reverend, you say in one of your posts that you prefer being cut but how would you know? What do you have to compare it to? If you had been cut later in life, fine, but you were cut as a newborn so have no comparison. You may prefer the way it looks to an uncut dick but you'll never know if it feels better.
as i've said a few times already, nor do i care. because it feels great. no, i don't know personally. just from talking with uncut friends who described the pros and cons of it to me. and after considering what they said, i realized i like how it looks, how it feels, everything about it. i'm proud of my cock. if my parents had decided to leave it be, i might be just as proud or i might've stormed into a doctor's office when i turned 18 and said "get rid of the damn thing." no way to know one way or another...but what i can be fairly certain of is my belief that no one here or in the government has the right to get involved in what is, for many people, a fundamental religious ceremony and for others a tradition or custom. that would remain true because those are the values i was brought up with.
i was cut and i'm fine. none of my friends who were cut have any complaints whatsoever (at least, not about that :wink
. so i don't see it as this grand evil that so many people here are attempting to portray it as. i think it can be a good thing, and i'll pass that on to my sons. and that's mine and my future wife's decision, not anyone else's.
I believe anyone who sees children being subjected to things they disagree with has a right to stand up for those children who can't stand up for themselves. Forty years ago if the net had been around there'd have been parents arguing it was in the child's best interests that they were punished by being beaten with a belt, now no one would defend that position. In another forty years we'll look back and view circumcision in the same light. Altering another's body without their explicit permission is assuming you have rights of ownership of that body.
and again, the parallel to abortion comes to mind. because i'd say "death" is a pretty big alteration to someone's body, not to mention their mind and soul. so are those pro-life protestors in the right to stand outside of abortion clinics and use scare tactics to drive people away, refusing to open their minds to any other points of view and shouting down any dissent because in their minds they're protecting the children?
i disagree about the forty years analysis you've given. it's been thousands of years since the custom was put in place. it's evolved and progressed and been refined over the years, but it's still here. most of the people i hear complain about it, at least amongst men, are uncut. the majority of those of us who went through it are doing just fine, thanks.