ACLU Opposes Maine Bill Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation

Daily Caller ^ | 26 May 17 | Anders Hagstrom

[LSUfan]

Maine has one of the largest Somali immigrant populations in America. The idea that FGM isn't happening there is a huge lie.

The bill fell short by a vote of 76-71.

[Jim W N]

The ACLU doesn’t have A CLUE.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Only sadists would support FGM.

[Grimmy]

ACLU Supports The Mutilation of Females.

That is what an honest headline would say.

[NorthMountain]

ACLU Supports Mutilating Little Girls

[Neoliberalnot]

And yet, queers in the military or in prison can force the tax payer to pay for theirs along with a lifetime supply of steroids to fit their new “gender.” And, some of these twisted freaks are judges, sitting on a high bench to judge others.

[ifinnegan]

Figures.

And how could this not pass?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I know it’s a delicate subject to talk about, but we should do so, so that people are aware.

This is not a procedure which corresponds to a circumcision.

This is amputation of the clitoris and labia.

It is rightly called mutilation. Some news organizations won’t call it mutilation. They use other words, some just describing as a nondescript procedure.

[farming pharmer]

They've been trying to cut the balls off of men for the past 80 years, so I don't find this surprising. WTF is wrong with these people?

[TXBlair]

Zzzing!

[Grimmy]

I do know what it is, but thank you for spelling it out. Many who read here may not know what it’s really about.

My personal opinion is that both practitioners and defenders of the practice should be dragged out into the town square and broken on the wheel.

[mfish13]

These people are not right.

[oldplayer]

But these same defenders of female genital mutilation, succeeded in criminalizing therapy that would successfully treat homosexuals who wanted to be straight instead.

What a world these people live in! I wish they weren’t trying to make me live in it, too.

[LucyT]

I know it’s a delicate subject to talk about, but we should do so, so that people are aware.

This is not a procedure which corresponds to a circumcision.

This is amputation of the clitoris and labia.

It is rightly called mutilation. Some news organizations won’t call it mutilation.

[sport]

Oh, you can bet the farm that they do. But the ALCU opposes everything that is good and decent on general principles.

[virgil]

However, the Maine ACLU staunchly opposes the protection. ACLU spokesman Oamshri Amarasingham said that the risk of mutilation isn’t worth expanding Maine’s criminal code. The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault also supported the ACLU, arguing that FGM is not happening in Maine

Sounds like a weak argument to me.

[Oscar in Batangas]

My reading skills have really gone to hell..

I looked all over this story and didn’t see a single “/S” symbol

[jeffc]

Is this stance of the ACLU consistent with how they feel about male circumcision? If not, well.....

[antidemoncrat]

ACLU = American Criminal Lunatic Union

[aces]

gather up the aclu lawyers and one by one gender mutilate them, bet that would change they pea brains