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

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209. You can catch flies quicker with honey than with vinegar.

My husband and I did not have our son circumcised. But if he had been born 10 years earlier, we might have. It's not because we were evil people, nor because we were religious fanatics, but just because it seemed normal and expected back then. As far as I once new, the whole male world practiced circumcision and always had done so. At some point I learned that most countries did not circumcise regularly. At some other point I learned that even in the U.S. the practice had not been around that long. I encountered some of the more reasoned arguments against circumcision. And eventually I began to see the practice in a new light. I began to question the normality and necessity of it. What did NOT change my way of thinking was having people tell me that I was a mutilating monster if I even considered it, nor that I was willing to sacrifice my son's well-being for the sake of my "sky-being." Please consider that when you (general "you&quot use this kind of language, you are more likely to push people away then bring them around to your way of thinking. It may make you feel superior but it doesn't do much to save baby boys from the fate you consider so terrible.