Another of [John] Lyon’s tasks [as superintendent of the Endowment House] was to arrange for a doctor to be present at the Endowment House, where parents brought their children to be circumcised when eight days old. Early Church leaders felt that they were truly reestablishing Israel and so had to restore all known ordinances; the substitute temple was a logical place to perform the covenant ceremony of circumcision (T. Edgar Lyon, Interview, 1975). Lyon worked under the direction of Heber C. Kimball, the chief administrator of the House.

T. Edgar Lyon, Jr., John Lyon, Life of a Pioneer Poet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989), p. 229.

Moro. 8: 8

“Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them; and the law of circumcision is done away in me.”

Also, the leaders of the LDS church have made it clear that it is not considered respectful to mark the body with piercings or tattoos, etc. It seems that if an adult even piercing their own body is considered disrespectful, then how much more so would that principle apply to actually cutting a part of someone elses body all the way off for non medically indicated reasons .

You might also want to refer to this article here:

Read D&C 74.

Some LDS are hesitant to think circumcision is a bad idea because they think while maybe it’s not required, their leaders would warn them not to do it if it was a bad idea. That article clears that up:

“In like manner today, there may be questions on which the doctrinal foundation is clear but on which tradition or custom are so strong that the Brethren are impressed not to take a firmer stand, trusting, as did Church leaders in New Testament times, that if the basic revealed principles are known, the Holy Ghost will eventually lead the adherents to forsake their tradition, or academic popularity, or peer pressure in favor of the word of God.”

Why would anyone want to spoil a human child that God created perfect?

Oh and cutting a child’s (non-retractable) foreskin off because you don’t want to clean up the outside of his p– when he has a stomach bug is just beyond incompetent.

I think anti-Mormon material and anti-circ material are VASTLY different. There is no national medical society worldwide that recommends routine neonatal circumcision because there is no evidence that there is any medical benefit INCLUDING “cleanliness”. In fact, the foreskin serves to PROTECT from infection! And yet risks of even small surgical procedures are well-known. But many parents BELIEVE that they are doing this for their child’s benefit (health or cleanliness). That just ain’t the facts! Anti-mormon sources aren’t even dealing in fact.