[Recovering_Democrat]

Let's see....anyone want to get a blood transfusion from a blood bank that takes blood from gay men? Anyone?? (crickets chirping)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Sounds like the pedophile who couldn't understand why they turned him down for that job in the day-care center.

[gondramB]

"Let's see....anyone want to get a blood transfusion from a blood bank that takes blood from gay men? Anyone??"

That's not the right standard and would lead to all kinds of discrimination.

The proper justification, I think, is that gay men have the highest HIV rate, after intravenous drug addicts(who also should not donate.)

[andyk]

I guess he's never been to a bloodbank. That question is nothing new...

[CalvaryJohn]

Well oiled machine- Bleccchhh!

[Rebelbase]

"Will: I was in shock more than anything. I just couldn't believe it."

believe it, Will. Your filthy anus is a recepticle for bugs that don't belong in the human gut. No one wants what you have.

[caisson71]

Sorta like taking blood from a chicken these days.

[raybbr]

Reported by Craig Stevens

Craig Stevens co-anchors 7NEWS at 5, 6, 10, and 11pm weeknights. He was promoted in July 2001, after anchoring the 5:30pm and 6:30pm newscasts. Craig left us for a brief stint in 1997 to work as an anchor/reporter at our Boston sister-station, NBC affiliate WHDH-TV. He returned to South Florida in 1999.

Craig lives in Miami with his black lab "Jack."

[Argus]

Liberals needing transfusions should be allowed to specify that they want only GLBT-friendly blood, and not that icky discriminatory hepatitis- and Aids-free stuff.

[tongue-tied]

Will: I can't ssee WHY they disscriminate againsst ME....I'm a CLEAN girl dammit! Boo hoooo.....Oh they're ssuch b*****ss!! Oh crap, now I caught a nail!! Ssteve, honey? Bring me a nail file pleasse, Babe.

More domestic strife, this time from, well...left field. Oh, the humanity!

[yoe]

And with that, Will was told it's perfectly acceptable to be an openly gay man, just not a gay blood donor.

Will: I was turned down because I was gay. I was told that was why I could not donate blood.

Where on earth has this man been - would he accept blood from a gay doner?

[pipecorp]

Will wants to donate, not because he wants to help people, but to satisfy his own ego. If he wanted to help society, he would be out promoting something useful, like celibacy for pickle-sniffers.

[Michael.SF.]

Will and his partner are like a well-oiled machine when...

OK, that was enough for me.

[so_real]

Will: They gave me a questionnaire to fill out and one of the questions was have you ever had sex with a man since 1977. Of course I answered yes.

Will is an activistic liar. A question worded as such would rule out the majority of women.

Will: It's outdated. I really feel the FDA needs to revisit this law and join us in the new millennium.

Will fails to provide his credentials such that we, or the FDA, should even consider his position. More importantly, why would the CDC consider his position?

Will: A high population of homosexuals wants to donate blood are safe and monogamous.

Was their a nation-wide poll of homosexual-blood-donating-wanna-be's? Where are the statistics to back up this assertion? Did the respondents submit a blood sample for analysis?

[Experiment 6-2-6]

No, they were turned down because he had sex with a man. You can be gay AND donate blood. However, there are standards and being celibate is the only standard.

I was in Panama. There are "safe" zones in Panama. However, if you go into the jungle, no donations FOR A FULL YEAR.

Now, it didn't matter that I flew, by helicopter, onto one little mountainside for a half hour to look at wreckage. I got rejected.

[Monkey King]

Not one word in this "report" about the dangers of AIDS, HIV, or the prevalence of gay men to have either. Or any mention of the transmission vector: blood. Just a mention of an "AIDS scare."

You freepers remember that, don't you? The "AIDS scare" of the 80's? Kind of like the "tampered Tylenol scare" of that decade, or the "Swine flu scare" of the 70's? Just a lot of hype, right? Nothing really to worry about. Gay people are just as healthy as you or I, right?

Right?

[Ohioan from Florida]

I read something like this several years ago, right after 9/11, almost verbatim from the previous one IIRC. Looks like the propaganda hasn't changed one bit. Trying to change common sense protocols with a bunch of whining and complaining. I hope it doesn't work. I half expect Mother Sheehan to come along protesting about how Bush is fighting the wrong war.

[hosepipe]

[ Gay Men Donate Blood (Gay Man Upset Blood Bank Won't Take His Blood) ]

Cool.. take the blood.. label it as from a gay... give it only to a gay if it knows who it came from..

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Donating blood is not a right to be demanded. Lots of people can't donate.

[whershey]

I sure don't want his blood.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Queers corrupt anything they touch!
They changed a good word gay into something meaning vile and abnormal.
They try to corrupt our children.
They try to corrupt marriage.

Now they want to corrupt the blood supply!