You can feel good about being right, but it doesn't make it so. You are most definitely not a conservative except in some narrow sense of being a arcane zealot.
It seems to me thaat your collection of beliefs are your own and, I believe, wildly inconsistent. For instance, Christ reaffirms the validity of the old testament numerous times as the very basis on which grace is predicated. That Jews reject Christ as the Messiah does not undo thousands of years of their traditions and the American freedom to practice them for your intellectual or theological pleasure. All Bible flogging theology aside, circumcision has nothing whatsoever to do with the sanctity of life anymore than, oh say, ear piercing or tattoos and, besides, I suspect you'll find the Catholic church is silent on circumcision.
All in all, your political language and your religious ideals are entwined and confused and the outgrowth of your fervent idealism tends (not a little) towards authoritarianism. Make a case for our national freedoms and liberty being threatened by circumcision and you might gain some respect. In any event, you should at least consider changing your screen name.
I can feel good about being right
and have it be so! How do ya like
them apples?
And besides, people are restricted by law from doing harm unto others... indeed, preventing people from doing harm to others is the primary rational basis for having laws.
If someone's religion told them it was O.K. to strap a bomb to their kid's chest and send them into a restauraunt as a suicide bomber, no references to religious freedom would preclude anyone on FreeRepublic from agreeing that the law should step in and prevent that, because of the harm it causes.
So, the real question is, is circumcision a harm? I would say yes, and that therefore it should be precluded by law: let's say at national level. If I am right, and I am, then seeking for circumcision to be banned is quite righteous even as seeking abortion to be banned is quite righteous, for both pursuits follow the same reasoning: that harm to innocents is wrong and must be stopped.
And yes, it is a sanctity of life issue: its the right for innocent human life to prosper without an archaic blood ritual being perpetuated on them.
And really, "arcane" describes the position of those who defend such a weird practice as circumcision on the basis of some guy claiming he heard voices telling him to cut a circle of blood in his son's genitalia.