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Thread #85446   Message #2121042
Posted By: Little Hawk
07-Aug-07 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Subject: RE: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Yeah. Besides, if everything that some bunch of loudmouthed, soreheaded, prejudiced people don't like got banned in this world...nothing would be legal. Absolutely nothing. We do not need more laws to restrict peopl'es choices.

I mention that not in defence of circumcision, but in response to Rinslinger's last comment. I make it in defence of all human beings' right to decide for themselves what they like and what they believe in...and their responsibility to leave other people alone so that they can made a similar decision on their own part, rather than clamoring for laws that will force everyone else to be like them and do only what they think is the right thing to do!

A society that legally banned people from attending the church of their choice would be just as despicable and dictatorial as one that made it a legal offense NOT to go to church. Societies that ban all religion have existed. Pol Pot's Khymer Rouge regime was one of them. Mao's initial experiments in extreme authoritarianism in China were another.

p.s. I don't go to church. That's my choice. I don't metaphorically spit on people who do either.