Santa Monica residents may get to vote soon on whether circumcisions can be done in the beach city.
Now Santa Monica to Vote on Banning Milah
Santa Monica residents may get to vote soon on whether circumcisions can be done in the beach city.
San Francisco residents learned this week that a measure will be on their November ballot allowing them to vote on whether or not to ban circumcision in their city. Now, if a petition about to begin circulating succeeds in garnering enough signatures, residents of Santa Monica could soon have the same opportunity, The Journal has learned. Santa Monica City officials were not available late Friday to say how many signatures will be needed.
Sources provided The Journal with a copy of memorandum from the Santa Monica City clerk addressed to the city attorney, along with a Notice of Intent to Ciruculate a Petition, filed with the Santa Monica City Clerk on Thursday, May 19, which proposes adding an initiative prohibiting “Genital Cutting of Male Minors” to a ballot in a future election in Santa Monica.
Included with the notice is the text of the proposed initiative, which is identical to the text of the initiative approved in San Francisco on May 17.
The text allows for exceptions to the ban only in cases where a surgical removal of the foreskin is deemed “necessary to the physical health of the person on whom it is performed.”
Religion is not an excuse, despite the fact that the practice of circumcision is a sacred ritual of both Judaism and Islam.
The petition also suggests that the act of circumcising be treated as a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine of up to $1,000 and/or a sentence of up to one year in county jail.
mordechai
I never thought I would live the day hat in america Bris would be outlawed. I thought France would have banned it before it would ever come to USA.
Wakeup Yidden, America is not less Anti Semitic than any European Country.
Andrea Schonberger
These proposed bans on brit milahs are totally getting out of hand. It’s not genital mutilation.
Yosy
Welcome to Obama’S liberal America!
Goy
Poor chickens, poor infants, animal rights, human rights, yea yea yea. Nothing new. Hitler would say the same thing.
Jew haters hide behind the innocent face of liberal good-ism. I won’t fall for it.
America is no different
is this painting by Klienman, anybody?
Yossel
I would hope that the Supreme Court would determine these ordinances to be a violation of religious freedom….crazy liberals! I hope someone tells Mike Savage about this!