Santa Monica anti-circumcision backer drops ballot measure bid

[rug]

(JTA) -- The main backer of a ballot measure to ban circumcision in Santa Monica has dropped the effort over its perceived attack on religious freedom.

Jena Troutman told the Jewish Journal Monday afternoon that she would withdraw the proposed ballot initiative to prohibit "Genital Cutting of Male Minors," which she submitted to the Santa Monica City Clerk on May 19, the newspaper reported on its website.

“It shouldn’t have been about religion in the first place,” Troutman told the Jewish Journal. “Ninety-five percent of people aren’t doing it for religious reasons, and with everyone from the New York Times to Glenn Beck focusing on the religious issue, it’s closing Americans down to the conversation.”

Troutman, a lactation consultant and mother of two, was featured in a New York Times article over the weekend about attempts to ban circumcision in Santa Monica and San Francisco.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/06/07/3088044/santa-monica-anti-circumcision-backer-drops-ballot-measure-bid

Bonus: this post includes both circumcision and a breast-feeding consultant.

[Ian David]

1. He didn't have any skin in the game. n/t

[okasha]

2. She.

n/t

[Iggo]

3. Then even more so.

Or would that be "less so"?

[Silent3]

4. I'm completely against circumcision being performed...

...by breast-feeding mothers at Olive Garden.

[Angry Dragon]

5. That bill would have a chance of passing