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Another View: Let gay men give blood (Barf Alert)
The Union Leader ^ | March 13, 2005 | NICHOLAS CHRISTIANSEN

Posted on 03/13/2005 3:16:21 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks

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To: Clint N. Suhks
If 10 units of blood potentially infects one to two people per year, then 13 units would potentially infect one to three people, while over 176,000 more people would potentially be protected from the dangers of blood shortages.

This is communist thinking at its purest. According to this pinhead, we should all an inseperable group, sharing in eachother's problems.

To get us there, he wants to ensure that we share the same problems as the Homosexuals.

I seem to remember some radical gay agenda from the 1990s that wanted gay men to infect hetero women so that the HIV problem would get more Hetero attention. Anybody have an article about that?

61 posted on 03/14/2005 8:13:25 AM PST by Nice50BMG (AB 50 outlaws the use of this tagline in California.)
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To: Windsong; Logos124
I recall a Star Trek: TNG episode that dealt with this issue. A Romulan was on board that needed a rare blood donor, and Worf was the only one on board who could give it to him, but the Romulan looked at it as if his blood would be poisonous to him (which it wasn't). If memory serves, anyways. I think this was around 94, however.

You sir are a total nerd.

BTW, that was a great episode.

The Romulan ends up dying and Wolf refuses to give his blood to him.

62 posted on 03/14/2005 8:13:43 AM PST by Jimmyclyde (Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
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To: taxesareforever
Being gay and having safe homosexual sex does not put you at any more risk of HIV than being straight and having safe heterosexual sex.

Ok, as long as only gay people are given gay men's blood.

63 posted on 03/14/2005 9:38:40 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: Windsong
that dealt with this issue. A Romulan was on board that needed a rare blood donor, and Worf was the only one on board who could give it to him,

Didn't deal with that issue at all. That would be more analogous to a race issue, not a sexual behavior issue.

64 posted on 03/14/2005 9:39:52 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: em2vn
Why take a chance with other peoples lives?

Because they know AIDS is, as tragic as it is, a relatively small demographic so they don't hold as much funding clout as they'd like. One way to increase that demographic is to create an epidemic of people who do not participate in these risky behaviors.

65 posted on 03/14/2005 9:41:23 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: taxesareforever

btw my post at 63 - I didn't realize you were quoting. Glad to see you didn't REALLY agree with that. :-)


66 posted on 03/14/2005 9:43:24 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Being gay and having safe homosexual sex does not put you at any more risk of HIV than being straight and having safe heterosexual sex.

Thats a lie, a complete lie. This kind of crap has been sold to our adoloscents as truth. It first appeared in the late 80's to early 90's in order to sell AIDS research and the alternative lifestyle to the rich suburbs. The chances are tons higher for people of "alternative lifestyles".

Its the equivalent to saying that the chances are equal between a beer drinker and a herion user.

67 posted on 03/14/2005 9:44:01 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

"If the FDA truly wanted the safest blood supply possible, it would require all donors to be asked about safe sex practices."

I believe we are if I recall.


68 posted on 03/14/2005 9:44:02 AM PST by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: IamConservative

"If the FDA truly wanted the safest blood supply possible, it would require all donors to be asked about safe sex practices."

I believe we are if I recall.

Believe what you want. They do this because they don't want to be accused of discrimination based on sexual orientation. Wake up and smell the roses.


69 posted on 03/14/2005 10:11:30 AM PST by taxesareforever
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To: Clint N. Suhks

And people like me cannot donate blood because of time spent overseas, yet theses guys who willingly expose themselves to fatal diseases want to be able to donate to the general public.

But then again, what kind of judgement can you expect from men who play with other men's genitals?


70 posted on 03/14/2005 10:16:48 AM PST by Eagle Eye (BTDT got the T shirt, shot glass, coffee mug, ball cap, shoulder patch, key chain, challenge coin...)
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To: taxesareforever

I was just observing that what was said in the article should happen already does happen. Perhaps you should let the meds kick in before posting.


71 posted on 03/14/2005 10:47:59 AM PST by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: IamConservative

I was just observing that what was said in the article should happen already does happen. Perhaps you should let the meds kick in before posting.

I just observed what you just said and I believe your meds have kicked in since what you wrote makes absolutely no sense.


72 posted on 03/14/2005 11:23:04 AM PST by taxesareforever
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I just read this today, and I completely agree that this is sick, another way to spread their disease to everybody else. This should be met with extreme caution in relation to public health (I remember the Chinese government threatening to shoot people that deliberately spread the SARS virus a few years ago).

As a student in the UC school, I am aware that there is an agenda among the LGBT clubs, including lobbying the Red Cross to change eligibility requirements. Check out their recommendations here: http://www.uclgbtia.org/blood.html


73 posted on 03/14/2005 2:55:35 PM PST by dschemmer
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