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In an effort to protect the nation’s blood supply from the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had a longstanding policy banning most gay men from donating blood.

The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated. The FDA maintains that homosexual sex is an "at risk" activity for the spread of HIV and the need to protect the blood supply takes priority over the feelings of gay men.
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I completely agree with this policy. If this young man wants to help, then he can volunteer something other than his blood. It is a fact that HIV/AIDS is transmitted via sexual contact, and even a condom isn't 100% protection. They don't allow women who have slept with IV drug users to donate either, from what I read late last week.

If he's offended by the Red Cross trying to protect people, then he needs to have his head examined.

The idiot thinks he has a right to inject his blood into folks innocent of knowledge of his high risk behavior. His little buddies at school are of the same opinion.

These students simply have to be excised from our society before they murder more people.

>> a condom isn't 100% protection. <<

That's an understatement! Condoms are designed for heterosexual contact. Said one AIDS activist in the 1980s: "Wearing a condom during anal intercourse is like using an umbrella in a hurricane."

When it says on a condom that it is 99% effective when used properly, people should know several things:

1. Condoms are only improperly used enough that people having regular sex while using condoms still have 50% as many babies as people who do not use condoms while having regular sex.

2. The effectivess measure refers only to sperm, which are thousands of times larger than an AIDS virus, degrade nearly instantly, and tend to remain in the most viscous part of the semen.

3. Condoms are designed for vaginal intercourse only.

4. Many lubricants, which are commonly used for anal sex, degrade many condoms.

5. Anal sex is vastly more likely to result in abrasins and epidermal tears which allow semen-to-blood contact, making condom failure during anal sex much more catastrophic than condom failure during vaginal sex.

The policy has angered many in the gay community, who view it as discriminatory and outdated. The FDA maintains that homosexual sex is an "at risk" activity for the spread of HIV and the need to protect the blood supply takes priority over the feelings of gay men.

I don't give a rat's a$$ about a homosexual man's 'feelings'! I want the blood supply to be disease free! That is one of the major reasons for the Red Cross.

Can you imagine what one of these men would do if they had to receive blood because of an accident, and received AIDS tainted blood? Do you think he'd be 'understanding' because the Red Cross had been sensitive to honosexuals? HELL NO! He'd sue their a$$es off!