Posted on 06/23/2026 3:31:37 PM PDT by fwdude
People who are HIV positive but are otherwise qualified to join the military can once again do so while a legal challenge to the Pentagon’s restrictions on military service moves forward, according to a federal appeals court order issued this week.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified Tuesday that a lower-court order blocking enforcement of the restrictions has been back in effect since May 18, when the full court agreed to rehear the case.
The order applies to applicants who are HIV-positive but asymptomatic and have undetectable viral loads through medication.
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The DOD should ingore this order.
No medically dependent people are admissible in the military except apparently people with HIV and transsexuals.
Bizarro.
Anyone who is on life dependent medication is non deployable. You can’t guarantee the supply chain of such medications and you can’t guarantee access to a doctor either. This is why anyone with such conditions cannot pass medical eligibility for enlistment. HIV should not have special rules.
Do not watch many commercials these days, but one really floored me.
The title of the commercial could have been Undetectable.
The medicine is Truvada Antiretroviral Therapy (ART).
With enough of the medicine, “some” people’s tests will result in HIV being “undetectable.” It does not say “gone” “cured” just.... we cannot detect it.
At the end of the commercial they made it obvious that, with the undetectable result..... “You can start dating again!”
Are the guys that were kicked out for not taking the Covid shot able to join?
Try to join with requiring ADHD meds see how well that goes for you. The left is nuts.
Okay, time for me to email RFK, Jr to send him POZ article saying that HIV infection immediately causes the infected individual to prematurely age 14 years, which means they get cancers, kidney diseases, dementia, plus other diseases. Google AI now says HIV infected only age 5-7 years. I doubt that, and I assume it is a flat out lie to homosexuals.
Couldn’t agree more. HIV indiduals have NO PLACE in our military. This is plain dangerous. Who makes these hare-brained decisions?
What’s so deceptive about this false narrative is that “undetectable” isn’t a durable condition. Merely being off the meds for a few days, or encountering a drug-resistant variant of HIV in a night of anonymous sex still makes you a walking land mine.
Who wants to play Russian roulette, even with a 20-shooter?
An HIV soldier is wounded on the battlefield. His blood gets into an open gash of a medic, who subsequently develops HIV. The DOD gets sued. The Army’s lawyer claims the medic is lying and got HIV from closeted homosexual activity—prove us wrong! His wife, parents and children are heartbroken. He ends his own life. The HIV guy mostly recovers, gets disability for life, and parties on.
Not an outlandish scenario.
HIV is a ticking time bomb. The transmission of it ought to be a federal crime. Carelessly exposing someone to it, by sex or otherwise, should also be criminal. Those trying to donate blood who test positive for HIV should also see a severe criminal sentence. They lied on the questionnaire.
I know more than I want to know about HIV and AIDS from being in a densely-packed city during my young adulthood and watching the whole thing start up during the Reagan Admin and go on from there.
I am a straight woman, but maybe a third of my neighbors in the arts community where I lived were gay—this had been the “let it all hang out” and Studio 54 era; so my age-mates were on the front lines before proper care or these so-called “prep” drugs were developed. I was fortunate to be a teetotaling Christian, in that world but not “of” that world, witnessing what they called the “gay plague” hit dozens of my work colleagues or acquaintances—craftsmen, musicians, artists, writers, chefs, designers, waiters, bartenders, hairdressers, college professors, even healthcare workers.
I was renovating houses. Gay guys are great at that—strong like men but artistic like women, didn't dismiss and counteract my design ideas, didn't make passes while we worked. But I was extremely careful if any worked on my projects, including renovating my own residences and my historic church. I isolated drinking glasses discreetly and washed my hands frequently, sprayed with disinfectant any surfaces they may have handled after they left. Obviously I'm still here. But I avoided contact, even a handshake, unlike their personal partners.
It was awful hearing that one after another get the news that they were HIV and was eventually consumed by the disease. I only kept track of one friend of two decades all the way to the end—a 6-foot man reduced to 75 lbs at death.
This was the monolithic belligerent attitude from homosexuals; there could have been some exceptions that I missed, but for the most part they ALL blamed society: "homophobia," lack of sufficient healthcare, inability to "marry," etc. They are STILL doing this, x10.
So my attitude is "enjoy your AIDS. You asked for it."
I knew several of these guys who were the first to admit it was a disorder, but by the time they recognized it, they were in their 40s and had a relatively stable life they were reluctant to disrupt or lose a job over.
One of the saddest things about the promotion of gay life after Stonewall (1969) is that the loudest mouths also prevented and cancelled any research aimed at finding the causes and possible remedies for gay behavior. Activists as early as the ’70s had the wording of the medical community's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, changed in order to stop calling homosexuality a psychological or mental disorder. So the teens and young adults who got into it back then soon found, like the mafia, they couldn't get out—it was becoming a political movement. And by now, it's an institution.
When I was immersed in that community 40 years ago, and being a friendly Christian person who believes all can be redeemed, I would sometimes find out the life story of many of these folks. And I usually heard about being seduced by an older person—a priest, teacher or coach; or the death of a parent and/or time spent in foster care, wrecking their childhood; or serious neglect or sexual abuse by a parent. Few were just in it for no reason—only to be faced with a tsunami of wicked promotion of the lifestyle when they came of age. Good therapy might have saved a few. But even Republican governors have participated in outlawing anything considered "conversion" therapy.
That said, the more recent "marriage" and adoption of children movements truly make me ill. The truth needs to be told--it's a highly dysfunctional and even dangerous way of life; and its ascendance is very destruction to our society.
They are free to be just as loud in their denunciations, but I only hear crickets from that quarter. So, I must conclude that they at least, in part, agree with the activists.
They have, as Rush put it, bestowed AIDS with its own "civil rights," with everything that implies. The downstream fallout from that is that AIDS patients get to hide it from employers and get "pre-existed" for insurance coverage even before Obamacare. Activists have gotten special exemptions to join and/or remain in the Military despite having a disease of the magnitude that would easily exclude any other disease from enlisting.
The activists have achieved having their cake, and eating it too. They get to call HIV/AIDS a "disability" so that it's covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, but also NOT a disability when it comes to military service or civilian law enforcement, which have their own stringent standards for employment that are not covered by the ADA.
And most medical associations continue to pump out the lie that a major cause of the inexcusable continuation of the AIDS epidemic is "societal homophobia" and fear of seeing a doctor who is not "affirming" enough. What a laugh.
And now, they have bullied the FDA into allowing a group with an astronomically high risk of HIV/AIDS infection to donate blood!!!! That puts ALL of us a risk, as some promiscuous sodomite donates blood within the infection window period of detection blindness and infects other innocents, including children, because they screech that donating blood is their "right" and being banned is "stigmatizing."
Sorry, that group can go straight to hell.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc....
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