San Francisco Judge to Strike Circumcision Ban From Ballot
- Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:34pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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SAN FRANCISCO (The Blaze/AP) — A San Francisco trial judge says she intends to strike a ban on male circumcision from the city’s November ballot.
Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi said in a tentative ruling Wednesday that the proposed law prohibiting circumcision of male children violates a California law that makes regulating medical procedures a function of the state, not cities.
Giorgi ordered San Francisco’s elections director to remove the controversial measure from the ballot to be considered by city voters.
The San Francisco city attorney’s office says Giorgi plans to hear arguments on the issue Thursday before making her ruling final.
The ban’s sponsor, anti-circumcision activist Lloyd Schofield, did not immediately respond to a telephone call and email from The Associated Press seeking comment.
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Comments (58)
mrsmileyface
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:14amHURRAY!! we found one sane person in San Fran. Millions to go.
Report Post »Juergensen
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:41amAccording to the article I cite below, the man behind the ban, Lloyd Schofield, is likely a ****, which tells us all we need to know about the ban:
“So who is Schofield? He won‘t say much other than that he’s a 58-year-old who used to work for a ‘major hotel chain.’ He lives with his partner near Buena Vista Park, and they have no children.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=77266
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:17amHow dare they artifically [from the bench] ensure this barbaric practice-a violation of peoples’ freedom -continue to be propped up without challenges and recourse by the people!.Of course if only muslims practiced this forced mutiliation of a child it would have already been banned never mind by the people[ballot].Typical double standard!
sWampy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:26amRose typical name calling, religious baiting, and bogus statements, you sure make a first class liberal.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:12pmRose ellen i dont no where to start as it is plain to see you are mentally un stable. But i am sure you are the type that thinks its okay to abort a baby with a heart beat with a pair of scissors get a life you ignorant piece of shi-
Report Post »black9897
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 11:02amOf course it’s ok to do..if you don‘t want it done then don’t do it! Besides, who can even remember pain from when they were a baby?? I sure don’t!
Report Post »Greenwood
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 9:21pm@ROSE_ELLEN………….What is this obsession you have with muslims? Your constant bloviating on the subject everyday is getting a bit excessive.
Report Post »Aikes
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:37amToo bad. It is an elective surgery done on babies. It is extremely painful and no different than slicing off large portions of skin from the fingers. The United States can thank Hitler for this becoming common place here. Because of something the Nazis did long before many of us were born, Jewish doctors performed it on all new born babies in order to hide people of the Jewish faith in case any Nazi round ups came to our shores. The United States didn’t become Jew-hunting fascists and the threat to Jewish people now is far from being Christians and free nations. This truly is an outdated practice that should be ended. Now we have several generations of people who were born generations after this practice began and babies are being put under the knife for no reason other than to make the acceptable and “part of the crowd.”
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:04amWhy shouldn’t it be left up to the choice of the parents? I mean you can’t have it both ways, some say a baby is just tissue and have no problems with abortions, and some say it‘s the woman’s right to choose, but yet when it comes to faith ot the choice to have religious things done, all of a sudden, the “Right To Chose Thing” becomes Mute?
So are you saying only Liberals should have rights? I’m not trying to demean you, just pointing out the Choice issue
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:27amSteven, why should’nt it be left up to the parents? Because Obozo says so and he is the King, LOL.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:23amUnnecessary, maybe, but it sure solves a lot of problems that develop down the line that cost a lot of wasted resources to fix. I‘ve had several friends that had parents that didn’t want this done, and got multiple infections while growing up that had them missing school, walking funny, and being made fun of by other kids. I have known several 12-25 year olds that have gotten internal infections that doctors told them would never be cured until they had this surgery, at that age it’s not a quick snip and a little plastic cap, it’s a full blown surgery with days of painful recovery.
Report Post »BeeAlert
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 2:37pmWhat kind of crack-head are you? Nothing you said is true or even makes any sense. Apart from the procedure being painful, but they have ANESTHESIA for that. Vitamin K shots are painful too, yet mandatory for all babies in the US. Also there are health reasons for doing it, which is why now, not only Jewish people do it. Not some wack Jewish-doctor conspiracy as you seem to think.
