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty which has not been ratified by the United States.  The treaty grants children numerous rights including a right to seek government review of parental decisions.  The resolution states the treaty should not even be presented to the Senate for a vote because it “is contrary to the principles of self-government and federalism, and ... because the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child undermines traditional principles of law in the United States regarding parents and children.”  Read more here.

 

Have We Gone MAD?

Bizarre, real-life examples that make us wonder. . . Have We Gone MAD?

Pimp Pimp Cheerio!

Did you know sex is a human right?

Well, keep reading, but be forewarned: this one will surely get your knickers in a knot. 

Especially if you are a British taxpayer.

You see, your hard-earned shillings, some of which are funneled to the “Putting People First: Transforming Adult social Care” program, are being used to send a mentally disabled young man on a sex holiday to Amsterdam.  Your hard-earned shillings also fund lap dancing clubs, sex courses, and subscriptions to Internet dating services for the disabled.  (Thank you, Taxpayer!)

But I digress.  Back to Amsterdam.

The 21-year-old young man, soon to be winging his way to the brothels of Amsterdam, (Thank you, thank you, Taxpayer!) has been described by his social worker as an “angry and frustrated” virgin who has attended two “sexual health and sexual awareness courses” and is itching to “try it.”

‘Twas said social worker who stated that “refusing to offer him this service would be a violation of his human rights.”  Mr. Social Worker also provided this helpful, informational gem:  “Wouldn’t you prefer that we can control this, guide him, educate him, support him to understand the process and ultimately end up satisfying his needs in a secure, licensed place where his happiness and growth as a person is the most important thing?”  (Thank you, thank you, thank you, Taxpayer!)

It appears that for Brits, the “Putting People First: Transforming Adult social Care” program has some Big Ben-efits indeed.

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