Accept Alternative Brit Milah (Bris) Practices Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/accept-alternative-brit-milah-bris-practices.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 6 Apr 2026 11:29 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms. Anonymous [Signature #165] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24163378?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Sep 2021 02:10:08 UTC 24163378 Mr. Andre Levy [Signature #164] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23227005?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:21:56 UTC 23227005 Dr. Anonymous [Signature #163] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22047505?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:45:21 UTC 22047505 Mark Moore [Signature #162] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15687565?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:40:21 UTC 15687565 Eugene Belilovsky [Signature #161] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14180378?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 Dec 2012 10:47:45 UTC 14180378 Dr. Mark Reiss [Signature #160] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13902295?utm_medium=rss This is a very important document. I support its principles and have done so for many years. I founded, and now administrate, a listing of Officiants who will help Jewish families with non-t cutting alternative naming ceremonies for their baby Jewish boys, preferably on their 8th day of life. We call this list Celebrants of Brit Shalom. See http://www.circumstitions.com/Jewish-shalom.html.

Mark D. Reiss, M.D.

]]> Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:34:43 UTC 13902295 Mr. Brian Levitt [Signature #159] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13897373?utm_medium=rss I am harmed by brit milah. I believe that ritual circumcision should be outlawed.

]]> Sun, 7 Oct 2012 08:01:46 UTC 13897373 Ms. Lydia Currie [Signature #158] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13879219?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:03:43 UTC 13879219 Mr Andrei Pambuccian [Signature #157] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13878981?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Oct 2012 06:53:41 UTC 13878981 Anonymous [Signature #156] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13877749?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:56:51 UTC 13877749 Mr Anonymous [Signature #155] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13877496?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:15:46 UTC 13877496 Anonymous [Signature #154] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13876195?utm_medium=rss I would so much love to see a bris that could take place with a nicking, or some ceremony that satisfied our traditions and honored Judaism and G-d but that left the child unharmed.

]]> Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:40:46 UTC 13876195 Chad Walliser [Signature #153] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13874153?utm_medium=rss Please stop cutting babies.

]]> Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:23:56 UTC 13874153 Ms. Miriam Pollack [Signature #152] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13870615?utm_medium=rss It's time to look at what we are actually doing when we mandate circumcision. As Rambam clearly articulated in his Guide to the Perplexed, circumcision alters male sexuality. He knew what science has now confirmed: the foreskin is the most erogenous portion of the penis, comprising nearly half of all penile tissue on the adult. Removing this tissue cannot be inconsequential, nor by Jewish standards of ethics, can this be deemed ethical. Circumcision is genital alteration of an non-consenting minor. It cannot be a mitzvah. We need to insist that that which is NOT ethical, cannot be spiritual. An altered penis does nothing to educate or affiliate a man Jewishly. It is time for us to stop crying anti-Semitism and face the very real harm that we have been perpetrating on our baby boys. A brit shalom is the only way to welcome any child into the people and faith of Israel--not genital cutting.

]]> Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:54:25 UTC 13870615 Mr Matthew Campbell [Signature #151] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13870238?utm_medium=rss I am signing this as someone who opposes circumcision, period. Judaism is a great religion but like other religions with this same tradition, it has held onto a practice that isn't isn't benign nor defensible in terms of others' human rights. I am a critic of anything that puts human rights second to anything less than that (i.e., religious rights end where human rights begin). It is not about Judaism, it's about putting human rights first. I feel Islam needs to foreswear this practice also, and of course "secular" circumcisions for anything other than demonstrable medical necessity also need to be stopped. Religions are powerful forces in the human psyche and shape public opinion. If just one major religion like Judaism can be the first to recognize the absence of the need for this practice and indeed the harm of this tradition and stop promulgating it and call for its end publicly, it would do the cause a lot of good. Thanks for your efforts and your courage, it's not easy to stand up to your religious leadership and say "Hey, we need to do something different here!"

