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Circumcision ban a step closer to the ballot
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Apr 27, 2011 11:53am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Heather Knight |
| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 09:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Will a circumcision ban in San Francisco make, um, the final cut and appear before voters this November?
Proponents of the ban took 12,265 signatures to the Department of Elections today and should learn within a month whether 7,168 of them indeed came from registered city voters. If so, the city will have another one of its classic only-in-San Francisco measures to debate.
Wearing pins reading "May the foreskin be with you," the backers of the ban gathered at City Hall to turn in their signatures. Then they told reporters more than anybody ever wanted to know about the increasingly controversial procedure.
Jonathon Conte, a 29-year-old resident of the Alamo Square neighborhood, said he personally gathered 300 signatures and wasn't embarrassed to talk to strangers about his foreskin or the lack thereof.
"We have a lot of people in the city who believe boys deserve the same protection as girls," said Conte, who said he's angry that his parents had him circumcised as an infant. |
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