[Faith Presses On]

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Lifting U.S. curbs on gay blood donors seen years away: experts, Reuters:

"Blood supply experts say the FDA will need to determine whether the move to a one-year waiting period for gay and bisexual men made the blood supply less, more or just as safe.

"That effort will take several years, and only then would the agency be able to consider relaxing its restrictions further, said Brian Custer, who has led a number of studies on the nation's blood supply and is associate director of the Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) in San Francisco.

"Removing the waiting period altogether would also likely require a large-scale study that tested blood samples of people who would be banned under current criteria, said Dr. Michael Busch, a co-director of BSRI. Busch helped discover in the 1980s that HIV could be transmitted through blood transfusions.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never forget the hemophiliac die-off of the ‘80s that was a direct result of AIDS-infected homosexuals donating blood.

[dsrtsage]

Let gay men indiscriminately donate blood...as long as it is properly cataloged and used only for muslim patients

[max americana]

“were among 23 Democrats and one Republican — Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois”

that clown aint a “Republican”. He’s a Dummycrat pretending to be GOP.

[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

[ResponseAbility]

****A partial federal ban on gay men donating blood is “discriminatory”****

Yep, it sure is. And it is also the right thing to do. Discrimination is our friend.

[CGASMIA68]

So lets see.
Dont recognize a muslim terrorist,
take away our ability to protect our family and self
and now let AIDS carriers donate blood.

Whats the problem??

[DiogenesLamp]

Ban on gay men giving blood 'discriminatory': Murray, Cantwell, other senators

D@mn right it is! It is the rational discrimination between healthy people and disease ridden people.

[faithhopecharity]

the only discrimination involved is trying to protect our emergency blood supplies... and the rest of us from innocently getting AIDS

it is NO harm at all to someone with AIDS if he can’t donate his blood, this is the stupidest claim I’ve ever heard from the homosexual lobby , it doesn’t make even the simplest of sense

[Nifster]

Stooooopid idiots

[freedumb2003]

So how many deaths from AIDS will be considered an acceptable price of Political Correctness?

Insanity.

[JimSEA]

Tell Arthur Ashe how discrimatory it is. That is if you could.

[WENDLE]

They generally have AIDS from their sexual acts. I sure would not want homosexual blood in my body.

[CodeToad]

“Ban on convicted child molester getting a baby-sitting license is discriminatory!”

[xzins]

The senators are ignorant. The incidence of mad cow disease is extremely remote, far more remote than HIV, yet I was one month away from being disallowed to donate blood because of the years I lived in Germany while in the Army.

[Raycpa]

Of course it’s discrimination.

[fella]

Bayer Documents: AIDS Tainted Blood Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

Arkansas Bloodsuckers, The Clintons, Prisoners and The Blood Trade

[Gay State Conservative]

A few years ago I had my hip replaced at a very large and very famous hospital.My surgeon told me beforehand that it was distinctly possible that I'd need blood during and/or after the procedure.He strongly advised me to store my own blood rather than depend on the Red Cross or another blood bank.

To me that says all I need to know about blood donation in this country.

[txrefugee]

No doubt that were it ever necessary to give them blood, these Liberal Diversity Crusaders would only accept blood from homosexuals. Yeah, sure.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that the Secret Service won't let blood donated by perverts within a mile of our Community Organizer-In-Chief.

If it's not good enough for him it's not good enough to me.

[VR-21]

As the years go by I’ve gained a better understanding of why Caligula made his horse a Roman Consul.