]]> Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:46:01 UTC 13870238 Ms Allison Cowen [Signature #150] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13633733?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:38:51 UTC 13633733 Mr Joshua Spencer [Signature #149] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12569978?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:19:19 UTC 12569978 Mr Merrill Weale [Signature #148] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12328563?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:41:45 UTC 12328563 Jessica Adkison [Signature #147] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11874400?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:42:32 UTC 11874400 ms rhiannon cornelius [Signature #146] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11473041?utm_medium=rss reform jews have chosen to not observe many rituals. this should have been the first to go

]]> Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:04:34 UTC 11473041 Mrs. Jamie Smith [Signature #145] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11433771?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:18:15 UTC 11433771 Alison Adams [Signature #144] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11431881?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:40:24 UTC 11431881 Mr. Matthew Taylor [Signature #143] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11431876?utm_medium=rss My body, my rights. You never had the right to cut me.

]]> Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:39:44 UTC 11431876 Mrs Rachel Weisberger [Signature #142] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11431866?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:35:55 UTC 11431866 Richard Felton [Signature #141] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11136484?utm_medium=rss It's barbaric. STOP IT. Shalom

]]> Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:20:44 UTC 11136484 Mr joel caplan [Signature #140] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10464551?utm_medium=rss i would like to explore and be in conversation with other who are considering this option.

joel
413 222 0430

]]> Mon, 16 May 2011 02:45:45 UTC 10464551 Shaun Sarvis [Signature #139] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9415676?utm_medium=rss My first son was born in March, 10 weeks premature. In April, he was circumcised by a neonatologist who has performed as many or more circumcisions than many moyels. The circumcision needed to be corrected. After the "correction" he suffered a somewhat common complication and I was forced to hold him down, screaming while a doctor stitched him up, with no anesthetic (he was bleeding too much to wait on the procedure). Does G-d really want me to subject my children to this?

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:31:10 UTC 9415676 Miriam Zehavi [Signature #138] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9378966?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:23:51 UTC 9378966 Nathan Pautz [Signature #137] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9088078?utm_medium=rss Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:08:01 UTC 9088078 Miss Rebecca Ritter [Signature #136] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8742502?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:41:40 UTC 8742502 Mr Anonymous [Signature #135] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8701393?utm_medium=rss This will make it that much easier when the time comes that Reform Jews must convert to be halachically Jewish.

]]> Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:14:18 UTC 8701393 Mr James Rosenberg [Signature #134] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8487129?utm_medium=rss I don't think it right for us jews to demand circumcision to prove you are Jewish

]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:49:03 UTC 8487129 Mrs. Rachel Weisberger [Signature #133] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8453323?utm_medium=rss Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:52:00 UTC 8453323 Michelle Hinman [Signature #132] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8308381?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:12:02 UTC 8308381 Ms Karen Sussman [Signature #131] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8266050?utm_medium=rss Mon, 2 Aug 2010 07:41:08 UTC 8266050 Ms Amy Lum [Signature #130] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7887510?utm_medium=rss Barbaric rite of passage that needs to be left behind. Welcome in the Brit Shalom!

]]> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:14:50 UTC 7887510 Mrs. Sarah Rockwell [Signature #129] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7869407?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:57:15 UTC 7869407 Ms. Beth Goldflam [Signature #128] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7414958?utm_medium=rss God made us exactly how we are suppossed to be...If God wanted man to be circumsized, he would have created man that way.

]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:25:57 UTC 7414958 Anonymous [Signature #127] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7338587?utm_medium=rss It is a barbaric and horrifying practice, and I cant believe people still do it. It is disgusting and horrible.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:43:24 UTC 7338587 Kathleen Platt [Signature #126] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7100269?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:15:16 UTC 7100269 Dr Shulamith Sarner [Signature #125] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7035369?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:01:46 UTC 7035369 Mr Guy Lotan [Signature #124] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6936122?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:50:45 UTC 6936122 Dr. Ronald Goldman [Signature #123] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6743188?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:41:06 UTC 6743188 Ms Debbie Kessler [Signature #122] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6732884?utm_medium=rss I asked Rabbi yesterday if he would give my son a ceremony without cutting- he said no- his reasoning:he didn't want other people 2 be influenced by this altered ceremony- he didn't want it 2 spread-was his reason- to have control- not a very compassionate answer I must say & sad- it is the child's right to choose- & 2 put it further he was so uneducated about the procedure he didn't even know there were 2 steps-2 cuts- & the history of it all. B/c I asked about just doin the 1st step-No he said

