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Innocent enquiry @skydancer, do you come from a personal or familial culture that practices circumcisions?
Yes. I was circumcised at birth and I circumcised my son. To no ill effect. I am now an atheist. My son isn't and would really be unhappy if he hadn't been done when he was a week old.
I understand why this may be considered barbaric -
removal of the right to any and all religious belief...
Restriction of belief is turning a bit into the thought police. But removal of it as an allowable defence to activities that should otherwise be unacceptable? Yes, definitely.
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Innocent enquiry @skydancer, do you come from a personal or familial culture that practices circumcisions?
To me, from a family with a medically circumcised male relative, but no religious culture of the practice, it is a no brainer that the right to not be cut up as a child outranks the right of the parent to choose to cut up their child based on a religious belief.
Disclaimer:
I would argue for the removal of the right to any and all religious belief to be removed from the set of "universal" human rights. Probably not a topic for discussion here and now.