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.
But they want us to get the horrid diseases, don't you see?
Because they know AIDS is, as tragic as it is, a relatively small demographic so they don't hold as much funding clout as they'd like. One way to increase that demographic is to create an epidemic of people who do not participate in these risky behaviors.