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.
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.
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.