[Skybird]

Herr Berbunch, that is exactly the point that I often have on my mind when being confronted with some religious claim or practice that is aimed at the young, weak, defenceless ones: children. Would people will to do when they are grown-up adults what they have been forced to do while they were little kids? And mind you, mutilation is a one-way street only, there is no reversing possible.

For relgious reasons, children are not left a later choice. rElious mitives denies them the right to make a free choice later, when theya are grown up and adult enough to actually form opinion by themselves and make decisions by their own. If people want to snibble thewir gentials when they are adults, I cannot care less. When people do that to helpless children that simply get forced, I have a problem with it. Like I have with raping children or beating up children or letting starve children as well.

Parents are responsible for their children. That does not mean they own them, or that they are their possessions. Parents are not owners, they are somebody with a duty to care for somebody else until that somebody can take care for himself by his own means.