It's a sticky area this, but the way I saw it expressed once kind of sums it up for me: If someone's gonna lop off a part of my dick, they'd better make sure they have my permission first.
I'm all for freedom of religious expression, but I think genital mutilation of children without their consent really is taking it a bit too far.
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Relatedly, and quite bizarre:
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Ultra-Orthodox rabbis in New York City say if a proposed law requiring parental consent for a circumcision ritual linked to two infant deaths is enacted they will defy it.
During the ritual, called metzitzah b’peh, a mohel removes the foreskin and uses his mouth to stop the bleeding. At least 11 New York infants are thought to have contracted herpes from the practice, two of whom died and two of whom have irreversible brain damage, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2...cision-ritual/
Right. So he wants to suck a baby's dick after cutting part of it off and cites religious reasons. You really couldn't make it up.