Clinton does a much better job of arguing this than I do.

Its really a matter of whether you are willing to inflict pain on an infant.


Just because you can't remember it, doesn't mean it hasn't happened. We know that often children who are sexually abused cannot remember the event because of the trauma. This is what I mean by the 'failure to protect' syndrome, ie: I don't know why I am so angry with my mother. She has never been anything but kind and loving. (Its because she failed to protect you).


McGrath - I have the same question as you do - "The strange thing is how this rather odd cultural idiosyncracy became common practice in the USA in a secular context, whereas in most parts of the world it has been more or less confined to the field of religious ritual."