OK, you think you can cut this off the budget.

For anyone who thinks the funds of government agencies (i.e. our tax dollars), in this case a city and a state funded college are not wasted I give you this.

San Francisco circumcision ban headed for November ballot

San Francisco voters appear likely to be voting on banning male circumcision in November.

Most bans in San Francisco are enacted by the Board of Supervisors, but come November, it sounds like voters will have the opportunity to jump on the ban wagon by deciding whether to ban male circumcision.

San Francisco resident Lloyd Schofield said Thursday he is “on track” to have enough signatures to place his proposed measure on the November ballot that would make it illegal to “circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18.”...

OK, I understand the idiot may get enough signatures to put this on the ballot and there may be nothing the city can do about it. But you gotta love where he gets the idea.

…Schofield said he became the proponent of the local ballot measure after being asked to champion a local bill during a July symposium on circumcision held at the UC Berkeley. Schofield said he was approached by those affiliated with a group pushing for a federal bill to “end male genital mutilation in the U.S.,” according to its website, mgmbill.org.
He said he thought about it for two weeks and then decided to do it. “I always knew this was something wrong to do to a child,” he said...

Now the simple fact is this is a matter to be decided on by the boy’s parents. One wonders where the choice and my body crowd are on this. Assuming this passes there will be law suits on the freedom of religion (the Jewish Brit milah ceremony would be outlawed under this act) and other issues. But more to the point it seems that this man is really deranged. If you want to outlaw a simple procedure that has been practiced for centuries for religious and hygiene reasons you really need to get a life.

…Schofield said he is out there himself — not being paid — collecting the signatures outside grocery stores and in neighborhoods like SoMa, the Castro, the Haight and Noe Valley.

“We say: ‘Would you like to help protect the children from forced circumcision? This is a human-rights issue,’” Schofield said…

Also why is UC Berkley holding a conference on this? How about it teach things like History, Literature, English (opps, we are talking California, my bad)?

Something I pray never sees the light of day…but we are talking about a region of the most wacked out state in the union. I will keep an eye on this.