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Circumcisions: Jewish, Muslim groups oppose ban
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/22/11 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnist

Posted on 06/22/2011 9:05:27 AM PDT by SmithL

Nothing like a proposed ban on circumcision to bring Jews and Muslims together.

Local chapters of the Jewish Community Relations Council and Anti-Defamation League are teaming up with a couple of practicing Jewish and Muslim families to file a lawsuit demanding that San Francisco's elections director remove the highly publicized circumcision ban from the November ballot.

The lawsuit, which is expected to be filed today in San Francisco Superior Court, argues that circumcision is a common medical procedure regulated by state law - and that it has no business being decided by city voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; circumcision; sanfranciscovalues; yourtaxdollarsatwork
Antisemitism is a San Francisco value.
1 posted on 06/22/2011 9:05:31 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I’m sure that the ban will be lifted for Muslims only, with the additional allowance of female circumcision.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 9:08:55 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: SmithL
Circumcision reduces the occurrence of aids so we can only guess why Kalifornia wants more cases of aids.
3 posted on 06/22/2011 9:13:34 AM PDT by mountainlion (The time to be on guard against tyranny is before it has gotten you Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SmithL

“The joos? What Joos? What is that? You all fly my raibow flag, ho’s” (/sarc off)

San Francisco basks in a “science” of perversion and neglect. It has no inkling of what sacrifice is needed in order to promote love of the other, and it certainly cannot comprehend the metaphores and symbolism in circumcision.


4 posted on 06/22/2011 9:23:45 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: SmithL

Hey, lets look on the bright side. We finally have an issue Jews and Muslims can work on together!

Yea team.


5 posted on 06/22/2011 9:30:10 AM PDT by edcoil (What? Me worry.)
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To: JudgemAll

An elderly Scottish Jew has decided to take it a little easier and take up golf. So he puts his name down at the local club. After a week he receives a message that his application has been turned down. So he goes down to the clto enquire why.

Secretary: You are aware that this is a Scottish golf club?

Scot: Aye but I am as Scottish as you are Jock.

Secretary: This means that on formal occasions we wear kilts.

Scot: Aye, so do I.

Secretary: You are aware that we wear nothing under our kilts?

Scot: Aye, neither do I.

Secretary: But you are a Jew?

Scot: Aye, I that.

Secretary: So you are circumcised?

Scot: Aye, that I am!

Secretary: I am terribly sorry, but the members just would not feel comfortable with that.

Scot: Ah, away with ya man. I know that you have to be a Protestant to march with the Orangemen. And I know that you have to be a Catholic to join the Knights of Saint Columbus. But this is the first time I ever heard that you have to be a complete prick to join a golf club.*


6 posted on 06/22/2011 9:41:41 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: JudgemAll
Joos?

You misspelled it. Here is the correction.


7 posted on 06/22/2011 9:46:57 AM PDT by N. Theknow (What part of Election Day November 2010 didn't the GOP understand?)
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To: SmithL

I’m glad people are challenging this un-G-dly proposed ban, but I have a question: if people are (legitimately) concerned about the erosion of “religious freedom” inherent in such a law, why is it that the criminalization of rejection of homosexuality is advancing at a mile a minute and only conservatives seem concerned? Why do liberals who understand objections to circumcision bans not understand objections to all the pressure being put on everyone to “update” sexual morality?


8 posted on 06/22/2011 10:24:32 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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To: B4Ranch

ROTFLMAO !!!


9 posted on 06/22/2011 10:39:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

“female circumcision.”

Female circumcision is a misnomer. There is no excess skin to circumsize. They just cut off a large chunk of her vulva, generally including the clitoris. Nothing but mutilation, of course it destroys sexual function and can interfere with urination and hygiene as well.

As opposed to male circumcision, whether we want it or not, which does not destroy sexual function (some say it enhances it, I don’t know) and increases hygiene. Also far less painful, it is just the removal of some skin.


10 posted on 06/22/2011 10:42:30 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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Circumcisions: Jewish, Muslim groups oppose ban

Now talk about strange bedfellows...

11 posted on 06/22/2011 10:51:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Why do liberals who understand objections to circumcision bans not understand objections to all the pressure being put on everyone to “update” sexual morality?

I have some speculation on that.

First, they know that they've got their people in place within most divinity schools with whom to morph a sufficient number of followers by which to gain majority support, a leftist practice since the days of Abraham Geiger.

Second, by ignoring the very existence of residual religious objection, those arguments do not make it into the public discourse.

Third, with the power of state licensing of the psychiatric and psychological professions, they know that those professional organizations will see a bonanza in sexual, marital, and as a result, child dysfunction lasting a lifetime. The transfer of morality to being a matter of "mental health" was always a prime goal of communist infiltrators since the arrival of the Frankfurt School here in the US in the 1930s. With them came the Cultural Marxism, of which this discussion is but a symptom.

12 posted on 06/22/2011 11:00:47 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: SmithL
No Law or Rule or Ban is ever going to stop anyone who wants to have their child circumcised from doing so.

This is all just for publicity. It is just a childish stunt.

Are there going to be ‘circumcision police’, like there was in Nazi Germany?

13 posted on 06/22/2011 11:13:09 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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“Antisemitism is a San Francisco value.”

So is smegma, apparently. But then that would explain Nancy Pelosi’s security in office.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 11:50:54 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are not governed. We are occupied.)
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To: 240B

This reminds me of the calls to ban urinals in Sweden and to force men to sit like women, as if years of experience hunting and running around in the woods or what not had to be discarded.

It’s all domination arbitrary authority talk of insane people, “any excuse” harassers and criminals.


15 posted on 06/22/2011 12:04:54 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: B4Ranch

Irony of the truly pricked shmucks.


16 posted on 06/22/2011 12:09:00 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: N. Theknow

Hmmm... maybe they meant the “juicy boyz” of San Francisco... haha


17 posted on 06/22/2011 2:16:04 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: SmithL

Would these same people who want to ban circumcision also want to ban abortion? (NO)


18 posted on 06/22/2011 5:40:32 PM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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