Just when you think things couldn’t get any more ridiculous, some greater lunacy and more glaring hypocrisy arises in our country. Formerly heralded as the “sweet land of liberty,” back when populated by sane people, today’s America has become the “land of the loons,” now that it’s populated by imbeciles determined to dismantle our liberties lickety-split.

In the U.S. capital of crazy, better known as San Francisco, a group of activists have succeeded in collecting the more than 7,100 signatures necessary to get a measure on this fall’s ballot to outlaw circumcision. Wow, who’da thunk it? San Francisco, America’s tolerant gay Mecca, is rising up in intolerance to banish the ancient and Jewish practice of circumcision.

According to Marc Stern, the associate general counsel for the American Jewish Committee, “people are shocked” that the anticircumcision activists have gotten so far as to actually get the measure on this fall’s ballot. Mr. Stern’s shock is somewhat surprising to me, however, since I stopped being shocked by San Franciscan foolishness way back in 1979, when the murderer of the city’s mayor and supervisor was found innocent of murder because he had eaten too many Twinkies. By the way, if you ever visit San Francisco make sure you steer clear of all of those Twinkie eaters.

What may ultimately prove most shocking to Mr. Stern is the passage of this anticircumcision measure by San Franciscan voters this coming fall. Don’t forget that these are the same voters who religiously reelect that “wise sage of our age” and former Speaker of Washington’s “nuthouse,” Nancy Pelosi. To me, this alone serves as proof positive that no one is paddling in San Francisco Bay with both of their oars in the water.

Frisco’s anticircumcision activists claim to be taking an heroic stand against “male genital mutilation.” One of them, Jena Troutman, denies that the cause is anti-Semitic, even though she insists that there be no religious exemption for anyone adhering to the Jewish faith. “Why should only some babies be protected,” Mrs. Troutman asks.

I can’t help but wonder how Mrs. Troutman and her fellow anticircumcision activists stand on the issue of abortion. Do they only have a problem with snipping the foreskin of male newborns, but not with stabbing their skulls with scissors and sucking their brains out? Why are they against a woman’s right to choose when it comes to circumcising her child, but not when it comes to aborting her child? And if they’re really all about “protecting the children,” how can they oppose the discarding of a foreskin, while favoring the discarding of a fetus in an abortion clinic dumpster? Go figure!

The man behind the proposed Bay Area ban on circumcision is Matthew Hess. Hess hopes to champion similar legislation all over America until he reaches his “end goal,” which, according to Hess himself, is “to make the cutting of a boy’s foreskin a federal crime.” That Hess is a little obsessed with this topic may be gleaned from the fact that he has turned it into his life’s ambition, not to mention the fact that he spends the rest of his time writing a comic book entitled “Foreskin Man.”

It’s really unfortunate that Hess hasn’t confined himself to his comic. His cause belongs there, but not in the real world, where serious consequences can result from such buffoonery. Still, what better place for Hess to hatch his cracked egg that in the City by the Bay—46.7 square miles of lunacy surrounded by reality.

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