Not too long ago, I posted on the latest bill in Iceland to restrict circumcision to consenting adults.
Circumcision advocates want to call it a "ban," but if putting an age limit on circumcision is a "ban," then alcohol is "banned" in the United States.
Oh no! What to do. Children can't buy beer and those who sell or buy it for them are defying the law!
There are also laws against sex with minors, which means there's a "ban" on sex too!
Or freedoms are being taken away! Oh noes!
Well anyway, according to Arutz Shevah, Israel National News, Iceland is "dropping" the ban.
I mean, measure.
Well, not quite yet, but it seems it's getting there.
According to the article linked above, parliament’s judicial committee recommended against its passage.
That doesn't exactly mean the measure has actually been "dropped" yet, parliament has yet to make a decision.
Also, a rabbi breaks Godwin's Law by invoking Hitler.
"The Nazis enacted such a law in 1933 and we know how it ended," Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the CER, said at a conference in Iceland organized by Protestant and Catholic European groups.
There are laws against female circumcision. How have those ended?
I think the world will be better off once male infant genital mutilation is banned, and the practice is relegated to the trash bin of history where it belongs.
But as I said in my last post, I don't think that day is today, and when that measure does fail, people should not be surprised. I think there are alternative solutions that would satisfy both parties, and those ought to be pursued instead.
Intactivists have a long road ahead of them.
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