[fwdude]

The insanity continues. PC will be the death of us all.

[GraceG]

So we should also open up the blood donations for people who have been to the UK, Africa and all sorts of areas....???

How about people who have had blood borne parasites, and any and all STDs even if they are in a management phase of treatment or have an incurable disease....

[Cowboy Bob]

Why is it so important that queers give blood? Especially when they are carriers of AIDS.

[CitizenUSA]

Yep. It’s insanity. There’s a very, VERY good reason why the ban was put into place in the first place. As I recall, the AIDS virus could be transmitted before it could be detected by blood tests. In other words, there was no way to ensure donated blood was free of the virus. At the time, I recall people who needed transfusions were getting the AIDS virus from donated blood.

Now, if they can prove donated blood is 100% safe (which I very highly doubt), then maybe the ban could be reasonably lifted. If not, then it needs to stay in place. These jerks who signed the petition should be the FIRST to receive donated blood from active homosexuals. Me, personally? I don’t want contaminated blood so some stinking politician can feel satisfied with themselves (for being all tolerant and diverse).

[Wurlitzer]

The fudge packer’s disease, AIDS, is back on the rise and commie liberals want these disease maggots to pollute our blood supply.

Just more of the war the government is wagging on the average citizen.

[Venturer]

My Brother was a cured cancer patient, and he couldn’t give blood either.

There is no case on record of cancer being transmitted by blood donation to my knowledge. Yet there is plenty of proof HIV can be given.

[detective]

I would be in favor of this if all the blood donated by homosexuals was identified and targeted only for the use of Congressman, Senators, their staffs and White House personnel. Those people should be required to use blood donated by homosexuals. No other donated blood should ever be available to them.

Other people could use blood donated by homosexuals if they chose to.

[tgusa]

Oh, just FABulous.

[Mike Darancette]

Time to set some of my blood aside.

[ScottinVA]

Enzi, huh?

He must be getting some pressure from either a family member or someone who has some “skeleton-in-a-closet” info on him.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

For some reason, I'm reminded of this:

Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It is the fudgepackers who are the bullies, and they don't care how many people die as a result of pretending that gay is the new normal.

Nation's blood supply facing new danger -- stiff political pressure to change rules regarding homosexual blood donors

Canadian health authorities admit gay sex dangerous, blood-donors must be abstinent 5 years

[day10]

Given the topic, and I’m not trying to minimize how ludicrous this is in any way, I can’t help but get a chuckle our of the writer’s name.

[Servant of the Cross]

[N. Theknow]

Eighty-two lawmakers in the House and Senate signed on to the letter, including Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Enzi was the only Republican to sign the letter.

If any of them need a transfusion, they should have to only be given blood donated by homosexuals.

But, in the usual scope of all things related to lawmakers, they will exempt themselves from having to abide by the laws they pass.

[pallis]

Let’s be scientific about it first. The congress critters can be the subjects of a double blind test, giving one group the blood of queers once a week for twelve months, and the other group the blood of drug addicts for another twelve months, not telling either group which blood they are getting, and see who feels best when the experiment is over. Swapping of bodily fluids between the to two test samples will have to be forbidden.

[Sans-Culotte]

What’s to keep queers from acting butch and simply not saying they’re queer and donating anyway?

[lavaroise]

Let me guess... another communist block demand on the West.

[molson209]

plus the new Visas to same sex couples ,to bring a whole load of new/old diseases

[I want the USA back]

Here’s how the liberal ‘mind’ works.

“Why should only gay men and intravenous drug shooters die of aids? Let’s let all the normal people die of aids too!”

Wanna bet that congress has its OWN, clean supply of blood, uncontaminated by hiv?

[Jim Scott]

I suspect the Obama administration wants to allow homosexual men to give blood - putting millions of Americans at risk - and this letter is their cover ("congress asked us to do this") That Enzi signed it should signal the end of his senate career.