[Clint N. Suhks]

WTF? OMG!

[taxesareforever]

Being gay and having safe homosexual sex does not put you at any more risk of HIV than being straight and having safe heterosexual sex.

Get off your soapbox and enter the reality world. Heterosexuals DO NOT want blood from homosexuals. I say again, DO NOT want blood from homosexuals. You may start your own blood bank but we don't want the heterosexual blood banks contamintated.

[billorites]

Yeah, this has been all over the news here in NH.

By definition, college students are sophomoric and advocate silly things.

That being said, I'm all in favor of gays donating blood.

So long as it's earmarked for receipt by other homosexuals.

[snarks_when_bored]

"Shhhhhhhhhh...the emperor's not naked...he's just not wearing any clothes."

[Judith Anne]

Here's the red flag:

Even though this issue does affect gay people, it is an issue of fundamental civil rights and sensible health policies.

I can't believe civil rights of homosexual men have ANYTHING to do with the right of a patient to expect HIV free blood. Anyone who argues this is arguing for murder.

[whereasandsoforth]

What "increasing threat" of a blood shortage? I haven't heard about a pending blood shortage. This statement would be one of those types of statements pulled out of the air to add weight to a liberal argument would it?

The world will go on without the "gay" man's blood, whether it's in or out of their bodies.

Besides, as we've learned from the social security debate, why change a "good thing" we know works? Isn't AIDS one of the items listed on the Carter Legacy? I don't want to fart around with Jimma's Legacy anymore than FDR's.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I damn sure don't want any of their blood, or want it for My Kids or Grandkids. Better to die fast, for lack of a transfusion, than to rot away slowly, afraid to even touch the Folks You love. If any of Mine ever got a contaminated transfusion, I don't reckon I could rest, until I had eliminated as many possible sources, as is possible!
This could mean that I am not a good Christian, but, I believe that some parts of vengeance are Mine! If I have to go to Hell, to keep My Kids and Grandkids out of it, sounds like a deal, to Me!

[Alouette]

If the FDA truly wanted the safest blood supply possible, it would require all donors to be asked about safe sex practices.

WTF??? Helloooo! They do that already!

Maybe they should allow people who have visited the UK over the past 10 years to donate blood. Currently people who have been to the UK are not allowed to donate because they might have been exposed to Mad Cow disease.

[Jeff Chandler]

Being gay and having safe homosexual sex does not put you at any more risk of HIV than being straight and having safe heterosexual sex.

Ridiculous! Totally ignores the obvious difference in particular practices and the different kind of body tissue involved. In the interest of good taste, I will not elaborate.

[Spruce]

Let's endanger everyone so we don't offend anyone. Sheesh.

[Bennett46]

I read the article starting this thread.

I finish reading the article starting this thread.

I scroll up, thinking this must be from the Onion.

No, not from the Onion.

I click on the link, thinking this HAS to be written with 'tongue in cheek'.

AWWWW, I just went and posted an insensitive thought.

But I was wrong about the Onion part.

I guess I can't always be 'correct'.

[drt1]

Ypur tyicl self absorbed scientificaly flawed demand from a group that seeks to force it's lifestyle into the Mainstream at any cost. So far, thanks to weak Courts and Politicians, they appear to be succeeding. I meean Jeeez, it's now PC to strut this non-sense

[kingu]

Gee, only 3 more units of tainted blood would slip through? Wow, I'm just waiting to live with those odds...

Sorry, no go. It's not a civil rights issue, it is a issue of health safety. The experts predict if gay men are permitted to donate blood, the blood supply itself will face more risk.

One thing the author fails to mention is that a number of gay men already donate blood which some suspect is why there are tainted units out there to begin with.

As for the numbers of additional donors; yeah right. The commerical banks want to open it up because too many homeless folks get paid for their blood but the separate questionaire deep sixes the blood after they leave. Remove the gay sex question from destroying the unit, and you'll have hundreds more cases of people being infected by blood born diseases. At least the bums are doing us a service by marking 'yes' on that question.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

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[em2vn]

I am not allowed to give blood because I have had cancer. I find such a decision to simply make sense. Why take a chance with other peoples lives?
I think the civil right involved in keeping homosexuals from giving blood is the right to be protected from the prime carriers of a horrid disease.

[twas]

There is no scientific, medical or ethical justification for the ban.

Ok, then let us appeal to common sense.

[DBeers]

Let homosexuals set up a homosexual blood bank for homosexuals only -I won't mind...

[Windsong]

I recall a Star Trek: TNG episode that dealt with this issue. A Romulan was on board that needed a rare blood donor, and Worf was the only one on board who could give it to him, but the Romulan looked at it as if his blood would be poisonous to him (which it wasn't). If memory serves, anyways. I think this was around 94, however. What we want someone who had leprosy o give blood, or syphillus, or the black plague?

[TheDon]

Yes, and let's let gay pedophile's be boy scout leaders while we're at it.

[Congressman Billybob]

So this homosexual wants people who need blood transfusions to die, in order to promote his homosexual agenda? It would not be the first time, or the last time, that political correctness led directly to the deaths of innocent people. While we are on the subject, how many raped and killed young boys are worth the "value" of having adult homosexuals as Scout leaders.

Fortunately, only true believers of the hard left will take this seriously.

Congressman Billybob

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