Wanna see a spike in the number of dead kids? (Can't shut up II)

Put this in the Constitution & I guarantee it.

From the Politico's breathless piece about Pete Hoekstra's crazy plan to amend the constitution:

Hoekstra last week introduced a bill in the House to amend the U.S. Constitution to permanently "enshrine" in American society an inviolable set of parents' rights. The bill had 70 co-sponsors, all Republicans, including Minority Whip Eric Cantor and Minority Leader John A. Boehner.

The bill, said Hoekstra, is intended to stem the "slow erosion" of parents' rights and to circumvent the effects of a United Nations treaty he believes "clearly undermines parental rights in the United States."
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While a treaty that seeks to protect children may sound innocuous, its opponents, such as Michael Farris, the Christian conservative founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, see in it a dystopian future in which "Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children";

 
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