From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 01:05:19 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote,
> >Actually, it is only recently that infibulation of girls was
> >explicity made illegal. I love the strained language of the law:
> >"...infibulates...the labia minora...of any person under 18..."
> >Apparently, Western Judeo-Christian forms of ritual child abuse
> >are OK, it's only the Muslim forms that qualify as felonies, making
> >this one of the few laws--despite its careful language--that is
> >both sexist and racist at the same time
>
> I'll drink to that. Now let's move on to how Selective Service constitutes
> violence against men.
While compelling a person to provide goods or services is anathema to
me, so are people who do not hold the credo that 'a person who feels
that there is nothing worth dying for, has nothing worth living for.'
Mike Lorrey
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