Causes I endorse/care about.

[conuly]

1. Anti-infant-circumcision. This is *routine* circumcision, mind. If there's an actual medical reason behind it, I support it. I also will not comment if people do this for religious reasons, provided that this is actually part of their religion.

2. Breastfeeding. And I'm never having kids, so this one's a bit weird.

3. Linguistic rights. Primarily, the right to not be told "the way you speak is wrong". I understand the various reasons behind a need for a standard dialect, but please. Just say "this way is more appropriate for this situation". Forget that right and wrong nonsense. (Unless somebody is actually wrong. It does happen)

4. Anti-Bush. BUSH SUCKS.

5. Pro-reproductive rights.

6. Pro-equality-of-all-sorts (racial, sexual, sexualorientational, whatever, equal is good)

7. Anti-death-penalty. Especially when it's being called upon by people who claim to be "pro-life". Liars.

8. Pro-helping-people-out. Yeah, if you're so pro-life, you should want to support this life once it's born as well. Abortion rates *rose* during Bush's term.

9. Anti-war. I don't like killing people.

10. Pro-Dudley-Fic. *coughs*

11. Autistic Advocacy. Technically, this goes under number 6, but I thought I'd give it a special mention. *special mention*

Hm.... That may be it. Icky number, 11, but it'll do.

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"I also will not comment if people do this [infant circumcision] for religious reasons, provided that this is actually part of their religion."

I will, and if I get flamed out the wazoo for it, well, it won't be the first time. If someone said "I cut off part of my newborn child's body because God told me to", it would be reasonable to assume that that person was insane. It's every bit as insane, if not more so, to say "I cut off part of my newborn child's body because God supposedly told some mythical guy to do it thousands of years ago."

If people want to cut off parts of their own bodies because God told them to, or for any other reason, that's their choice - I may think it's a stupid choice, but it's really none of my business. The mutilation of the genitalia of tiny babies who can't consent or refuse is an entirely different matter.

I realize that this barbaric practice is an honored tradition among certain sects, and they're not going to stop doing it just because I think it is barbaric, disgusting, and just plain evil. I'm not going to pretend I don't think that, though, or that I have any respect for a "religious tradition" that claims God requires blood sacrifices of infant foreskins.

Andrea Yates murdered her five children because she apparently sincerely believed it was the only way to save them from eternal damnation. I don't notice people being reluctant to denounce her actions just because they were motivated by "religious reasons".

[ahsirakh.livejournal.com]

The mutilation of the genitalia of tiny babies who can't consent or refuse is an entirely different matter.

Incidentally, isn't that an argument of those who are against abortion? How fascinating...

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

If you consider a non-viable embryo to be a "baby", I suppose it is. I don't, and there isn't any Biblical support for that notion either.