In the last session, legislation that would have added penalties to parents for subjecting their daughters to “female circumcision” – more accurately called “genital mutilation” – passed by a near-unanimous margin in the House, but stalled in the Senate. The DFLers who opposed the bill carried out the wishes of the far-left “there are no bad cultural traditions in a multicultural society!” crowd, who believe that further regulating the practice of forever crushing a young female’s chance of enjoying sex would keep families from going to the doctor, lead to troubles with immigration authorities, and push the barbaric practice even farther underground.
Not sure I remember having the same deference to Christian parents who were also snake-handlers. I’ll have to look into that.
The practice is illegal in Minnesota – but taking children to one of the 23 states where it’s not is currently a loophole under Minnesota law.
Mary Franson, the author of the last bill, is back – and pushing it into the face of the multi-culti majority in the House:
Rep. Mary Franson, an Alexandria Republican, said Friedman’s ruling underscores the need for her bill, which passed the House 124-4 in 2017, but never got a vote or hearing in the Senate in the 2017 or 2018 sessions. The Michigan case was the impetus for her bill.
“I will never stop fighting for the safety of little girls, and will keep working to put an end to this barbaric practice and punish parents who subject their daughters to these horrors,” she said in a statement.
Franson is asking for hearings on the bill with the House Health and Human Services Committee.
The committee is chaired by Rena Moran – one of the four DFLers who voted against the bill in the house during the last session.
So the question becomes: will Rena Moran be standing up for the rights of parents to mutilate their children?
C’mon, MBerg. Do you really believe that the state of MN can make decisions like this for the parents? Suppose the state decided to ban or require circumcision, how would you feel about that?
Next, they’ll want to ban acid attacks, and cousin marriage, and child brides. Where does the religious oppression end?
It seems to me this is much more important issue for the Trans community.
Surely some of these little “girls” suffer from gender dysphoria and will want the appropriate SRS protocols when they qualify for government paid surgery. This genital mutilation would make what is already a difficult transition significantly more complicated. In fact genital mutilation may in some cases make full transition impossible. I would think the Transgender Community (as it fashions itself) would be all over this issue. Perhaps they aren’t “woke” to the issue yet.
So if they really believe there are no bad cultural traditions… how do they defend honor killings?
how do they defend honor killings?
They pretend they don’t happen, and criticize anyone who mentions the practice as an Islamaphobe? Just a guess.
I remember reading something written by Oleg Atbashian, who lived in the “socialist paradise” of the USSR, about asking leftists that if all cultures were equal, shouldn’t we place equal value on cannibals and not stymie their cultural beliefs?
Mitch, you are correct in applying the name genital mutilation to this unspeakable practice. In my medical career I had numerous occasions when I observed the results up close and personal. If ever a person wanted to make a woman’s life miserable forever, this would be one way. Beyond that, I will omit details.
If ever a person wanted to make a woman’s life miserable forever, this would be one way
From my reading the Koran and understand their fucked up, stone age culture, that is the goal sadly. Because woman are used as breeding cattle basically and are supposed to be shunned and have no education so they will always depend on the man.
“who believe that further regulating the practice of forever crushing a young female’s chance of enjoying sex would keep families from going to the doctor, lead to troubles with immigration authorities, and push the barbaric practice even farther underground.”
Just like banning psychiatric treatment for homosexual urges has kept people from seeing psychiatrists and has pushed buggery even farther towards the darkest orifices of human depravity. Right?
pffft.