by Karen on September 14, 2010
Some parents in Florida have sued a hospital over the unwanted circumcision of their son while he was in NICU.
I hope they win and that the judgment is so huge that doctors & hospitals will cease involving themselves in the routine mutilation of little boys.
The parents of a four-year-old boy who was circumcised at a Miami hospital against their wishes are suing the facility.
According to Delgado’s attorneys, Viera’s parents told South Miamidoctors several times that they did not want him circumcised.
Though Viera had spent over a week in the NICU for birth-related complications, at one point, he was taken out of the NICU and the circumcision was performed. (via)
Frankly, I think the adults who do this should be put in jail for a very long time. I don’t care about religious/cultural traditions. No one should get to practice either on the bodies of other people, children included.
by Karen on September 13, 2010
Salman Rushdie has come out in support of Park 51. Rushdie, as you may recall, had a price put on his head by the Iranian government over his book The Satanic Verses.
He says he understands the “sensitivities” of building the site close to where thousands were killed during on Sept. 11, 2001.
But he says First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion should be honored. He adds that he is “not personally” a lover of mosques or any place of worship.
But he says that if people “want a mosque, it seems absolutely right they should have it.” (via: AP)
The New York Post quotes him as explicitly supporting Park51:
It’s just a stupid argument,” said Rushdie, after he spoke at the Brooklyn Book Festival. “Of course they should be able to build a mosque there.”
I wonder what the haters are going to do now now that the man behind one of their reasons for opposing Park51 has come out in support of it.
