[Skybird]

By that logic of yours - the deed is done, so get over it - you can screw all law enforcement. The crime is done, so why the noise?

It is not about you and your past. It is about those children today and the freedom to choose that now or in the future gets taken away from them - or is bein g left to them so that thy can choose by their own decision when they are grown up.

Why I care? For the same reason why i care when children in my neighbourhood would get beaten up by parents, or would get hurt by their parents, of would get abused.

If you do not understand that, you would just illustrate the kind of egoist desinterest that is so very much modern today and that time and again gets brought to new heights if this kind of coldhearted desinterest is founded on religious rules and thoughts. Nothing beats the the inhumanity and mercilessness that religion shows when it comes to enforcing its morals on people. "The maximum of possible cruelty is still not enoiugh for the enemies of my God". "Whatever hit you in suffering and pain, it serves oyu right for you do not follow the will of my God." "You do not believe in my God, so we pull you into the light of the purifying fire."

I do not care much for babies getting baptised, it is just water and a ritual that causes nothing, done in a round of adults who still got stuck in the superstitiuon of even pre-medieval eras. I got baptised, too, but who cares? There is no watermark on my forehead, nor is anyone in the family caring for such magical stauff anymore - I made them all turning their back on the church.

But circumcision is somethign else, here damage gets done, physcial injury that is irreversible. That is what separates a superstitious but harmless watershow that takes itself way too serious but beyond that does not cause effect, from a crime. And a crime is what it is when you physically or mentally abuse or violate children, pupills (=Schutzbefohlene).

IMO it just adds another argument against religions that there is no moral outcry amongst them over this kind of abuse. If the same thing would be done to children without referring the deed to a religious cult, law enforcement immediately would get engaged and prosecute the parents and the person carrying out the deed.