The practice of infant male circumcision is under assault, and though a proposed bill to ban circumcision in Santa Monica, California was withdrawn, the battle is far from over.

Opponents of circumcision are relying on gross misstatements of scientific fact to launch, what is in effect, an attack on organized religion and the health of the American people.

The anti-circumcision movement has its origins in San Francisco, and in recent years has become national in scope.  MGMBill is one of the leading organizations in the movement, and is responsible for the anti-circumcision San Francisco and Santa Monica bills. According to MGMBill’s website, a few months ago “every member of Congress, state legislators in Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington,” received an anti-circumcision proposal.

Last year, Democrat Michael W. Morrissey proposed an anti-circumcision piece of legislation in Massachusetts: S1777, which was defeated.  The anti-circumcision movement recently collected enough signatures (7,168) to get the measure on the November 2012 ballot in San Francisco.

Matthew Hess of MGMBill is one of the leaders behind the proposed circumcision bans.  Hess is also the writer and editor of “Foreskin Man,” a comic book published by MGMBill.  Two of the illustrations here from his comic book show blatant anti-Semitism.   Anti-Semitism of this nature is unheard of in the U.S. and should be an alarming red flag to all.

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If you tried to buy a homeowners’ insurance policy for much more than the actual value of your home, no one would sell it to you.  The reason is that having such a policy would enable one to prosper financially were the home somehow to be destroyed.  This creates for you, what is called a “moral hazard“.   You have a significant financial incentive to do something wrong.  It is anathema for the insurance industry designed to protect against risk to enable such a risk.

So what if you were a government bureaucrat in possession of the power to help a business to prosper financially by doing something wrong?  Imagine if you had the power to wave your pen and deliver one million new clients to a purveyor of a particular product.  Some might say you have a moral hazard.   Just as insurance companies have a duty not to create that risk, so do those in charge of taxpayer funds.

In New York, some public employees concerned about side effects, and their civil liberties, are protesting because Dr. Richard Daines, New York State health commissioner has mandated that they receive the h1n1 vaccines or be fired.   Did the Governor order this?  No, an unelected bureaucrat essentially placed the order with the vaccine manufacturers.

In Missouri, prior to 2002, all mandated vaccines were voted into law by Legislators.  In that year, the appointed Director of the Department of Health added to the list of mandated vaccines, a compound against Chicken Pox.  With one stroke of the pen, a single bureaucrat created a demand for fresh orders for hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine, annually.  One can speculate about the profit in those orders.

In Texas, Governor Perry, usually a solid conservative got loopy over the Gardasil fervor and mandated that girls in his State receive the controversial vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease.   Girls as young as nine years old now have the State forcing upon them conversations about promiscuity and sexually transmitted disease.

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