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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