]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:56:46 UTC 6732884 Mr Steven Redstone [Signature #121] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6052792?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:08:50 UTC 6052792 Mr Jeffery Eshleman [Signature #120] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5867823?utm_medium=rss Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:31:16 UTC 5867823 Mrs Lori Plans [Signature #119] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5734738?utm_medium=rss I am a Pediatric nurse as well as a mother of a son. I am currently expecting our second child and if this child is a boy, most likely will have a Brit Shalom ceremony in lieu of the Brit Milah. If we so choose circumcision foro our son, it will be prior to his discharge from the hospital by my OB. My 2 yr old son had a butchered job done by a Moel and a surgucal procedure should be performed under sterile conditions in the confines of a hospital.

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:50:34 UTC 5734738 Mrs Irene Borisov-Ning [Signature #118] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5279110?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:14:35 UTC 5279110 dani martinez [Signature #117] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5150163?utm_medium=rss when many jews pick and choose which laws and rites and rituals they will follow, why do so many feel so compelled to perform the one ritual that is permanently, irreversibly, traumatically damaging to their newborn sons? its truly time we consider our humanity first..we need to protect our brand new baby boys. give them a choice. bodily integrity is a human right we are ALL entitled to. under ANY other circumstance, this would be seen as the most heinous of abuses....

]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:27:19 UTC 5150163 Mrs Amelia Schipper [Signature #116] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5130853?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:21:49 UTC 5130853 MATTTHEW DROBNICH [Signature #115] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4920920?utm_medium=rss JUST AS GIRLS ARE GIVEN RELIGIOUS/CULTURAL RIGHTS, THE BOYS SHOULD BE AS WELL. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO FORCE THEIR RELIGION ON OTHERS ESPECIALLY IF THAT INVOLVES MUTILATION OR REMOVAL OF BODY PARTS

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:21:29 UTC 4920920 Mr Anonymous [Signature #114] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4710906?utm_medium=rss I identify myself with Judaism as a nation/people. Yet, I'm not religious or beliving, if not even athestist. So I see no point for me in doing this and I'm really mad at my parents (though it wasn't their fault but of society), that I wasn't asked if I'd like to sacrifice a part of me. I'm really jealous on uncut guys here in Germany and always wonder, how sex would feel with a foreskin or how it would have looked today. If it is about blood, take a needle and take a sting.

]]> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:31:33 UTC 4710906 mrs sarah ezra [Signature #113] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4548268?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:55:53 UTC 4548268 Dr. Benjamin Freedman [Signature #112] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4544752?utm_medium=rss This one's a no brainer.

]]> Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:30:57 UTC 4544752 Sam Kesler [Signature #111] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4544241?utm_medium=rss As a Jew and a degreed bioethicist, I am deeply saddened by the prevailing practice of neonatal circumcision in our tradition. At this point, I am simply hoping for the paradigm shift, hoping that it will happen rather quickly, over the span of the next generation.

]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:21:36 UTC 4544241 Ms. Joshua Beth [Signature #110] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4066382?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:57:33 UTC 4066382 Mr. David Thorpe [Signature #109] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4015351?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:09:10 UTC 4015351 Jennifer Coias [Signature #108] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3966650?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:00:12 UTC 3966650 Mr. Martin Chojnacki [Signature #107] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3965380?utm_medium=rss I'm not Jewish, but I have read a lot on the bris milah practice, and to me it's seems to me more of a ritual rather than an act of faith. Not to mention that it's marking an infant physically with an irreversible procedure when the infant's future faith is unknown. So, no, I do not believe in the procedure in the neonatal period, and I have personally came across Jews who were not circumcised, but still uphold their faith.

]]> Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:28:02 UTC 3965380 claude parent [Signature #106] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3665346?utm_medium=rss Heart instead...

Thank's for them (including moms).

From those who understand...

