Wednesday, July 14, 2004

B.C. Federation of doctors criticizes circumcision

The doctors find that circumcision is medically unnecessary (which nobody disputes.)

They interviewed one of the doctors on Canada A.M. and he danced around the religious question as it applies to Muslims and Jews. But any future human rights court should be warned - Jews will not be able to give this up. 2200 years ago, a Greek King named Antiochus Epiphanes tried to force the Jews to end this practice, the most important sign of the covenant for a Male Jew. The Jewish people had to fight a brutal war to maintain the right to retain their Judaism. That fight is what Hannukah commemorates.

But what do you do when two different kinds of established human rights collide? Someday, I predict, this will land in a courtroom. It should make for interesting drama when it does.

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