XPost: uk.legal, soc.culture.irish, soc.women   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: NOTsomeone@microsoft.com   
      
   On 21/09/2012 15:49, Norman Wells wrote:   
      
   > There will be no way of persuading them short of criminal sanctions.  It   
   > will have to be imposed either by the courts under the present law, or   
   > by a change in the existing law if the courts find it difficult.  The   
   > courts in Germany are already going that way.   
      
   There have only been a couple of cases. The result is that the German   
   government said that it will take all steps needed (if any!) to make   
   male circumcision legal.   
      
      
      
   > If a case were to be   
   > brought in Britain, I have no doubt it would be found to be an assault,   
   > with the appropriate criminal sanctions applied.  I can see no valid   
   > defence.   
   >   
      
   The courts have not agreed with you in the past, Norm, but if they did,   
   the government will have to decide whether to change the law. They would   
   have to decide between the supposed harm to the boys and the certain   
   harm to the country through large scale emigration of the Jewish and   
   Muslim population.  You, of course, may approve of that, and you would   
   most certainly not be alone, particularly amongst the denizens of ukl.   
      
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