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Protesters back Milford teen who was rejected as blood donor
The New Haven Register ^ | 12/05/2004 | Brian McCready and Cara Baruzzi, Register Staff

Posted on 12/06/2004 9:56:49 AM PST by raybbr

MILFORD — Devlin Mannle, 18, simply wanted to donate blood as part of Jonathan Law High School’s holiday blood drive last week.

The American Red Cross worker began asking Mannle a series of questions.

Had he been exposed to hepatitis? Malaria? Had he recently visited certain countries in Africa? Is he an intravenous drug user?

Mannle’s answer to each query was "No."

Then the worker asked another question.

"Have you had sex with a man?"

"Yes," Mannle answered.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aids; blood; donate; gays; grid; health; hiv; homosexualagenda; pervert; redcross
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To: EdReform
I was actually commenting more on ...
Superintendent of Schools Gregory A. Firn said he asked the Red Cross Friday to investigate whether a staff member inadvertently discriminated against Mannle. "We don’t believe in discriminating against any individual," Firn said.
The superintendent of schools is more worried about "offending" someone that contaminating the damned blood supply! Insane.
81 posted on 12/06/2004 4:06:42 PM PST by oh8eleven
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To: JimRed
Does anyone else recall a talk radio program sometime in the early 80's during which a homosexual stated that this was exactly what they planned to do? I can't remember whose program it was.

I don't recall, but I think it's obvious that they mean the heterosexual population some kind of harm. How else can you interpet it? The reality is that sexually active homosexuals are riddled with diseases of all kinds, and they know themselves to be at extremely high risk for those diseases and HIV.

82 posted on 12/06/2004 4:28:14 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: All
Statistically, more heterosexual women in Connecticut have AIDS than do gay men, he said.

Would it be good journalistic practice to catch these kinds of misleading statements? After all, after Zell Miller's electrifying convention speech, all the AP and other organizations would focus on is the "fact" that Dick Cheney had supported cutting a few weapons programs in the past. They weren't quoting someone else, they added that little "fact check" themselves. Surely someone could have done the same with "Ms." Lang.

According to The Connecticut Department of Health, there were 13844 reported cases of AIDS through June 2004. 22% of them were men who sleep with men. Yet these make up no more than 2.8% of the population (to be generous). 24% were heterosexual women. Yet these make up 51.6% of the population of Connecticut.

83 posted on 12/06/2004 5:30:21 PM PST by DameAutour ("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.")
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To: raybbr
I go to Costa Rica every year which bars me from donating blood regardless of the fact that I may never see a mosquito and the malaria rate down there is extremely low.

I don't want a tranfusion from a gay guy. I think the risks of getting AIDS from that are much higher and more serious than getting malaria from a tourist.

84 posted on 12/06/2004 5:34:30 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: dangus
You may be on to something. Wasn't the movie "Stepford Wives" set in Connecticut?

That's why they got taken to "Stepford".

85 posted on 12/06/2004 5:37:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: EdReform

That is just sick.

I was rejected from giving blood several years ago because I was not sure I wasn't pregnant. It turned out I wasn't & I returned to donate with no problems.


86 posted on 12/06/2004 5:43:44 PM PST by Feiny (Scream if you love silence.)
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To: exnavychick
The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated. The FDA maintains that homosexual sex is an "at risk" activity for the spread of HIV and the need to protect the blood supply takes priority over the feelings of gay men.

I don't give a rat's a$$ about a homosexual man's 'feelings'! I want the blood supply to be disease free! That is one of the major reasons for the Red Cross.

Can you imagine what one of these men would do if they had to receive blood because of an accident, and received AIDS tainted blood? Do you think he'd be 'understanding' because the Red Cross had been sensitive to honosexuals? HELL NO! He'd sue their a$$es off!

87 posted on 12/06/2004 6:25:33 PM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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To: feinswinesuksass

I get rejected all of the time because of my weight (I'm too small). I gather that is more for my own protection, I suppose.


88 posted on 12/06/2004 6:57:21 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: SuziQ

Can you imagine what one of these men would do if they had to receive blood because of an accident, and received AIDS tainted blood? Do you think he'd be 'understanding' because the Red Cross had been sensitive to honosexuals? HELL NO! He'd sue their a$$es off!

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And probably try to claim that they did it deliberately because he was gay.