]]> Mon, 26 May 2008 09:22:12 UTC 3665346 Mrs. Kerensa Jablonka [Signature #105] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3389237?utm_medium=rss I believe that we make covenants with our hearts, not with our genitals.

]]> Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:09:28 UTC 3389237 MRS SARAH HANNA [Signature #104] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3363178?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:09:27 UTC 3363178 leif watkins [Signature #103] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3123724?utm_medium=rss I am totaly against circumcision it is out dated n things have got to change

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:23:30 UTC 3123724 Mrs Kathryn Shut [Signature #102] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3099497?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:43:22 UTC 3099497 Dr. Jason Frishman [Signature #101] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3050260?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:35:27 UTC 3050260 Mrs Angélique R [Signature #100] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3027618?utm_medium=rss I can't believe that in 2008 this "thing" could continue! Today we have showers and soap, so how could some "people" justify this practise by hygiene??? And what about human rights? Children rights?
I'm not agaisnt this practise if it's a CHOICE, with aknowledge of risks.

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:15:29 UTC 3027618 Mr Charles Antonelli [Signature #99] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2896878?utm_medium=rss Circumcision harms people forever!

]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:59:30 UTC 2896878 mr a kaufer [Signature #98] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2737474?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:23:08 UTC 2737474 Anonymous [Signature #97] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2729892?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:49:27 UTC 2729892 Mrs Laura Farrar [Signature #96] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2727904?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:40:17 UTC 2727904 Mr Andrew Kohler [Signature #95] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2726800?utm_medium=rss Having recently reread Genesis 17, the unexplained mandate for circumcision, I cannot see why it is any more relevant than the many other passages of the Torah--including those pertaining to attitudes toward women and LGBT individuals, capital punishment, and even slavery--that we have rejected as an enlightened movement. While G-d's reasoning is unexplained in Genesis, Maimonides himself suggested that the ritual serves to "weaken" the male genitalia. Let us end this antiquated practice.

]]> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:13:54 UTC 2726800 Ms Rachel Goldberg [Signature #94] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2660605?utm_medium=rss Fri, 7 Dec 2007 01:41:47 UTC 2660605 April Howell [Signature #93] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2647505?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 Dec 2007 05:43:12 UTC 2647505 mr dave elemans [Signature #92] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2622613?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:28:18 UTC 2622613 Mrs Sarah Brice [Signature #91] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2517322?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:04:17 UTC 2517322 Howard Anderson [Signature #90] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2501686?utm_medium=rss This practice for any reason, religious or medical (?) should be stopped. Any cutting produces damage. If one really feels it is necessary for their religion, then let the baby make the decision when they are old enough. Babies are easy targets because they are defensless against such assaults. I am non-Jewish, but all communities must come together to ban this outrageously gruesome practice.

]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:29:31 UTC 2501686 Anonymous [Signature #89] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2377318?utm_medium=rss Not practicing, but from a Jewish family.

]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:36:47 UTC 2377318 Mr. Daniel Hoffmann [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2364107?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:29:49 UTC 2364107 Ms Joy Davis [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2360150?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:26:13 UTC 2360150 Mrs. Phillis Friedman [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2353906?utm_medium=rss It is time to do away with the barbaric practice of the bris. God would not want us to harm our sons in this way and it is harm!

Our son is whole and intact. To have chosen a bris for him would violate his human and civil rights as a person.

]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:54:10 UTC 2353906 Ms Gilda Davis aka Lestat [Signature #85] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2324523?utm_medium=rss Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:01:27 UTC 2324523 ms. kristi nelson [Signature #84] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2311045?utm_medium=rss i believe in everyone's right to practice their own religion but not to force mutilation upon babies.

