WASHINGTON, May 15 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Thursday, in honour of Mother’s Day Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms introduced a resolution opposing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) whose governing body has opposed Mother’s Day.
Helms said, “earlier this year, one such committee solemnly warned the nation Belarus that there was great ‘concern [over] the continuing prevalence of such [stereotypical] symbols as a Mother’s Day.’ The nation Armenia was lectured about the need to ‘combat the traditional stereotype of women in the noble role of mother.