Bulls**t alert! Democrats support bill that would legalize female genital mutilation

[TexasTowelie]

By VICTOR JOECKS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

The Nevada Senate will soon consider a bill that would overturn Nevada’s ban on female genital mutilation, and Senate Democrats are tripping over themselves to vote for it.

Why would anyone support rolling back a ban on something Nevada law defines as sexual abuse?

That’s one of the questions supporters of Senate Joint Resolution 2, the “Equal Rights Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, should answer before voting on it as early as Wednesday. SJR2 sponsor Sen. Pat Spearman, D-Las Vegas, didn’t respond to my request for comment.

Congress passed the ERA in 1972 as a constitutional amendment, needing the approval of 38 state legislatures within seven years. Even after Congress bypassed constitutional procedure to extend the deadline by three years, only 35 states approved it. Nevada wasn’t one of them.

Read more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/columns/victor-joecks/democrats-support-bill-would-legalize-female-genital-mutilation

[radical noodle]

1. What else is in it?

Must be tied to something really horrendous like personhood for a zygote.

[Crash2Parties]

2. The writer of that piece is claiming that by ratifying the federal ERA, FGM will be legal. Not true.

The rather...sparse argument said writer makes is that by adding, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” to the US Constitution, because male circumcision is legal, female circumcision will be too. That's patently untrue. Personally, I think it's wrong to remove part of anyone's body before they are at the age of consent. But that aside, male circumcision and female circumcision are not the same procedure and simply using the same word in the colloquial name does not make them legally equal.

To make the two the same, a male circumcision would have to:
-slice off the entire head of the penis.
-remove the scrotum but leave the testicles.
-stuff the testicles inside the body cavity & sew up what's left.

The entire goal of female circumcision is to remove any part that gives the woman pleasure.

I believe that the writer in the LV Review-Journal presented this wholly false argument in an attempt to try to scare readers into stopping Nevada from ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, via any means necessary or any level of deception.

Btw, that same writer is convinced w/o evidence that voter fraud is rampant in NV and that the state needs to make English the official language.

[tirebiter]

3. Sheldon Adelson owns the paper

Figure it out

[TexasTowelie]

4. Yes, I was aware of that.

The fact that the article is so preposterous is what raised my ire.

[Leith]

5. I Looked Up the Author of the Piece

Victor Joecks is an exec of the thinktank Nevada Policy Research Institute. The RJ may claim that it's a nonpartisan organization, but they come right out and say on their website that they are conservative.

This jerk is a professional propagandist and liar.