Posted on 02/23/2005 8:47:22 PM PST by Lorianne
DURHAM The University of New Hampshires Student Senate will consider adopting a resolution tomorrow that would challenge the federal governments policy of banning sexually active gay men from donating blood.
Sponsored by student Sen. Nicholas Christiansen, a 19-year-old sophomore, and the student senates Community Change Council, the resolution wants the Food and Drug Administration and the American Red Cross to become, in its words, aware of our strong opposition to the policy that bans sexually active homosexual males from ever donating blood, and that the students are dedicated to equal treatment and opportunity for all people, regardless of sexual orientation.
If adopted, the resolution would recommend that UNH seek a group other than the Red Cross for campus blood drives. The FDAs policy has been in place since the 1980s and is meant to avoid spreading HIV, the virus that causes AIDs. About half of reported cases of HIV infections are among gay men.
Were not trying to ban the Red Cross from our campus, at least not immediately, Christiansen said. The resolution states that were going to try and find someone else to take our blood.
Christiansen, who is gay, said he began working on the resolution during winter break after friends questioned why gay men are prohibited from giving blood. He acknowledged that the Red Cross is adhering to federal guidelines but said his resolution calls out the Red Cross because that group opposes any change in the FDA policy.
Michael Freedman, chief of American Red Cross Blood Services for New England, said the issue has been raised on other college campuses in the region but he was not aware of a formal resolution from a student government group. He said the Red Cross is following FDA guidelines in barring gay men sexually active since 1977 from being blood donors.
We are supportive of the science that would make the blood supply as safe as possible, and allow as many people as possible to donate safely, he said.
Other factors limiting blood donation include illness, drug use, and time spent in countries with diseases or viruses that can be passed through blood. For example, travelers to the United Kingdom are not allowed to give blood in the United States because of fears of spreading mad-cow disease, Freedman said.
The Red Cross holds blood drives on the UNH campus throughout the academic year.
College campuses and high schools provide about 360,000 pints of blood, or 15 percent, of all the blood collected for banks in New England, Freedman said.
All major colleges are important, he said. First, because of the volume, and also because people can donate over their lifetime and we believe its important to get people to start early and get in the volunteer mindset of donating blood.
Freedman said Red Cross representatives would speak with UNH students about the policy if invited, but that he was not aware of any Red Cross representatives planning to attend the student senate meeting tomorrow.
I think a lot of people say, theyre the Red Cross, and they are great, but it doesnt mean they can discriminate, Christiansen said. I think it would send a really strong message to say even the Red Cross cant do this.
I know. I am finally starting to believe that the Good Lord has had it with us.
Someone should ask these idiots if they would be willing to sign leagal papers stating that if they ever need a blood transfusion that the RED CROSS can REFUSE giving blood to them
Oh, please, let's do jump off THAT dock yet!
LOL None whatsoever.
Homosexuality continually confirms itself to be nothing more than a death cult.
It's not enough that these idiots want to spread HIV-AIDS to each other, they want to spread it to the rest of us, as well! Level the playing field, so to speak. Just another part of the homosexual agenda, or am I being paranoid?
I had a real good reply to this story but I decided to scrap it in order to keep my membership active.
My blood is boiling and if I could only get my hands around that little c..........
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That way the the tainted blood wouldn't be such a bother.
An excerpt from "New AIDs Strain? Of Course! (Price Of Gay PC Is Death)"
"Gay activists are already protesting the announcement of the appearance of a new and deadly strain of the AIDS virus. In reporting the story, the The New York Times wondered aloud about the protests (e.g., who could protest a scientific announcement?) but then went on to justify it: announcing the new strain apparently might call attention to the continued reckless behavior of the gay community, and its continued intimidation of public health officials as in this protest. Of course the Times didn't quite put it this way, but that was its meaning.
This protest is a deadly analogue to the hysteria at Harvard where feminist ideologues have successfully brought the Harvard presidency to its knees and made it impossible to conduct a serious discussion about women's opportunities in science. Unfortunately, the intimdations by gay activists of public health officials have led to something more serious than the dumbing down of a once great intellectual institution like Harvard. The mindless political attacks by the gay left on any public health official uttering the truth has led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of gay males in the 25 years of the epidemic..."
An excerpt from "HIV harbinger"
"This story is the homosexual lobby's worst nightmare. When it agitates for marriage, adoption and other extraordinary rights, it finds homosexuals who have been in committed relationships for long periods to speak to legislators, judges or journalists. But as extensive sociological research has shown, the New York City case is more typical of the promiscuous lifestyle of homosexuals...
As much as homosexual agitators contend HIV threatens everyone, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 82 percent of America's 920,000 AIDS cases in 2003 began with homosexual sex, the sharing of drug needles or both. Heterosexual contact accounted for less than 15 percent, but the rate among monogamous couples and abstinent singles was 0 percent. These numbers illustrate best why the life expectancy of homosexuals is at least 30 years shorter than that of the average heterosexual.
At a time when the cost of health insurance is soaring and millions have lost or are at risk of losing their health coverage, why should taxpayers through Medicaid and insurers through higher premiums have to pay so that more than 200 million people may undergo unnecessary testing when the people most responsible for transmitting HIV won't submit to tests or take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease?
The Vampires want to infect the blood supply. The "givers" can't replicate their serotoxin fast enough by barebacking so they're pulling this "rights" crap.
From the UNH on-line directory:
Campus Info:
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Phone: 603-295-6682
Email: ntc2@cisunix.unh.edu
This crap really pisses me off to no end.
What in GOD'S name is happening to GOD'S once beautiful world????
Another thing is that I'm pretty sure that most gay men agree with guidelines on donating blood and probably wish that people like Christiansen would just shut the hell up and not draw unwanted attention to the issue thus making everyone in the gay community look unreasonable.
Believe it or not, most gays do not want to get married, adopt children or donate blood. Most of them want to be left the hell alone to practice sodomy as they wish. The small but vocal minority who are screaming about these things are the albatross around their necks!
Gays like Christiansen are doing a disservice to the gay community (a community I am *NOT* a part of just for the record).
Yup. And my son, who was 4yo when we left, can't give blood either. He's now 17.
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