Posted on 10/02/2013 12:17:31 PM PDT by Former Fetus
A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a "violation of the physical integrity of children" was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The council, a pan-European intergovernmental organization, debated and passed the resolution on Tuesday based on a report by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development led by German rapporteur Marlene Rupperecht. The resolution passed by a vote of 78 in favor and 13 against, with 15 abstentions.
The resolution calls on states to "clearly define the medical, sanitary and other conditions to be ensured for practices such as the non-medically justified circumcision of young boys."
It also calls on member states to "initiate a public debate, including intercultural and interreligious dialogue, aimed at reaching a large consensus on the rights of children to protection against violations of their physical integrity according to human rights standards" and to "adopt specific legal provisions to ensure that certain operations and practices will not be carried out before a child is old enough to be consulted."
Practices covered by the resolution include female genital mutilation, the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, early childhood medical interventions in the case of intersexual children, corporal punishment, and the submission to or coercion of children into piercings, tattoos or plastic surgery.
Large majorities rejected five amendments that sought to remove or alter references to the circumcision of boys. An amendment that removed a reference to the "religious rights of parents and families" was supported by a large majority of members.
"Although the adoption of this report is non-binding and does not represent any direct threat to milah, we are troubled at the readiness of the Parliamentary Assembly to dismiss the points made during the debate about religious freedom," the Milah UK organization told JTA.
The ritual circumcision of boys younger than 18 has come under attack increasingly in Scandinavia and German-speaking European countries both by left-wing secularists and right-wingers who fear the influence of immigration from Muslim countries.
Are addadictomies still legal?
A lot of this is driven by homosexuals and not just anti-semites. Apparently, it’s trendy about the homosexuals to be sodomized with an uncircumcized penis.
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This kind of over-reaching into religious affairs is a large part of why I lean toward a very, very weak government. Yes, that can’t do certain good things, but they don’t them anyway; all they do is bad.
While that is true so far as it goes, the fact remains that the berit milah is a Divinely-ordained ritual which Jews are statutorily bound to perform, not a quaint eccentricity which can only be defended by an appeal to a neutral, secular libertarianism.
At some point the entire world will acknowledge HaShem and keep His commandments. While no government in existence today has the authority to enforce Halakhah, why not philosophically prepare for it by beginning to talk about the objectivity of HaShem's Truth rather than by appealing to Jeffersonianism?
Reminds me of my roommate in college.
Globalist new world order types run Europe.
They only want religions - or any groups - they can corrupt, those that will join in the globalist agenda.
To set the power of the law against “resistors”, NWO pushes for laws that outlaw key elements of the religion wherever possible.
NWO also employs the tactics of separatism and ridicule in schools, news and entertainment media (propaganda), etc., with the eventual goal of having the political support to outlaw in this way.
Corrupted religous groups, on the other hand, are very acceptable to NWO, especially once NWO can form their own “group within a group” at the leadership level, effectively making the group an arm of NWO without its members realizing.
“While no government in existence today has the authority to enforce Halakhah, why not philosophically prepare for it by beginning to talk about the objectivity of HaShem’s Truth rather than by appealing to Jeffersonianism?”
These are seperate issues.
Today we live with non-Divine governments. I view them as a necessary evil, to be minimized because, if other than the very most basic, they interfere with mitzvah.
The new Nazis and anti-semites will soon correct that (Jews still living in Europe).
Hey Adolf. You won!
Anyone know if there’s a surgery available to restore the foreskin?
What a bunch of schmucks.
If any, that is a blatant anti-Semitic legislation!!!
Oh, but wait!
Is there, also, a legislation forbidding all those Sharia Law yehus, from doing the same thing to their daughters???
Yeah, ‘cause God and all them Jews are morons.
Way to go, Europe! 3,000 years of vile anti-Semitism and still going strong!
I feel sorry for those backsliding Jews who try to cover up their circumcision. But I feel even sorrier for you! Please, tell me that you were being sarcastic and I missed it... otherwise I will pray for you.
Yes I was being sarcastic.
Yes I was being sarcastic.
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