This thread is so gay!
Posted on 03/04/2010 12:02:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
BOSTON -- Gay men should be allowed to donate blood and laws banning them from doing so are discriminatory and outdated, according to Sen. John Kerry and several of his Senate colleagues.
"Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban,” Kerry said. “A law that was once considered medically justified is today simply outdated and needs to end."
Kerry was one of 16 U.S. Senators who in a letter on Thursday asked the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban on gay men donating blood. The ban was put in place in 1983, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis and before modern screening and advanced testing methods for HIV were developed.
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Whatever happened to “if it saves one life it’ll be worth it...”?
You first, Lurch.
“Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban,” Kerry said.
You mean other than AIDS?
It’s the cookies at the blood bank that his constituents are crying about not getting. He’s a man of principle you know..
God spare us from this pompous, arrogant, self-entitled and self-appointed and self-righteous, thin-skinned, humorless idiot! people of Massachusetts you know what to do: he’s up for election this year isn’t he?
The concern there is mad cow disease , or Jacob-Creuzfeld Syndrome, I believe.
Gay men bake their own cookies.
Well, you may have to accept a RINO but who is going to listen to conservatives more? A RINO or a Kerry?
Excellent point albie. Would love to watch John sKerry hymm and haw after being asked about this on T.V.
I have even a better idea. Let’s have homosexuals and lesbians donate their blood and let only homosexuals and lesbians receive transfusions from such blood.
Wow, this would create one hell of a market for “hetero-sexual blood”. Wonder what the packaging would say? Bug free blood? Breeders blend?
With all the years Kerry spent in Vietnam (sarc), I’m sure her remembers well the emergency field medical use of direct transfusions. The military does... and that’s why they aren’t partial to this policy.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Sure, what could go wrong? /sarc
I have a suggestion. Let’s have a special up or down vote on this. Each member of congress will be offered a transfusion of a pint of blood from a homosexual male. If a majority in both houses accept the transfusions, the POTUS can sign it into law by also receiving a pint.
Honestly, you can’t make this sh*t up! Reality is more insane than fiction today.
60 percent of the reported STDs in this country come from homosexuals even though they might be two to four percent of the population.
For a while the rule was anyone who had spent 6 months or more in Europe since Jan. 1, 1980, was barred from giving blood, which excluded a lot of military people and their families who would otherwise be eligible, but they finally changed that to 5 years.
You know... politics... if you make the most of it, you work hard, you use some common sense, and you make an effort to be patriotic, you can do well. If you don’t... you get stuck as the ski-bum-boy-toy of a gin-soaked ketchup dowager.
How about we just label the blood Gay Bathhouse Fan or Straight Amish Housewife and see which one does better on the market?
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