Thanks Sqad for your response.
jno:
", is that this has nothing to do with religion in the USA:"
Perhaps not directly, but I think it'd be interesting to do some delving into the history of the practice in the US. I'm willing to bet the practice would not be anything like as prevalent in the United States without that culture's religious influence. As infundibulum's post points out, it's a cultural legacy inherited from Victorian drives for chastity and purity - drives which were unavoidably religious in nature.
But either way, this IS about religion in Germany and in the original link that the OP posted.
"People here are taking umbrage on behalf of babies who, when they grow up, couldn't care less about it."
Perhaps not as adults, no. But as far as I know circumcision is an extremely painful procedure. A friend of mine for various reasons had to do it later than it usually happens and remembers it being extremely painful - which makes sense, considering the number of nerves in the foreskin. But most people who are circumcised will have forgotten this by the time they are old enough to speak. A baby, however, will feel the pain. Just because they don't have the faculties to tell you how much it hurts, it doesn't mean they don't have the right to protection from people who want to mutilate its genitals.
"it's just something people do to their sons, and their sons, when they do grow up and think about it, are so unconcerned about it they do it to their own sons. "
As infundibulum points out, this is not an argument.