“May The Foreskin Be With You”

The San Francisco ballot measure that would ban male genital mutilation moves forward. It seems dumb to me that there isn't a religious exception. Practically and constitutionally, you can protect the religious right of Muslims and Jews to mutilate their infant children, while reducing the number of mutilated infants overall. I know it doesn't make total sense, but religious practices, even when inflicting pain on the helpless, do seem to me to fall within constitutional protection – and rightly so.