My baby’s rights trump my feelings - removing a child’s body parts without its consent due to *my* religious beliefs is a violation of my child’s religious freedom & an imposition of my own cultural values onto a defenceless baby. I endorse an age of consent for male circumcisionhttps://twitter.com/lbc/status/969976660446588933 …
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Replying to @MaajidNawaz
Maajid, I would like to give you another perspective on this. Although many people choose their religious outlook when they reach maturity, there is no substitute for being raised within the traditions of the faith based community of your family. 1/
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
If your faith is important to you, and you choose to not raise your child in it, then you deny the child the opportunity to experience religion in a natural, loving, celebratory and non coercive manner. It would be unthinkable, in my tradition, Judaism 2/
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
to raise a boy without circumcision & make him feel outside the community. Of course, you have to do what is right for you in your heart. Just as it is wrong to impose religion on someone, it is also wrong to shame someone for their beliefs or impose anti-religion. 3/3
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Replying to @StopBDS_PSFC @MaajidNawaz
How is removing a foreskin from a baby who can’t consent non-coercive?
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Replying to @brigadam @MaajidNawaz
Babies don't consent to vaccinations. They don't consent to wearing diapers, or clothing for that matter. They don't consent to eating. You cannot make the case that circumcision is damaging or detrimental. So what is your point?
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Here is a comprehensive argument for the reasonableness of viewing circumcision as both damaging and detrimental https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2986449 …
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