Posted on 04/28/2011 2:57:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Somewhere in the vast wastelands of the internet there must be a blog which does nothing but monitor the denizens of San Francisco, 24 x 7, to keep track of all the mind boggling things that go on there. If such a portal already exists, I’m sure they’ll be all over this story in no time at all.
San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
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.
Lloyd clearly has a lot of free time on his hands, a point driven home in the article when he “would not discuss his current occupation but previously worked for hotels in the San Francisco Bay area.” Clearly the type of medical / religious expert we need to call in to snip this in the bud wrestle this important issue to the ground.
Restrictions of Obamacare aside, this type of proposal goes straight to the heart of nanny state concerns. Obviously the practice is important to many families, particularly – as the article notes – those of both Jewish and Muslim faith. This isn’t a decision for the government to be making at any level, and the fact that San Francisco would even consider the idea is outrageous.
Of course, it may not even make it into the law books. So why bother covering a story like this? I suppose the only good reason is to highlight Ed Driscoll’s quick take headline, which surely deserves a standing ovation:
You may now insert painful groans in the comment section at your leisure.
Observant Jews will just find a rabbi outside of San Francisco’s jurisdiction to do it. The ones who will lose are the non-Jews who normally have their sons circumcised in a local hospital shortly after birth.
Ultimately as medical practice in San Francisco is honed to more closely match the leftwingtard urban green scape of fevered imaginations, no one will want to go there for any sort of medical service, or even for a nifty 15 minute tattoo of the Golden Gate bridge.
Outlawing circumcision is no skin of my nose.
Ah yes, the quest to create the perfect penis. It begins in San Francisco. Where else?
I guess the San Fran liberal control freaks aren’t worried about ‘back alley’ circumcisions being performed with rusty coat hangers? Oh the humanity....lol
Cue giant eye roll....What will they come up with next?
These guys have too much time on their hands.
You can argue it back and forth, but on the whole circumcision is good for your health.
Also, it may appeal to leftists to display their antisemitism in various ways, but I find it hard to believe that they will want to take on the Muslims like this.
Maybe they can pass a law that there will be no circumcisions except for Muslims. That might appeal to the leftist mind.
That's because they don't know which head to cut........Better be safe and not do it at all.
Once the progressive tolerance freaks get islam and shari’a law in place here, there won’t BE any Jews, observant or otherwise.
We’ll all be muzzies or dead.
What a bunch of schmucks.
That'd be for males and females ~ might hep' 'em solve some of their other problems as well.
Anti-circumcision advocacy is and has always been a San Francisco, European and Roman kind of activity. Homo-nazis.
I see a TV series:
Moishe Cohen - Underground Mohel.
It is no mystery what occupies the minds of San Franciscans.
Isn’t circumcision basically unnecessary surgery?
the capital of AIDS wants a ban on circumcision? say it ain’t so
Abortion is legal, but you have to go to "back-alley clinics" to get a circumcision?
-PJ
Next week the SF Board of Supervisors is introducing a property tax hike in order to fund foreskin reconstructive surgery for the homeless.
S.F. to be ant-eater city.
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