Alan Cumming: Difference between revisions
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He is also a patron of [[NORM-UK]], an English-registered charity concerned with [[foreskin]] health and matters related to [[circumcision]]; he has condemned the practice of [[ | He is also a patron of [[NORM-UK]], an English-registered charity concerned with [[foreskin]] health and matters related to [[circumcision]]; he has condemned the practice of non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]], particularly in the United States where it is common.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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|Text=As well as campaigning for LGBTQ+ equality and [[ ]] charities, Cumming is outspoken against male circumcision. | |Text=As well as campaigning for LGBTQ+ equality and [[ ]] charities, Cumming is outspoken against male circumcision. | ||
<q>I never thought anything about my foreskin,</q> he says, <q>and then I came to America and I was having sex and people would just be gasping because they’d never seen a foreskin before. I was made to feel weird and freakish because I had an intact body.</q> | <q>I never thought anything about my [[foreskin]],</q> he says, <q>and then I came to America and I was having sex and people would just be gasping because they’d never seen a foreskin before. I was made to feel weird and freakish because I had an [[intact]] body.</q> | ||
<q>It’s genital mutilation. And I think people say: <q>Oh, that’s hysterical.</q> But we do it to girls and it’s called genital mutilation.</q> As for the religious grounds for circumcision, he believes these are “ridiculous”: <q>We choose to keep doing some things and we just let the weirdest things go.</q> | <q>It’s genital mutilation. And I think people say: <q>Oh, that’s hysterical.</q> But we do it to girls and it’s called genital mutilation.</q> As for the religious grounds for circumcision, he believes these are “ridiculous”: <q>We choose to keep doing some things and we just let the weirdest things go.</q> | ||