San Francisco judge removes circumcision ban from ballot

[eveofrevolution]

(CNN) -- San Francisco residents will not be voting on whether male circumcisions should be banned in the city this fall

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Oh, a circumcision post?

[anolinde]

[eveofrevolution]

Re: Oh, a circumcision post?

[redstar826]

lol now that lj is working properly again, we all need to get our wank fix.

[unfadingscar]

Yea, I need a job I don't give a shit if some baby doesn't have foreskin.

[brewsternorth]

Eh, quite. I for one am glad that they've taken a proposition that was effectively trollbait out of the ballot. There are More Serious Things right now.

[themaus]

Whhyyyyyyy do people care what other people do with their genitals when it CLEARLY does not involve them?!!!

[red_pill]

well, i dont know. dont babys get circmsied? what people choose to do to them self, sure, but kids?

in anycase, eh.

[mirhanda]

Yeah this. No one cares if some grown ass man wants to hack his penis completely OFF even, but when you talk about doing permanent, irreversible damage to little babies, a lot of people kind of care.

[thecityofdis]

Here to say: Thank fuck.

Also, in before everything.

[lickety_split]

I love you in circumcision posts.

[thecityofdis]

Yea? Well, I love you in everything.

[lickety_split]

Given my mood today, that means a lot. Thank you, fellow Spartan. :D

[entropius]

I don't get the religious wank involving this.

Either infant circumcision amounts to assault (removing a part of someone's body without their permission), or it doesn't.

If it's the latter, then it should be permitted; if it's the former, it should be banned. "Religious freedom" and "family privacy" don't enter into it; assault is assault whether or not a particular mythology holds it in high esteem. What if a cult decided that all babies should be branded at birth? Most people, I think, would oppose this, but it's actually a milder body modification than circumcision (since some people say that the foreskin is functional).

Whether or not there is a group of people whose superstitions and/or traditions mandate circumcision shouldn't matter. Either it's assault, or it's not, and its legal status should be determined by the answer to that question alone. (I'll take a pass on whether it's assault or not; I don't know.)

[thecityofdis]

but it's actually a milder body modification than circumcision

Then you have no idea how circumcision works, dudebro.

[aviv_b]

Here we go again. Understanding another's religion - you're doing it wrong.

[fauxdistressed]

TY for likening Judaism to a cult. That's not offensive in the slightest.