It’s only at the signature stage for the November ballot, but a measure to ban circumcising anyone under the age of 18 is being circulated in San Francisco. What I don’t understand about this effort is whether the supporters have actually read the Constitution, which clearly permits the free exercise of Judaism, which sort of has a long-standing tradition of this particular procedure (as does Christianity). So, as weird as this is, it’s a dead lock to get struck down on 1st Amendment grounds. But what message are they trying to send? “No Jews needed in San Francisco?” “It’s unacceptable to perform an ancient surgery on a days-old infant but perfectly fine to kill him in any way you like a week prior to that?” The reasoning here baffles me, but it’s good to know that the NBC site lists locals as 69% furious about it.
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