House hears Nonini’s resolution re: parental rights

Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, argues in the House on Monday for his resolution backing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution supporting parental rights .

The Idaho House is now debating a resolution pushed by Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, backing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution promoting parental rights, and opposing the United States ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty that already has been ratified by 194 nations - all nations except the United States and Somalia. “Such enumeration of these rights in the text of the Constitution will preserve them from being infringed upon by the shifting ideologies and interpretations of the United States Supreme Court,” the non-binding measure, HJM 1, declares.

Nonini said the proposed amendment “will not alter the current state of parental rights in this country. It will simply ensure that our current rights will remain free from erosion due to judicial activism” or international law. Nonini said he’s convinced there’s risk. “Longstanding constitutional rights are now hanging by a precarious thread,” he told the House. Read more. Betsy Russell, EOB

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Update: House passes parental rights memorial after much debate.