]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:15:51 UTC 2311045 Ms Jacqueline O'Sullivan [Signature #83] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2292930?utm_medium=rss I believe that the reason they circumsize their boys at birth is because to remind them that they are imperfect and therefore helps them to spend their lives trying to be better. I do not know if this is correct though.
But I will give you these words I read "everyone should remain what he/she is and respect what others are."
Although I do not hold with circumsision find it unnecessary - I respect the Jewish Laws.
Love & Light

]]> Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:49:13 UTC 2292930 mr steve bailey [Signature #82] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2282485?utm_medium=rss i can see no reason to circumcise jewish boys
if they are raised as jews they will know they are jews without having to obliterate
their sex organ.

we donot sacrifice animals in the temple any longer and jewish life has continued.
so who says this body modification
will make us more of a feeling caring
and observant jew

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:13:41 UTC 2282485 Ms Anonymous [Signature #81] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2261878?utm_medium=rss I believe that times have changed since the ritual of neonatal circumsision began. After a lot of research and asking a lot of questions I have decided against this ritual and am going with the Alternative Brit ceramony. I believe that circumsision is not needed and does cause unessesary pain. I was upset to learn that this is unrecognized in many parts of Judism. I think it's time to re-evaluate.

]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:43:30 UTC 2261878 Anonymous [Signature #80] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2242459?utm_medium=rss Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:30:12 UTC 2242459 Dr. Gloria Glickstein Brame [Signature #79] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2141011?utm_medium=rss As a clinical sexologist, I strongly support an end to this medically unnecessary and risky practice. As a Jew, I believe we must bend to the science and accepts its truth as God's truth. As a citizen of the modern world, I feel we must acknowledge that circumcision is nonconsensual genital mutilation, no different from other types of forced ritualistic mutilation. It is time for change.

]]> Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:03:43 UTC 2141011 Mr Russell Pendergraft [Signature #78] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138454?utm_medium=rss Stop this insanity,children are born perfect,they need no alterations!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:48:10 UTC 2138454 Lindsy Van Gelder [Signature #77] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2138149?utm_medium=rss I think circumcision is also questionable on feminist political grounds. What are we telling our kids when boys have a special genital covenant with God and girls do not? A brit shalom ceremony for both genders seems to me to be where we should be heading.

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:32:51 UTC 2138149 Craig Chrisco [Signature #76] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2137618?utm_medium=rss Forced nonconcentual genital sexual mutilation of nonconcenting minors is an atavistic practice best abandoned and a clear violation of human rights.

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:22:12 UTC 2137618 Sophy Winnick [Signature #75] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2132711?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:13:32 UTC 2132711 Paul Gaudet [Signature #74] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2123036?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:49:23 UTC 2123036 Anonymous [Signature #73] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2093661?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:18:50 UTC 2093661 Jeremy Brennan [Signature #72] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2089667?utm_medium=rss We are not all living in the desert any more. If my son's decide they want the procedure done for religious or other reasons then I will support them when they are old enough to decide.

]]> Fri, 6 Jul 2007 04:57:44 UTC 2089667 Mrs Dena Kozera [Signature #71] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2069252?utm_medium=rss Genital Integrity is a human rights issue - not a religious one. My son had a naming ceremony - not a bris. When will baby boys be equal to baby girls in judism

]]> Sun, 1 Jul 2007 03:05:24 UTC 2069252 Most Rev. Sean-Michael Lyons, RCF [Signature #70] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2067143?utm_medium=rss As a progressive clergy member myself, I endorse all manner of modifications to tradition that lead to a deeper experience of the Almighty & one another. There are alternative bris ceremonies being conducted, & the fullness of Jewish expression & fidelity to the Torah continue. And if he still wants the surgery when he is of age, then let him. Parents & families can raise him in his faith tradition without such trauma & pain. And if he still wants the surgery when he is of age, then let him.

]]> Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:53:38 UTC 2067143 Mark Wills [Signature #69] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2065984?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:42:51 UTC 2065984 Ms. Anonymous [Signature #68] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2045451?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:55:55 UTC 2045451 K. Rosenblum [Signature #67] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032686?utm_medium=rss "Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Jewish movement, based on the ideas of the late Mordecai Kaplan, that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. The movement emphasizes positive views towards modernism, and considers religious custom to be subservient to personal autonomy". -Wikipedia

If this is really true, none of them should have a problem endorsing this petition!

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:35:31 UTC 2032686 Eric Anderson [Signature #66] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032174?utm_medium=rss 'Let no man tear asunder what God has put in place'.

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:51:52 UTC 2032174