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sometimes the punchlines just write themselves. The Battle Against Circumcision has gone nuts…literally! Move over, Spider-Man, there’s a new comic book superhero on the prowl, and instead of scaling buildings and webslinging all over the big city, he’s taking on the campaign to outlaw circumcision.
Have you met Foreskin Man?
Activists, calling themselves “Intactivists,” are on a mission to keep babies born in San Francisco from being circumsized, ABC News reports. Leading the campaig is Lloyd Schofield, a former hotel employee, who is fighting for “the rights of babies to keep their foreskin.” Schofield has proposed a citywide ban against the ritual cutting of foreskin on a baby’s penis — which he perceives as a barbaric practice.
“The foreskin is there for a reason,” Schofield argues. “It’s not a birth defect. It serves an important function in a man’s life, and nobody has a right to perform unnecessary surgery on another human being.”
The ban would affecth Jews and Muslims, who practice circumcision as a religious practice central to the covenant between the Jewish people and God. Schofield and his supporters have already garnered over 12,000 signatures supporting the circumcision ban. The initiative will appear on the Nov. 2011 municipal election ballot in San Francisco. If the ban is passed, it would become illegal to “circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years.” Under a clause in the proposed legislation, doctors and Mohel, Jewish professional trained to perform the circumcisions, would be criminally charged/and or fined for overseeing such procedures.
“The book’s publication is an advocacy campaign taken to a new low, and is outrageous. The images, in addition to being offensive, are not particularly original. They’re reminiscent of millennia-old stereotypes that have been used to persecute and oppress Jews,” says a representative with the Jewish Community Relations Council. The religious interest group calls Schofield and his Foreskin Man promos nothing more than a lot of bunch of hot air with some serious racial connotations. As DigitalJournal.com points out:
“The comic book features the hero Foreskin Man, a blond haired blue eyed man reminiscent of the German ‘Aryan,’ fighting the ‘Monster Mohel’ who is drawn in the Nazi style depiction of Jews. The Mohel has a long beard, pointy nose, sharp nails, and an evil demeanor. Some of the panels portray him without pupils, suggesting his demon-like qualities. He is excited to ‘partake’ in the foreskin of the baby. To add the icing to the cake, Hess has not not forgotten to use other antisemetic stereotypes of Jews. The father of the baby, Jethro is portrayed as a rich scheming Jew, who plans to circumcise the baby behind the mother’s back…”
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sometimes the punchlines just write themselves. The Battle Against Circumcision has gone nuts…literally! Move over, Spider-Man, there’s a new comic book superhero on the prowl, and instead of scaling buildings and webslinging all over the big city, he’s taking on the campaign to outlaw circumcision.
Have you met Foreskin Man?
Activists, calling themselves “Intactivists,” are on a mission to keep babies born in San Francisco from being circumsized, ABC News reports. Leading the campaig is Lloyd Schofield, a former hotel employee, who is fighting for “the rights of babies to keep their foreskin.” Schofield has proposed a citywide ban against the ritual cutting of foreskin on a baby’s penis — which he perceives as a barbaric practice.
“The foreskin is there for a reason,” Schofield argues. “It’s not a birth defect. It serves an important function in a man’s life, and nobody has a right to perform unnecessary surgery on another human being.”
The ban would affecth Jews and Muslims, who practice circumcision as a religious practice central to the covenant between the Jewish people and God. Schofield and his supporters have already garnered over 12,000 signatures supporting the circumcision ban. The initiative will appear on the Nov. 2011 municipal election ballot in San Francisco. If the ban is passed, it would become illegal to “circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years.” Under a clause in the proposed legislation, doctors and Mohel, Jewish professional trained to perform the circumcisions, would be criminally charged/and or fined for overseeing such procedures.
“The book’s publication is an advocacy campaign taken to a new low, and is outrageous. The images, in addition to being offensive, are not particularly original. They’re reminiscent of millennia-old stereotypes that have been used to persecute and oppress Jews,” says a representative with the Jewish Community Relations Council. The religious interest group calls Schofield and his Foreskin Man promos nothing more than a lot of bunch of hot air with some serious racial connotations. As DigitalJournal.com points out:
“The comic book features the hero Foreskin Man, a blond haired blue eyed man reminiscent of the German ‘Aryan,’ fighting the ‘Monster Mohel’ who is drawn in the Nazi style depiction of Jews. The Mohel has a long beard, pointy nose, sharp nails, and an evil demeanor. Some of the panels portray him without pupils, suggesting his demon-like qualities. He is excited to ‘partake’ in the foreskin of the baby. To add the icing to the cake, Hess has not not forgotten to use other antisemetic stereotypes of Jews. The father of the baby, Jethro is portrayed as a rich scheming Jew, who plans to circumcise the baby behind the mother’s back…”
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