Burbank, CA – On Tuesday, Congressman Brad Sherman announced he is preparing to introduce a bill in congress to prevent municipalities nationwide from enacting laws banning male circumcision.
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Today, The Journal has learned, California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D – Burbank/Glendale/Silver Lake) will begin the process of introducing similar legislation in Sacramento.
These legislative moves to stop cities from banning the circumcision of male babies come just one month after a proposition banning all circumcision in the City of San Francisco was approved for inclusion on a November ballot there.
Gatto has represented the Los Angeles-area 43rd district for just over a year; previously he worked for Sherman, a Democratic congressman from Sherman Oaks, for five years, starting as a field representative and rising to the position of district director. It was a conversation with his former boss that convinced the 36-year-old Assemblyman to join the fray over circumcision at the state level and attempt to prevent cities in California from banning a practice that is a sacred rite to Jews and Muslims.
This is a stupid idea. You should not have to pass a law to allow what is already legal!
I am of two minds here. The proposed law may not be a bad idea. But is it really necessary? And why give this stupid San Francisco referendum more attention than it deserves? At the very least, first, let the people of SF defeat this moronic referendum on its own merit, which I think is inevitable, and then, if San Franciscans prove they have no brains, proceed with this proposed law.
The same people who want to legalize Abortion want to ban cercumsicion.