If I’m an operating table, I don’t care who’s blood it is, as long as its been tested for diseases.
Because we know all the variations of virally transmitted sexual diseases Homosexuals may have been exposed to and have a test for each and every one.
Are you kidding me? Homosexuals might have 500-1000 sexual partners in their lifetime. There are thousands of variations of diseases which we do not have tests for, or for which there are complicated and time consuming tests.
It's like taking a chance with third world blood and diseases which it might have that we haven't yet even discovered.
I will remind you that AIDS went all through the blood supply and killed people before we even knew what it was or could test for it.
Do you think some other new disease, or a variant of an old one could not do the same thing?
Homosexuals should be banned from contributing blood under any circumstances. To do otherwise is simply gambling with another person's life just to make queers feel good about themselves. (With a suicide rate north of 40%, they must have very little to feel good about.)
From the FDA report on the issue:
“However, some have argued that a five-year deferral would, in theory, add a safeguard by allowing time for intervention against an emerging infectious disease that might spread rapidly among MSM and be transmitted through blood transfusion.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440453/posts
Sexually active homosexuals are a virtual petri dish for various pathogens to flourish in, mutating readily and breaking out into new, drug-resistant strains. They LOVE homosexuals.