Circumcision is central to my religion but I see nothing sinister in people who oppose it. They have strong arguments too. Different groups have different interests. The same holds for those who oppose kosher slaughtering of animals. They see it as unnecessarily cruel. They have some good arguments on their side though of course I support the right of Jews to slaughter animals how they see fit.
Opposing Jewish interests does not make you a bad person (even though I generally support Jewish interests).
Chaim Amalek writes: “But the fewer the goyim who get circumcised the easier it will be for the goyim to find us just by making us drop our pants.”
So what’s good for the Jews (widespread circumcision among the goyim) might not be good for the goyim?
WP: For nearly three months, no one could find 4-year-old Chase Ryan Nebus-Hironimus.
In late February, his mother, Heather Hironimus, took him and fled their home just before his father was due to pick him up in accordance with their child custody agreement. She then checked into an undisclosed domestic violence crisis shelter, out of reach of the boy’s father and law enforcement, which had labeled Hironimus a fugitive and ordered her arrest.
While the real life Chase was hidden, his name was everywhere — on court documents and Facebook pages, news headlines and protest posters. The Florida toddler has become the focus of a controversial and emotionally charged health debate. Or rather, his foreskin has.
Hironimus opposed circumcision for her son, saying it would be physically and psychological traumatic. His father, Dennis Nebus, wanted him to undergo the procedure, which he said had health benefits and was “the normal thing to do.” But what would normally be a debate between parents has instead played out in a strange and fiercely public manner online, thanks to ongoing legal disputes and a very vocal “Intactivist” campaign to stop the surgery.
Intactivists, who say that circumcision is a medically unnecessary “barbaric violation,” have made Hironimus a martyr and her son a cause celebre. A group called Chase’s Guardians has raised more than $50,000 to pay Hironimus’s legal fees. Intact America, a New York-based nonprofit, is urging Florida doctors not to perform the surgery if Chase is brought to them. Protesters gathered outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse after Hironimus was jailed last week holding signs that read “Free Heather” and “Keep Foreskin and State Separate,” according to the Associated Press.
