Monday, May 10, 2010
Female circumcision
I agree that female circumcision is an
abomination, but I feel that way about many of the so-called
“sacraments” of
many religions. Much as I hate it,
I must agree that our Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees the
right to the
practices of all religions, not just whichever brand of the Jesus
idolatry you
are buying into. To permit Jews and Christians to circumcise their
males, but
insist other religions may not perform their own versions of such savage
“rites”
is, I believe, clearly unconstitutional. (Though
neither Christian nor Jewish, my
son and I are both “chop-cocks.”) As with the anti-abortionists who
claim the
right to “protect” the unborn of others, there is nothing in that
Constitution
which makes those children the property of anyone but their parents,
such that
they should be protected by denying those parents the right to do as
their
version of God declares they should.
However you may feel about the spiritual righteousness of
anything, the
Constitution does not give you the right to make your “faith” a badge to
impose
your feelings upon others at the point of a law-enforcement officer’s
gun.
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