This is going way too far!

On Monday, San Francisco resident Lloyd Schofield filed notice that he intends to get a proposal to ban male circumcision onto the city's fall 2012 ballot. The initiative, which would ban the "genital cutting of male minors," was written by a San Diego-based nonprofit group, MGMbill.org (MGM=Male Genital Mutilation), which has tried unsuccessfully to push similar measures through Congress and 14 state legislatures.

Across the country, the question of whether to snip one's newborn son or not has become something of a parental conundrum. Circumcision may prevent infections and the transmission of STDs, but it also may decrease sexual pleasure.

Many parents don't need a law to convince them to spare their sons from the scalpel. The portion of newborn American boys that gets snipped fell from 64 percent in the late '70s to 56 percent in 2006, most likely due to immigration from circumcision-averse regions.

Circumcision is, of course, an important sacrament for many Jews, and some lawyers have already suggested that Schofield's ballot initiative could be an unconstitutional violation of religious freedom.