Angela Merkel intervenes over court ban on circumcision of young boys (in Germany)

[riderinthestorm]

131. Won't be the first time. I also support legal banning of burqas.

I'm absolutely certain I'm not in the mainstream - YET! Doesn't bother me in the least. It used to be commonplace that women were beaten by their husbands without legal recourse or children were raped by their fathers without legal recourse. It also used to be common for slaves to be hunted down as chattel and lethal drunk drivers to get a misdemeanor.

Its NOT cultural relativism to believe slavery is wrong, foot binding is wrong, FGM is wrong, child marriage is wrong. It what we've grown to believe as a society. They're simply moral wrongs. So is permanently disfiguring a child's body to simply mark them as religious tribal members.

What's wrong about your position is that you want to support and allow a religious or cultural practice simply because that culture or religion has "always" done it, or their mythical sky god "requires" it, or ... That's cultural relativism at its most despicable.

Regardless of its inherent physical or personal damage you don't have the moral courage to confront those wrongs. Cowardice defined.

Just because you've had to endure religious tribal markings, you think its fine to subject infants to that pain and suffering without their consent. Typical.