San Francisco needs to ban its people from having any more children. Seriously – this city hates everything. . .
They’ve banned Happy Meals, prohibited their citizens from sitting (or resting) on sidewalks during 
daylight hours, made it illegal to feed birds, fine residents who do not recycle their trash or compost their rotting food, and now they are voting on whether or not to strip parents of their religious and/or parental rights as it pertains to circumcising their sons.
In a state (and city) drowning in debt, tax dollars are actually funding a ballot measure that aims to punish any parent choosing to circumcise their son by enforcing either a fine or jail time. (For the record, the measure currently provides no religious exemptions.)
The most disturbing discovery, however, is that the anti-circumcision movement is gaining momentum beyond the ever-constricting walls of San Francisco and loaded with misinformation.
Are circumcisions medically necessary?
Circumcisions are indeed medically unnecessary. However, many have likened circumcision to a surgical vaccine – as the proven benefits far outweigh the risks.
**Interesting side note:Â Due to its “medically unnecessary” status, the United Kingdom has made circumcision an uninsured, out-of-pocket expense – making it virtually impossible for new parents to afford the option.**
What are the medical benefits of circumcision?
A circumcised penis is hands-down more hygienic and according to America’s Center for Disease Control (CDC):
“A lack of male circumcision has also been associated with sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease and chlamydia, infant urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and cervical cancer in female partners of uncircumcised men. The latter two conditions are related to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Transmission of this virus is also associated with lack of male circumcision. A recent meta-analysis included 26 studies that assessed the association between male circumcision and risk for genital ulcer disease. The analysis concluded that there was a significantly lower risk for syphilis and chancroid among circumcised men, whereas the reduced risk of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection had a borderline statistical significance.”
Is circumcision “Genital Mutilation” and barbaric?
Genital Mutilation refers to a practice whose sole purpose is to prevent sexual pleasure and/or procreation. It is often a punishment carried out crudely and without the use of anesthetics. Genital Mutilation has absolutely no health benefits whatsoever and is indeed barbaric.
Conversely, circumcision (when performed in developed countries, in a clinical environment, by trained professionals)Â has many obvious health benefits, is usually performed on infants with a local anesthetic and leaves the penis fully functioning.
Are there risks?
Circumcision is a surgical procedure and harbors its own set of risks, which is why the procedure has always remained a choice.
Should a man be able to choose for himself whether or not to be circumcised?
One of the biggest arguments made by the anti-circumcision movement is that a man should be able to choose for himself whether or not to be circumcised; thereby outlawing the procedure on infants.
Parents make medical decisions that affect the lives of their children every day. Whether it be participating in a vaccine program, or allergy shots, or ear tubes, or proper diet and nutrition, or vitamins, or brushing teeth – we have been making decisions for our young since the beginning of time. Most parents are fully capable of choosing wisely for their children.
Is banning circumcision in conflict with the First Amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - First Amendment of the United States Constitution
Jews, Muslims and Christians worldwide have been circumcising their sons for thousands of years. The act of circumcision is a covenant made with G-d that creates a physical identifier of ones belief system. Banning circumcision would be in direct violation to the practices of all three of the Abrahamic religions, which makes this measure wholly unconstitutional.
Summary
It seems that whenever a secular tradition is rooted in G-d or religion, people worldwide want to abolish it regardless of any compelling scientific data suggesting its benefit. The facts are that circumcision is proven to be a noble warrior in the fight against AIDS and STI’s and banning the practice would be a huge infringement upon our religious and parental rights.
It begins in San Francisco this November, but will end in your town if We the People don’t take a stand now.
Below is the contact information of San Francisco’s Mayor, Edwin M. Lee. Feel free to write him and make your voices and opinions heard!
Mayor Edwin M. Lee
City Hall, Room 200,
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: (415) 444-6141
Fax: (415) 554-6160
Email: mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org
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This is is good article Shannon, but you should feel free to say God, do not be afraid to piss people off. He is God and always will be God.
Hi Frank,
Spelling “G-d” is not her way of offending folks, but the respectful jewish way of spelling God. I have many jewish friends are have read lots of jewish literature and God is never spelled out. His name is too holy and is respected as such in the jewish faith.
God Bless,
Michelle
I use the spelling “G-d” as a sign of respect and admission that I am not capable of speaking on His behalf.
There is a much deeper, not so transparent issue, at the core of this dialogue. We are ever so slowly, slipping back, into the insidious distraction of the 1930s, then Nazism embraced by the Arabs and in America as a replacement for democracy, Joe Kennedy, it is now Islam as the counter culture and the only true religion. Christianity must be destroyed, it cannot be compromised.
“The act of circumcision is a covenant made with G-d making the absence of ones foreskin a physical identifier of ones belief system.” Destroy the Christian belief system and you destroy Christianity.
This is as much or more about radical progressivism, currentism, relativism and the destruction of Israel as it is about biological envy. One hopes that people reading this essay “think.
1543 – “On the Jews and Their Lies” Released in 1543 Martin Luther (1483-1546), a German Reformation leader, had a significant influence on German anti-Semitism by his harsh anti-Jewish statements and writings. He published “On the Jews and Their Lies” in which he says that the Jews are a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.” They are full of the “devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine.” The synagogue was a “defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut …” He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness, afforded no legal protection, and these “poisonous envenomed worms” should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time. He also seems to advocate their murder, writing “[w]e are at fault in not slaying them.”
The issue of circumcision is a sign of pending chaos. Great people, like Martin Luther, often went astray. Anti-Semitic, and anti-Western sentiment, and the destruction of the Jews and Westerners is the deep insidious message. This is George Soros and the Global Reformation at its most active form.
Visit the insidious attack on Judaism as under scored, the hidden agenda, in “A History of Hatred Against the Jews by Anonymous”.
Nice essay.
Studies show that circumcision is helpful in reducing the spread of AIDS. One would think that in San Francisco, home of the gays, that they would want to promote anything and everything possible to prevent the the spread of AIDS. But, then again, what would one except from a city that is so ridiculously counter-intuitive that it would be for banning cigarettes and legalizing marijuana (which smoking 1 joint is equal to smoking 6 cigarettes)?!
Whatever, I’ve been saying it for years now… the Democrats are the party of BAN.
And, oh yes, I think it is only Jews that don’t say God… they use G-D instead. At least that is what my Jewish friends say.
Thanks for the comment, Tim! Couple of things – there are actually more heterosexuals with AIDS worldwide than homosexuals. Also, I specifically used the spelling “G-d” out of respect and admission that I am not qualified to speak on His behalf.
Not to mention that it’s significantly more painful and expensive to get it done when you’re older. I know a couple guys who had to get it done as teenagers or in their 20s, and a few more who wish they were but can’t afford it or are afraid of the pain. But I’ve never heard of a guy being traumatized by or remembering being circumcised as a baby. Seems to me like it’s better to just get it over with. I can’t believe they would try to ban it.
It’s also more dangerous as an adult.
Alex, I’ll take Facist Government and penis control for $400 please.
There really is a very simple way to alleviate the totalitarian government and pseudo-ideological people in control of San Francisco. The US should succeed from San Francisco and make SF its own country. When the “good” folks living there have had enough of the righteous holy-than-thou government in control, and cry for help, the US will go in and bomb all government officials houses, offices, hang-outs and any place where two or more of them meet… just like we have done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other countries that deny their citizens of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The US will then set up a truly democratic government.