Citing anti-freedom of religion sentiment, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill over the weekend blocking any and all circumcision bans in the state of California. Assembly bill 768, penned in response to San Francisco's controversial (and, admittedly, somewhat misguided) failed circumcision ban, will bar citizens from impinging upon Jewish and Muslim rituals involving foreskin snipping -- religious acts that some have decried as male genitalia mutilation.

In addition to sparking some of the laziest journalistic puns this side of Carrie Bradshaw, the hasty (and, according to many, anti-Semitic) San Francisco circumcision ban would have made it a misdemeanor for anyone under 18 to perform one -- even for religious reasons. It would have been punishable by a $1,000 fine and/or up to a year in jail.

Fun fact: Circumcision is required for every muslim boy before entering the mosque and performing prayers and other rituals. If the mood should strike, the video below features the circumcision of Muslim boy. (The comments on Youtube are ripe with wackadoo. Naturally.)

[KTVU]