Posted on 07/28/2011 2:12:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi on Wednesday issued a tentative ruling saying the proposed ballot measure to ban circumcision in the city must be withdrawn, calling it "expressly preempted" by state law.
Lloyd Schofield, 59 year old anti-circumcision activist, was determined to have male circumcision banned by legislation in San Francisco. For starters, he gathered 12,000 signatures, while ony 7,168 are required for the city of 750,000 by the city’s Department of Elections, for his proposal to be placed on the ballet in the November 8th San Francisco elections .
The measure, which would only apply in San Francisco, was intended make it a crime to circumcise a minor, regardless of the parents' religious beliefs. The maximum penalty would be a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The ban’s campaign material included anti-Semitic comic books depicting a Jewish mohel, or circumcision practitioner, as the sinister villain "Foreskin Man", in the inimitable style of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion and the Nazi Der Sturmer.
According to the Associated Press the plaintiffs of record in the lawsuit filed against the measure included five Jews, three Muslims, two doctors who regularly perform the procedure, the local chapter of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the national Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Volunteers have been working at debunking the misconceptions about circumcision, citing medical and freedom of religion issues.
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A sensible Superior Court justice in SF? Guess I better schedule that ski trip in Hell...
Yes, it does seem like a lot for a wallet but
when you stroke it, it turns into a suitcase....
Ya. The judge was tipped off.
Just wait ‘til the protests and street theater starts. What alliterations will they use for the penis players? Sammy Snipped and Charlie Uncut will sword fight over the judge’s decision? Ewww....
How and why the hell does one become an “anti-circumcision” advocate in the first place? Are there not more pressing problems in the world that need real solutions?
Really? Like Swan Lake?
Are there not more pressing problems in the world that need real solutions?
Right, GET A GRIP!
It's the same San Francisco Loony Left that keeps electing Nancy Pelosi!!
NBC News 2/13/90
ASPEN RESIDENTS TO VOTE ON FUR BAN
Today fur.
Tomorrow leather.
Then wool.
Then meat...
You can depend on the crazies (Democrats/liberals) to do almost anything. As long as it is ridiculous, takes away peoples' freedoms, and probably unconstitutional.
(Clutches heart) This is the big one, Elizabeth. I’m coming to join you.
A woman judge made a correct decision? Inconceivable.
Must be her residual Italionosity bleeding through.
More like the Barber of Saville...
Maybe the answer was really...
A. Sir Frances Drake, the first person to circumsize
the world using a 40 ft. clipper.
Like saving the zoot zoot fly of lower Tasmania from extinction!
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