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Opinion: New circumcision bill won’t end debate
With a speed not often seen in this legislative period, the German cabinet has approved a new bill that would allow ritual circumcision on young boys, just three months after a Cologne regional court ruled against the practice.
Under the new bill, male circumcision would remain legal if parents give their consent and the operation is done following 'the rules of medical science.' An important part of the new bill stresses the fact that circumcision would only be carried out with parental consent, making the practice legally separate from an act that causes bodily harm. In addition, the bill would also put an end to the criminalization of Jews and Muslims.
A necessary and pragmatic settlement
But Wednesday's circumcision ruling is not just an answer to a specific legal question. Rather, it's about a conflict of values in a pluralistic society - a conflict between the secular norms of a democratic state and the laws and rituals of its various religious communities. The circumcision debate showed that such conflicts require sensitivity and pragmatism.
The circumcision conflict led to a controversial public debate in recent months, a debate that threatened to get out of hand. Some old and ugly stereotypes concerning Jews and Muslims were revived, and a widespread form of religious illiteracy was laid bare in German society.
Circumcision should not be made illegal
The debate over male circumcision also made waves because it suddenly raised the question as to whether the Jewish and Muslim lifestyle was possible in Germany, or even welcome. That's why the federal government needed to act quickly and give the practice legal legitimacy.
But despite the very reasonable and pragmatic ruling, the debate on the necessity and legitimacy of ritual circumcision will not come to an end. But the legally guaranteed right will at least ensure one thing, that religious circumcision is not pushed into illegality. To allow that to happen would be both irresponsible and not in the interest of the child.
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Like(0) Abusive Comment(0)"circumcision would only be carried out with parental consent, making the practice legally separate from an act that causes bodily harm." Non-therapeutic circumcision always does cause bodily harm, and parental consent won't change that. Circumcision was illegal since 1949 under the Grundgesetz, it just took the Cologne court to point it out. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child point in the same direction. The world just doesn't see it yet. Just calling infant genital cutting "the Jewish and Muslim lifestyle" doesn't stop it from being a human rights abuse. If by saying that making the cutting of genitals illegal is "not in the best interests of the child", you mean it would drive the practise underground, well, that never stopped any country from making it illegal - no matter how minor or tokenistic - when the child is a girl.
Like(1) Abusive Comment(1)Unfortunately it is / has been circumcision that has MADE for no end of anti-semitic sentiments. Freud found that it was the chief reason for unconscious anti-Semitism. And the myths surrounding it are at the core of the “blood libel.” Thus, It's time to eliminate the Brit Milah because if that is the chief reason for being anti-Semitic or anti-Abrahamic [Islam too practices the rite] then why hang on to this left-over of human sacrifice? that traumatizesthe child, cutting off 5,000 nerves, that is the equivalent of female circumcision in the sense that it eliminates everything but the clitoris,and only serves the UltraOrthodox to maintain their power? After all, reform Judaism sought to eliminate the rite in the 19th century, and Jewish identity depends on being born by a Jewish mother, or converting. Here a link to an archive of the entire German and then some debate, note especially Michael Wolffsohn's two pieces . Circumcision has been controversial also within Jewry forever. Making it a taboo to compare male with female sexual mutilation is the biggest scandal of the controversy. In both instances the most sensitive and most erogenous zone of the human bod is amputated and severely damaged. In both instances, what counts primarily is the cutting of human sexuality. The imposition of control by the patriarchy. Ma Die Tabuisierung jeglichen Vergleichs von männlicher mit weiblicher Genitalverstümmelung ist der große Skandal der Debatte. In beiden Fällen wird der empfindsamste und erogenste Teil des menschlichen Körpers amputiert oder schwer beschädigt. In beiden Fällen geht es in erster Linie um die Beschneidung menschlicher Sexualität. http://evidentist.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/beschneidung-ignoranz-und-sexismus/ http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-circumcision-debate-links-and.html Eine Diskussion über das Thema, mit drei Deutschen + einem Amerikanischen Psychologen. http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/2012/08/psychotherapeutenyahoogroupsde.html http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-wolffsohns-foreskin-of-heart.html http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/debatte/article108847257/Die-Vorhaut-des-Herzens.html http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/andere-meinung/gastkommentar-zur-beschneidungsdebatte-danke-deutschland/7160872.html AND DONT FORGET THE ARCHIVE!!! http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-circumcision-debate-links-and.html http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref=name http://www.roloff.freehosting.net/index.html Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society --
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Like(0) Abusive Comment(3)Well said Wheevle!
Like(0) Abusive Comment(1)Why is it a ridiculous thing to waste legislation on Tyler? It would seem to me that protecting the rights of non-consenting babies to not have a perfectly normal, healthy body part amputated for no reason is a pretty important issue; regardless of how many uptight American men, and brainwashed jewish and muslim men claim to be in love with their circumcisions.
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