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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on April 27, 2011, 05:41:49 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A group opposed to male circumcision said on Tuesday they have collected more than enough signatures to qualify a proposal to ban the practice in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.
But legal experts said that even if it were approved by a majority of the city's voters, such a measure would almost certainly face a legal challenge as an unconstitutional infringement on freedom of religion.
Circumcision is a ritual obligation for infant Jewish boys, and is also a common rite among Muslims, who account for the largest share of circumcised men worldwide.
The leading proponent of a ban, Lloyd Schofield, 59, acknowledged circumcision is widely socially accepted but he said it should still be outlawed.
"It's excruciatingly painful and permanently damaging surgery that's forced on men when they're at their weakest and most vulnerable," he told Reuters. ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110427/us_nm/us_circumcision_ban
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Circumcision also helps prevent some diseases. That's the reason it was started to begin with.
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"It's excruciatingly painful and permanently damaging surgery that's forced on men when they're at their weakest and most vulnerable," he told Reuters. ...
I don't remember any pain from it being done.
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I'm sure female circumcision is still a GO.
Cultural tolerance and all.
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What? Teh gheys luv teh foerskin?
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I don't remember any pain from it being done.
Nor do I.....
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Circumcision also helps prevent some diseases. That's the reason it was started to begin with.
Nothing that "Bathing" doesn't also prevent. The problem with this rational is that it was basically formulated by circumcised Christian and Jewish doctors to rationalize the fact they'd been doing them routinely for several decades, to put a scientific veneer on a practice that was basically just a cultural/religious practice.
Advantages and disadvantages are a wash. The pain part has to be pretty trivial compared to having just been squeezed headfirst out of a hole that normally would just accommodate something be the size of their own little baby leg.
I do agree that this is stupid and they'll have a Hell of a time making it stick, but in the 9th Circus, who knows.
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These idiots call themselves "intactivists". :whatever:
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I don't remember any pain from it being done.
I do. I was 23. Was told to refrain from any activity for 6 weeks. My wife looked awful good after 4 weeks. I ripped a stitch.
OUCH!!!!
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I do. I was 23. Was told to refrain from any activity for 6 weeks. My wife looked awful good after 4 weeks. I ripped a stitch.
OUCH!!!!
Holy shit! I felt that all the way over here!!!!!! :hyper:
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Holy shit! I felt that all the way over here!!!!!! :hyper:
Make you put your knees together, did it? :lol:
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I had a anti-circ nazi call me a liar when I told her my son slept through his. They are wayyyyyyyyyyy too concerned about other guy's dingdongs out there.