[Faith Presses On]

The left is going to try to be a battering ram on this issue:

"Canada's Shortened Ban On Gay Blood Donors Still Fails LGBTQ," Ida Mahmoudi, The Huffington Post Canada

"Canada, It’s Time We Eliminated The Blood Ban," Zac Thomson, The Huffington Post

"Time to end these blood bans: U.S. policy on gay and bi male blood donations is a failure—and Canada is repeating the same mistakes," Nico Lang, Salon

[HarleyLady27]

IN the 1980s, Bill Clinton's political cronies were selling HIV-and Hepatitis C-laced prison inmate blood to the world blood market. Unscreened prisoners would sell their blood for $7 (in prison script) per plasma unit to politically connected blood brokers who would then put it up for same on the world blood market for $50 per plasma unit. The company that brokered the blood was Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) Later in 1998, whistle-blower Mike Galster, under the pseudonym Michael Sullivan, wrote the novel BLOOD TRAIL, based on the scandal. "Although fiction, BLOOD TRAIL evolved from Sullivan's meditations on the true, tragic and ongoing story of a blood contamination that infected as many as 80,000 people in Canada," in inside flap read. "Thousands have died, many more have death sentences, and still more will suffer for life" War on Women pages 261-262

[mkjessup]

I'll be more than happy to see homosexual men donating blood as long as ANY blood transfusions that government officials need are mandated to be obtained from the pool of 'gay' blood they want to create.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I would suggest anyone that is going to need a medical procedure to make sure you have your own blood available!!!

[GraceG]

Cry me a F___ING river....

IV druggies cannot donate blood either and for the same G_Dmned good reasons!

[A_Former_Democrat]

It’s 2016 .

And there’s STILL no cure or vaccine for HIV

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It’s 2016. We still AIDS and STDs transmittable through blood of a high risk segment of the population....regardless if that hurts one’s feelings or not.

[Bryanw92]

Let them donate. Label it GAY BLOOD. Give it to Democrats. Problem solved.

[DiogenesLamp]

It’s 2016. And gay men still can’t donate blood

Yes! Thank God we haven't completely lost our flipping minds. You have got to be some kind of brain dead stupid to want to allow blood from the AID, Herpes, Chlamydiae, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis, and Syphilis infected perverts.

[rbg81]

Right now, there are less than 30,000 cases of HIV in Australia. Sounds low? That’s because it is — among the lowest rate in the world, in fact.

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If even ONE person gets HIV from a blood transfusion, that is too much—especially if its preventable. And we all know it will be many more than one if the policy changes.

What do we tell those unlucky people? Do we thank them for their sacrifice because it makes Gay people feel better?

[TBall]

I’m concerned about the the drug addicts right to donate blood. Imagine being turned down over a few track marks on the arm. It is an outrage that these people are so discriminated against that they can’t even give blood.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It’s 2016. And gay men still can’t donate blood

They're not "gay men" they're faggots. And it's not blood...it's sewage.

Can you say "blood-borne pathogens"?

[originalbuckeye]

And anyone who lived in or visited Britain in the 80’s-90’s isn’t allowed to give either. Mad Cow disease, you know.

[Delta 21]

Mad cow would have killed me over 10 years ago IF I had it, but I will never be able to donate because I ‘might” have it.

SCREW “EM. Its all about $$$$$$

[Enchante]

This pressure to have gays give blood is outrageous, disgusting, disgraceful..... no one of sound mind would want to receive such blood in transfusions, the risks are obviously higher. Therefore, no one should be forced to risk receiving such blood when they might be in a car accident, have surgeries, have any of a range of blood and medical conditions, etc.

As a cancer survivor who had to receive many units of blood transfusions, and knowing many others who have been in similar predicaments, it is quite personal to me to loathe people who want to increase the risks in the blood supply, just to serve some socio-political cause.

[Rastus]

Right now, there are less than 30,000 cases of HIV in Australia. Sounds low? That’s because it is — among the lowest rate in the world, in fact.

Sounds low? Sounds like the ban's working.

[Personal Responsibility]

“These restrictions sprung up during the AIDS panic in an era of widespread homophobia, where pastors and pundits publicly proclaimed that HIV was a divine plague “

The fact that AIDS was a death sentence and ran rampant through the gay community had nothing to do with it though, right? Sheesh...does he remember the AIDS epidemic in the 80s? I do.

[AFreeBird]

Hello!! AIDS/HIV!!

[Crucial]

I didn’t know giving blood was a fundamental right desired among freedom lovers everywhere.

[Trillian]

If a person is fighting to donate blood when they engage in homosexual behavior.. they are evil. Only someone evil would want to infect an innocent with a death sentence.

[gaijin]

Almost 1/3 of gay men have had over **ONE THOUSAND** different sex partners and USUALLY they have NO relationship with them before they have sex with them.