> casual bigotry is now considered acceptable

It's not bigoted to be against mutilating boys. Don't hide behind religion to justify barbaric practices. Most Americans don't mutilate because of religious reasons.

Somehow we all agree that female mutilation is horrible, but when it comes to boys it's controversial.

Is it ok to have your 12 year old's teeth pulled? Is it ok to get your toddler's fremulum removed? I can argue that the very idea that the body should remain intact is itself steeped in religiosity. The belief that the body we start with, we should end with, is tied to the idea of Resurrection and the Last Judgment.

> Somehow we all agree that female mutilation is horrible, but when it comes to boys it's controversial

FGM is something that affects their body's function. What is the function of the male foreskin? What malfunction arises after circumcision?

It’s bigoted to support cutting some babies but not other babies.

Tell me I can cut off the tip of my daughter’s ear. Tell me anyone who opposes me is a bigot. Tell me I don’t need her permission, and I don’t need to wait to discuss it with her.

Or, more probable: find some little gotcha in my analogy so that you don’t have to confront it.

Attacking religious belief should not be considered within "bigotry", outside of situations like ethnically Jewish people (and their religious beliefs and practices should not enjoy special protection, but their actual ethnicity should).