[Kickass Conservative]

Let them Donate and let the Person receiving their Blood sign a Release of Liability if the Blood is contaminated.

BTW - How do the Donation Centers know if the Donor is Gay?

Is there a Flamboyancy Test?

Do they play Broadway Show Tunes and watch for quirky Body Movement?

Voice Recognition Software that detects a Lisp?

Flash a picture of Katherine Zeta Jones and see if the Donors Pupils dilate?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s called “telling the truth.”

Evidently you consider that to be aberrant behavior.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You are also not supposed to donate blood if you have ingested aspirin in the past 72 hours.

Is that discrimination too?

And of course you could lie and say you hadn’t taken aspirin within 72 hours, and if somebody dies because of it so what?

The important thing is you got to donate blood, because it’s all about you.

[GingisK]

With some, there is no doubt.

[martinidon]

Good point, let them sign a release of liability and make the government agree to take care of all medical care, drugs and other expenses for anyone contracting HIV through donated blood!

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, seriously, how do they find out?

Does the workers ask them point blank if they are gay?

What about Lesbians? I don’t think they have AIDs like homosexual men?

I’ve never given blood as I’m a type 1 diabetic on a constant insulin pump.

[Myrddin]

Easier approach. Sign an affidavit that you are not gay and have not had sex with men. The penalty for perjury on the form is 10 years imprisonment. About the same exposure as lying on a Form 4473 to buy a firearm. Prosecute and incarcerate every liar without fail. Test the blood donation anyway to reduce the risk of giving the recipient an incurable disease.