Posted on 06/03/2011 10:43:39 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco's anti-circumcision measure will be decided by voters in November, but the literature for the movement aims to sway them with some disturbing images -- including dark, evil-looking rabbis and a blonde superhero saving babies from their clutches.
The measure, supported by self-described "intactivists," would make circumcision performed on anyone under 18 a misdemeanor, even if it is done for religious purposes.
It would be punishable by a $1000 fine, or up to a year in jail.
But that's not the half of it: check out the eye-opening "Foreskin Man,'' the comic book for this anti-circumcision movement that uses images critics are calling blatantly anti-Semitic.
It was reported this week by Chronicle comrade and op-ed columnist Debra J. Saunders.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Aryans saving children from evil Jews....?
why not just burn a cross...
Freaking disgusting. What a hell-hole SF must be.
They don’t even need new ideas. They can just use the old Nazi stuff.
Because gay men must love foreskin.
God will not be mocked. But how much more mocking will there be?
Some research indicates that circumcision limits the onset of HIV/AIDS. Draw your own conclusions.
You could not make this stuff up. Attention all SF jews: if you are caught circumcising your son tell the authorities it was a botched late term abortion and see if they let you off. Knowing San Francisco, they just might.
“Because gay men must love foreskin.”
Why would gay men love foreskin? Isn’t it just a little more flesh shoved into a rather sensitive body cavity? Not to be vulgar but inquiring minds want to know.
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“I wonder why circumcision has them so upset?”
This has nothing to do with Jews. This is San Fransisco; Homo central. This is all about obsession with the penis, plain and simple.
He certainly does.
SF queers prefer it with the skin on.
San Francisco's anti-circumcision measure will be decided by voters in November... would make circumcision performed on anyone under 18 a misdemeanor, even if it is done for religious purposes.The Emperor Hadrian was horrified by circumcision -- then as now, universal among male Jews -- and whaddayaknow, Hadrian was flaming too.
You either believe in the sovereignty of the individual or you don't. Many here clearly don't. They talk a good game about being "pro-life" but are happy to treat a male child and his genitals as parent's property.
Well hell California is gotten more and more radical as time went on............so there had to be a “logical” conclusion to all of this;that is it.
This is an advocacy campaign taken to a new low. This is a sensitive, serious issue where good people can disagree and which the Jewish community feels is an assault on its values and traditions going back thousands of years and centered in the Hebrew Bible. It is one thing to debate it, is another thing to degrade it. "Foreskin Man," with its grotesque anti-Semitic imagery and themes, reaches a new low and is disrespectful and deeply offensive.
The comic book portrays mohels -- those specially trained to perform the traditional Jewish circumcision ceremony -- as rapacious, bloodthirsty and bent on harming children. Some of the imagery calls to mind age-old anti-Semitic canards such as the blood libel, the accusation that Jews ritually murder Christian children. Another comic in the series also calls up more subtle anti-Jewish themes, such as when a character complains that the "pro-circumcision lobby" has "all of the well-connected doctors and lawyers."
We would have hoped those backing the anti-circumcision effort in San Francisco would know better than to use this type anti-Semitic imagery to advance their cause. No matter what one's personal opinions of male circumcision, it is irresponsible to use stereotypical caricatures of religious Jews to promote the anti-circumcision agenda.
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