The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> Circumcision to be Outlawed in San Francisco...........YEAH!!!!
| Circumcision to be Outlawed in San Francisco...........YEAH!!!! |
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pancho
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- Thursday, May 19 2011, 3:09:24 (UTC) from *** - ***  Mexico -  Windows XP -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
It's about fucking time. SF to vote on male circumcision in November San Francisco voters will decide whether to ban male circumcision in the November 8 municipal election. Activists gathered enough signatures to put a proposal on the ballot, the city's election board confirmed Wednesday. The measure aims to prohibit all male circumcisions in San Francisco. Led by Lloyd Schofield who is part of a Bay Area “inactivist” group, the advocates want to eliminate the surgery and liken it to "male genital mutilation." Schofield and the "inactivists" seek to make it "unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis" of anyone 17 or younger in San Francisco. Under the proposal, a person who violates the proposed ban could be jailed (not more than one year) or fined (not more than $1,000). Exemptions for religious reasons would not be allowed. Column: Circumcising our son– how do we decide? The measure faces huge hurdles: Legal, religious opposition and varying public opinion. It has brought up some interesting discussions about why we circumcise and whether there are any sound medical benefits. Empowered Patient: Should teens make their own circumcision decision? “We hope to get a greater outreach to the people in the city,” Schofield said Wednesday during a celebratory lunch. He said the activists would step up efforts to talk about the issue with residents. “We are willing and happy to talk to people who want a respectful conversation. We’re excited to do it.” ...it's more than criminal, it's religious, that this barbaric Bronze Age tribal rite has survived this long...there isn't a single sane justification for it, not one. And even if it was true that circumcision could save some males from penile cancer, would that be a serious argument for cutting off the breasts of all girls at puberty to save them from cancer? ...the male foreskin is not an accident of Nature that needs correction...it is a marvelous evolutionary necessity to keep the penis clean and protected, also to keep it sensitive to pleasure, for mating purposes and to have something to do on Saturday nights. What will be truly fun and fascinating is what this does to Jews....there can be no religious excuse to violate civil laws...Mormons had to give up their multiple brides to join the Union, Jews will have to give up whacking their boys' foreskins off. Talk about starting out on the wrong foot. --------------------- |
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