Posted on 06/15/2016 9:35:06 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
...This week we faced a new challenge: mass violence in the very place we felt most comfortable, accepted and secure. After the attack, the city of Orlando and the state of Florida mobilized. Officials called on people in the area to donate blood for those who were injured in the shooting. Thousands of people have reportedly lined up to donate. But some of them — gay and bisexual men — are unable to.
As a registered nurse, I know the importance of donated blood...
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But many of the people who felt the tragedy most closely can’t offer their help. That's because the Food and Drug Administration bars sexually active gay men from donating. This ban is ostensibly in place to protect blood supplies from being contaminated with H.I.V. But it dates from a time before H.I.V. testing was standard practice for blood donations. It is now generally agreed that H.I.V. can be detected in the blood of an infected person within a matter of weeks. Donors should be assessed according to their risk — not their sexual orientation. In the wake of a hateful attack that left over a hundred people from our community dead or injured, this ban must be removed.
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Several years ago, I went to donate blood for a friend in nursing school who suffers from sickle cell anemia. To my shock, I was turned away after filling out a questionnaire that asked if I had ever had sexual contact with another man. According to the F.D.A.’s policy at the time, I was barred from donating blood for life. I was embarrassed and outraged. A few days later, my boyfriend (now husband) and I started a project called Banned4Life to fight this outdated policy.
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I posted this thread mistakenly for a second time because an error report came up the first time I did so. Could you remove it please? Thank you.
Because, until the HIV test is proven to be 100% accurate, your blood might give someone a death sentence.
Because your life style choice makes you particularly prone to disgusting and life threatening diseases which can easily be spread through blood transfusions.
Making you feel good about yourself is not worth the killing and injuring of innocent people.
Call NOW!
We have a legion of lawyers waiting for your call!
You contracted aids from bad blood, call now!
You have aids and they refuse your donation, call now!!!
The duplicate thread doesn’t allow replies for some reason.
The lack of concern for gay men among liberals and among gays disgusts me. Conservatives don’t want them to die from a contagious and deadly disease. Liberals don’t want their feelings hurt and consider that more important than whether more people die of AIDS.
Because we had enough blood from a gay man in Orlando.
Normal folk were coming out of the wood work to donate.No one needs his or any other homosexuals blood.
Ask Ryan White or Art Ash.Woops ya cant the are dead from aids tainted blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White
It’s not like there aren’t plenty of normal people to give blood. I heard there was a line around the block in Orlando of people coming to donate blood.
It’s because you don’t know what your buttonhole is for.
It's not just HIV. Homosexuals are a cesspool of vile diseases, among them Hepatitis C, which is also fatal.
Herpes, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HPV, and so on are all rife within the homosexual community.
Having 500 - 1000 sexual partners in a lifetime drastically increases the odds of being infected with diseases such as these.
Spreading this crap into the blood supply is insane, and we should Violently oppose this effort if necessary.
This thread mistakenly posted twice. The other one I got an error report on, which is why I posted the thread again, but the other one isn’t allowing replies to be posted anyway. Could you remove it then please? Thank you.
I wont take a transfusion until my Hgb < 6, all because of homosexuals giving blood.
For the same reason I can’t because I had Hepatitis A when I was 12 years old, latent affects in the blood. Or my daughter who was born in Germany in 1984 can’t, a combination of the mad cow disease in Europe and Chernobyl during that time.
Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov also died from AIDS contracted through Tainted blood. Lots of people were killed as a result of tolerating homosexual behavior.
I’m a straight man from North Carolina. Why would I want you donating diseased blood to other people? Furthermore, why do we even have gay/lesbian perversion threads on Free Republic? There’s probably a Gay Pride site or whatever catering to gays and the beastiality inclined.
“Making you feel good about yourself is not worth the killing and injuring of innocent people. “
It is if you are a liberal.
“I Am a Gay Man From Orlando.
Why Can’t I Donate Blood?”
Because you are a gay man.
Simple you moron....you engage in high risk sexual activity. If you had travelled to Africa or a pika country you would not be allowed to donate either. it is imperative to keep the blood supply safe. Those who might be carrying cannot donate
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