Report Post »ZABO
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 4:54ammr. schofeild should be removed from the u.s.a. or just maybe those instruments used to cut off the foreskin should be used to cut out this idiot’s tongue.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 3:23amYall a riot!!!!!! Tears in my eyes…….I thought the introduction of that idea was ridiculous from the beginning. The left/liberal/progressive/ dim-o-crats/ socialist, marxist and communist are scraping the bottom of the barrel coming up with these “INSANE” CHILDISH attacks. Desperation causes one to do a veritable plethora of idiotic, low class and 3rd grade type ideas.
Report Post »Sharlene
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 2:42amTo: THE BLAZE
When a post is rejected by THE BLAZE, it would be helpful if THE BLAZE would let the commentator know why the post was rejected so the commentator won’t repeat the same mistake again.
Thanks
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:12amsometimes it is just a software issue. sometimes they show up much later.
Report Post »just FYI
SunnyinVegas
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 3:55pm…and sometimes you have to log out and log back in and your comment will be there
Report Post »Sharlene
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 2:36amI did speak my mind and it wasn’t posted. Perhaps the Blaze can e-mail me to let me know why they did not accept my comments. You have my e-mail address.
Report Post »Buttercup
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:27amMaybe a start would be to read the Comment Policy and Terms of Use. Or maybe someone “reported this.” But I agree, it would be helpful to know why something wasn’t posted.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:17amThat place has become so disgusting…….soon people will realize the behaviors“they” want to call “Normal” will come to haunt America is a very dark ways………..children, the more they are exposed to all of this will become very confused and their behaviors will not be normal.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:52amTales you win, heads you loose….
Report Post »WhatWasShallBe
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:43amSan Francisco…….The poor mans Babylon.
All the “California will become detached from the U.S. by an earthquake” talk has my hopes up
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:08amMaybe a few hundred thousand folks on the fault line with crow bars would help. I’d go :)
Report Post »xoke
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:31amThe jokes here are too easy to make, lol. Just remember kids, if you drop your keys in San Francisco, just be sure to kick them to Oakland before you pick them up. Just saying.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:39ami guess the judge didn’t have “skin” in the game (oh yes i did).
btw, i accepted glenn’s comments about that school in norway at face value…….i wouldn’t be schocked if they sang “tomorrow belongs to me” or any other such song. i remember when barry soetoro first usurped the presidency, they had k-6 kids singing his praise and older kids doing military dance routines.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:42amTomorrow belongs to Tea. I like the tune.
Report Post »william.wadsworth
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:29amThanks California judge for striking down this anti-semitic attack.
Report Post »espianostudio
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:25amLet’s Celebrate. Cocktails anyone?
Report Post »264win
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:24amtest
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:23amThere for a while I thought Lorina Bobbit was going to get a full time job.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:12amReminds me of a song…
“I left my h a r d in San Francisco”
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:21am“The boys in gay bay didn’t have enough skin in the game”
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:22amYou nasty LOL
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:12amSanity might still reign? even in California?
Report Post »johnconnersmom
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:28amThere are a few of us left here…
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:04amand the award for the funniest analogy goes to…. RESTORED ONE!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:02amwhew, now thats cutting it a bit close !!!!!!!
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:58pmWhew,let the State decide who plays with my foreskin.I feel better now.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:55pmThe hood of ignorance has been lifted.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:07amsorry rien, read his first. yours probally would have won the award!
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 12:20amThanks GODHATESACOWARD much appreciated, I like RESTORED ONE’S too.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:53pmI didn’t think that dumb ban would ever become law….even in San Francisco.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:49pmThank God. It would’ve been cut (Ha!) from the ballot anyway ‘cuz of impingement of religious rights.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:49pmYeah, I guess the measure has been cut short.
Report Post »Whimcycle
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:44pmSo, the whole thing has been nipped in the bud, so to speak?
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 11:48pmI “TIP” my hat to madam.
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