San Franciscans to vote on controversial male circumcision ban in November

Washington Post ^ | May 19, 2011 | AP

[Beaten Valve]

San Francisco voters in November 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.

Supporters of the ban say male circumcision is a form of genital mutilation that should not be forced on a young child.

But opponents say such claims are alarmingly misleading, and call the proposal a clear violation of constitutionally protected religious freedoms.

[Moose Burger]

Dunno. Maybe, but I had not thought it that directly. Or maybe a city already so broken that it can praise a number of perversions, and goes out of its way to ban a practice so strongly related to a religion so opposite to said perversion, is already close to trouble. Maybe neither, and it’s just a coincidence.

[Mashood]

“...and goes out of its way to ban a practice so strongly related to a religion so opposite to said perversion, is already close to trouble.”

I don’t know why the issue of circumcision is so controversial there, but to suggest that failure to be circumcized will lead to medical maladies is preposterous...