Posted on 03/13/2005 3:16:21 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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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.
Ok, then let us appeal to common sense.
Let homosexuals set up a homosexual blood bank for homosexuals only -I won't mind...
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?
Yes, and let's let gay pedophile's be boy scout leaders while we're at it.
I don't donate blood because I have some chronic genetic or other condition that causes elevated bilirubin. I could donate blood, since this is not listed as a preclusion, but I'm smart enough to not do it because nobody knows why my blood is this way.
What ever happend to accepting what's best for others?
Fortunately, only true believers of the hard left will take this seriously.
Congressman Billybob
I couldn't have said it any better. No frickin' way. I'm sick now after reading this. Ya know, I never gave it any thought of ever needing donated blood due to an accident, medical emergency, or whatever. But I sure hope like hell should I ever need some that that stuff is clearly marked "Made in Hetero USA"
Today, however, the scientific knowledge and understanding of HIV and how it spreads has advanced. The FDA policy of banning sexually active gay men for life from donating blood is not backed up by science. There is no scientific, medical or ethical justification for the ban.
Totally untrue. I have worked with a major blood donation "entity" and this entire paragraph is just false. Look up any blood donation site's rules and they are very clear that active gays are at much greater risk of transmitting HIV....the scientific evidence is eeverywhere you care to look and blood centers are proper in refusing their donations.
This joker's way behind the power curve.
The ultimate in bitchy queers wilfully and in cold blood donated scores, probably hundreds of thousands of blood units back in the early days of HIV/AIDS for the single cynical purpose of infecting as wide a cross-section of the population as possible in order to avoid the quarantine and isolation that should have occurred at the outset of the disease one cannot catch but must permit someone to give one -- and which quarantine and isolation it is not to late to instigate, Right Now!
Fine. I want mandatory registration of all homosexuals and tracking of their activities and all their partners.
Violating any terms of registration may result in prison time or physical castration due to the risk presented to the general populace.
Fair trade? If not, then STFU.
"This joker's way behind the power curve."
The joker knows it only too well.
That is exactly why he wrote it.
He is trying to get his buddies and buddettes to get with the program of injecting themselves into our society.
He wants to BE the 'power curve'.
<< The joker knows it only too well.
That is exactly why he wrote it.
He is trying to get his buddies and buddettes to get with the program of injecting themselves into our society.
He wants to BE the 'power curve'. >>
But wouldn't that mean that he and they were but the manifestation of evil?
</rhetorical questions>
The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many, or so it goes.
I have been deferred by the Red Cross from donating blood for close to 2 years now. I have recieved three human bone grafts and they defer you for 12 months after the last graft. I find that restriction reasonable. I wouldn't want to donate blood with a chance of it harming the recipient, despite the chances of that being extremely low.
How selfish it would be to donate blood knowing that one had engaged in high-risk activities for blood-borne illnesses!
Nope can't have that either, then one gay gets AIDS that way, and they will say they all did, and our cause is lost. No blood donating for gays PERIOD!
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