89 posted on 12/06/2004 6:58:40 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: exnavychick

Sure...brag about how skinny you are....go eat a cookie.
***grin***


90 posted on 12/06/2004 7:16:14 PM PST by Feiny (Scream if you love silence.)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Don't worry...I'm preggers right now, and I'm sure to look like a good-sized zepplin shortly, lol! I always end up eating more than my fair share of cookies when I'm pg...so what kind ya got? LOL

:)


91 posted on 12/06/2004 7:21:49 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: wrathof59
There are many, many hemophiliacs who were given HIV tainted blood by accident.

I'm sure they would have been very happy to have the restriction in place years ago.

This little snot should go and talk to these HIV infected people and see what they think.
92 posted on 12/06/2004 7:27:26 PM PST by It's me
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To: exnavychick

Sorry, no cookies...but I do have a few homemade truffles.


93 posted on 12/06/2004 7:31:16 PM PST by Feiny (Scream if you love silence.)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Hmmmmm....yummy!!! I'm gonna have to steal my MIL's million dollar fudge recipe-and I don't even like chocolate!

Maybe some peanut brittle...some hot cocoa? Ack, I am losing it! Look what you started! LOL I have to get these cravings under control.

I'll quit hijacking this thread now, lol.


94 posted on 12/06/2004 7:36:12 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: muawiyah

Or wasn't that Stamford Wives? :^D


95 posted on 12/06/2004 8:11:09 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Could be, eh?!


96 posted on 12/06/2004 8:14:22 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Currently, there is an average 11-day window between the time a person is infected with HIV and the time it is detected by nucleic acid testing. That is why, according to the Red Cross, that blood donors engaged in high-risk activity, such as homosexual sex and intravenous drug use, are deferred from donating blood.

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Mannle said Friday he wasn’t angry when he was told he could not donate blood. "I was in shock," he said. After thinking about how he was treated, he became incensed. "They never asked if I had unprotected sex," he said.

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Leif Mitchell of Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research said Mannle’s complaint really has nothing to do with the Red Cross because the FDA requires it to ask the questions. Instead of inquiring about gay sex, screeners should ask donors if they’ve had unprotected sex, Mitchell said.

That would be as stupid as saying a junkie could give blood as long as he said he used clean needles! And since this deal was so important to Mannle (how do you pronounce that?) that he outed himself, what's to say he wouldn't have just lied about having unprotected sex? After all, nowhere in this article does Mannle say whether or not he has had unprotected sex!

Shawn Lang, a member of the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition and co-chairman of the state’s AIDS policy group, [said] more heterosexual women in Connecticut have AIDS than do gay men, he said.

I don't believe this for a second. There's some statistical gymnastics involved in that quote, or else it would have front page news long ago! When AIDS first became known as "a gay disease," the queer radicals promoted the idea that eventually, AIDS would ravage the heterosexual majority. We're still waiting.

What a self-centered jackass.

My sentiments exactly. The Gay-stapo wants you to believe that letting the practitioners of a dangerous, unnatural sex act give blood for the sole purpose of letting them feel good about themselves is more important than protecting the blood supply from the uncurable disease that's been killing them for two decades. How shameful!

97 posted on 12/06/2004 11:52:10 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Liberals love minorities...as long as they stay in their place. Ask Ted Rall. Ask Harry Reid.)
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To: L.N. Smithee
Actually, the Gaystapo want straight people to contract HIV so that it is perceived as a disease that "is not just for gays and junkies." I think most of them would be delighted if HIV were not detectable in blood so they could spread it to as many straight people as possible.

And who the Hell gave Mannle the right to decide whether or not his practices meet the standard of "safe" or "protected" sex. [David Broudnoy, Boston radio talk show host and HIV sufferer, avers that he has never had "unsafe sex". Jeez, thanks for the blood donation, Dave.] The safest sex is that within a monogamous, exclusive relationship, an extremely rare arrangement for two gay men.

98 posted on 12/07/2004 5:39:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: exnavychick
I get rejected all of the time because of my weight (I'm too small)

*Whining* SHUT UUUUP! ;o)

99 posted on 12/07/2004 6:09:02 AM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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To: exnavychick
And probably try to claim that they did it deliberately because he was gay.

Yep, it's all about them.

100 posted on 12/07/2004 6:09:36 AM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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