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SF Circumcision Ban To Appear On November Ballot
KTVU ^ | 5/18/11 | staff

Posted on 05/18/2011 3:18:41 PM PDT by Nachum

SAN FRANCISCO -- In November, San Francisco voters will be asked to weigh in on what was until now a private family matter: male circumcision.

City elections officials confirmed Wednesday that an initiative that would ban the circumcision of males younger than 18 in San Francisco has received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. The practice would become a misdemeanor.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antisemites; antisemitism; appear; ban; circumcision; genitalmutilation; sanfrancisco; sf
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1 posted on 05/18/2011 3:18:44 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

This mountain could turn into a mohel.


2 posted on 05/18/2011 3:21:54 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Nachum

So religiously observant Jewish families will have it done outside of San Francisco, as well as those who believe it better for health reasons.


3 posted on 05/18/2011 3:22:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Nachum
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .

The word Bris means covenant; the word Milah, to cut. Ritual circumcision is the covenant G-d has established with the Jewish people through the commandment of circumcision.

The big government libs in SF have no authority to regulate this personal choice. What happened to the "right to privacy" that they created, or is it like all other lib creations and only applies selectively when the arbiters of political correctness decide to play that card?

4 posted on 05/18/2011 3:23:17 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Nachum

All your foreskins are belong to us.


5 posted on 05/18/2011 3:30:52 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: Nachum

Yep. There is an issue that needs to be addressed by local government.

Sorry, cant do much about the homeless craping in the street...


6 posted on 05/18/2011 3:31:11 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Pollster1

Most of the “Congress shall not” amendments are now incorporated by court dictums as though they were also “and neither shall states or lower governments.”


7 posted on 05/18/2011 3:33:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Nachum
...what was until now a private family matter: male circumcision.

Not necessarily. I have known two doctors that are adamantly against it and will counsel young parents accordingly and even more doctors that are for it and will counsel young parents accordingly, even more aggressively, which very effectively removes it from the "private family matter" arena.

Personally, I think it should be an individual decision, and since the poor kid is too young to make the decision, then, well, they'll just have to wait until he's old enough before they go removing a very sensitive portion of his anatomy.

I'm not cut. Don't want to be cut. See no reason to be cut and have never had a hygiene problem, which is the first thing most advocates throw out there. My mama and daddy taught me how to use a wash cloth and soap and none of my wives have died from cervical cancer because I wasn't circumcised, nor any of my mistresses. (All "0" of them.)

But...to each his own.

(Yes, there is a certain amount of sarcasm there, but I see no good reason to perform a circumcision on a child that has no idea as to why it was done and for which there is no good reason given.)

8 posted on 05/18/2011 3:33:25 PM PDT by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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To: Nachum

Practioners who perfom circumcisions claim that the pay is lousy, but the tips are great.


9 posted on 05/18/2011 3:34:32 PM PDT by Former War Criminal (My senior Senator [who served in Vietnam and Rhode Island] said so.)
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To: Nachum
It's OK to dismember your babies down at the Planned Murderhood mill up until he actually makes it to birth, but then right after that it's a crime to do minr surgery that has known health benefits.

Everything in San Francisco makes so much sense.

10 posted on 05/18/2011 3:34:32 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: Pollster1

So, killing an unborn baby is OK.
Circumcising him a week or two later after he is born is a crime?


11 posted on 05/18/2011 3:35:25 PM PDT by rogator
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To: Nachum

Next they will want to conduct inspections to make sure that boys are in compliance. There will a new public employee union, Pecker Checkers International Union. There will be plenty of job applicants.


12 posted on 05/18/2011 3:35:39 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Nachum

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/07/37479

Does Circumcision Prevent AIDS?

Dumdeeedumdumdum....


13 posted on 05/18/2011 3:35:53 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Former War Criminal

What is the male homosexual view of circumcision? That could decide this election?

I’m only half joking here. The gay vote is a big bloc in SF, and, male homosexuals take a major interest in anything related to the male body. A big voter turnout combined with a “gay party line” on the issue could be decisive when the voters vote.


14 posted on 05/18/2011 3:37:18 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: forgotten man

Yep, the “gay male” applicants will be eager to have such a job.


15 posted on 05/18/2011 3:38:11 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Regulator

Beat me to the punch by less than a minute.


16 posted on 05/18/2011 3:38:22 PM PDT by rogator
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To: Nachum

Why attack circumcision?
Will the prepuce Nazi ban pierced ears or pierced tongues?
Could this ban having anything to do with the hatred that
the leftists, socialist, commies have towards God?
Why don’t they ban anal intercourse in San Francisco?
That practice is much more nasty and deadly than snipping
off loose skin.
God will deal with these people in due time and that
will be worth seeing! I’ve got ring side seats!


17 posted on 05/18/2011 3:40:37 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>>>So religiously observant Jewish families will have it done outside of San Francisco, as well as those who believe it better for health reasons.<<<

I’m expecting the lawsuit to start the instant the law passes. Temple Emanu-El on Arguello in SF, where Dianne Feinstein worships (and lives next to), is where many wealthy SF Jews have their kids circumcised and I seriously doubt they’ll end the practice just to please the mangy secularists.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.787259,-122.459992&spn=0.002194,0.003042&t=h&z=18


18 posted on 05/18/2011 3:41:57 PM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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To: rogator

Actually ramming a knife through the brain, if they are a late term unborn child, is far more acceptable to these freaks than circumcision.


19 posted on 05/18/2011 3:42:40 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Regulator

“Everything in San Francisco makes so much sense.”

To the leftists, you have a right to privacy and “choice” in every conceivable bodily-related act until a child is born. After that... the kid fully belongs to the government.


20 posted on 05/18/2011 3:44:16 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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