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ACLU Opposes Maine Bill Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
Daily Caller ^ | 26 May 17 | Anders Hagstrom

Posted on 06/19/2017 1:31:45 PM PDT by LSUfan

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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.

1 posted on 06/19/2017 1:31:46 PM PDT by LSUfan
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The ACLU doesn’t have A CLUE.


2 posted on 06/19/2017 1:33:39 PM PDT by Jim W N
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Only sadists would support FGM.


3 posted on 06/19/2017 1:33:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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ACLU Supports The Mutilation of Females.

That is what an honest headline would say.


4 posted on 06/19/2017 1:35:29 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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ACLU Supports Mutilating Little Girls


5 posted on 06/19/2017 1:36:34 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: LSUfan

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.


6 posted on 06/19/2017 1:37:24 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: LSUfan

Figures.

And how could this not pass?


7 posted on 06/19/2017 1:38:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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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.


8 posted on 06/19/2017 1:38:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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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?
9 posted on 06/19/2017 1:39:34 PM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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Zzzing!


10 posted on 06/19/2017 1:40:25 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


11 posted on 06/19/2017 1:42:35 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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These people are not right.


12 posted on 06/19/2017 2:04:15 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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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.


13 posted on 06/19/2017 2:09:48 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Dilbert San Diego; null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; ...

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.

14 posted on 06/19/2017 2:14:37 PM PDT by LucyT
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Oh, you can bet the farm that they do. But the ALCU opposes everything that is good and decent on general principles.


15 posted on 06/19/2017 2:17:49 PM PDT by sport
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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.

16 posted on 06/19/2017 2:23:06 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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My reading skills have really gone to hell..

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


17 posted on 06/19/2017 2:25:25 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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Is this stance of the ACLU consistent with how they feel about male circumcision? If not, well.....


18 posted on 06/19/2017 2:30:07 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Jim 0216

ACLU = American Criminal Lunatic Union


19 posted on 06/19/2017 2:39:20 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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gather up the aclu lawyers and one by one gender mutilate them, bet that would change they pea brains


20 posted on 06/19/2017 2:46:05 PM PDT by aces (Islam is satans lies, ask Jesus)
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