[Dane]

The inodctrinated marxists are not concerned about keeping the blood supply safe.

[PzLdr]

Gay men should be allowed to donate blood- to progressive college students.

[OldSmaj]

They say that the policy...implies gay men are inherently sick...

Well, they are sick.

Perverted, disgusting, mentally ill and usually physically ill.

No, I don't believe I want their blood.

Sue me for my intolerance, but I'd prefer not to have to worry about all the diseases that soddomites are prone to have as a result of their disgusting life styles.

[gridlock]

This is about the stupidest thing I can imagine. The ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men does not imply that they are inherently sick. But it is an indisputable fact that AIDS is much more prevalent amongst men who have sex with men. It is also true that blood can be infectious without showing up on the blood screening tests if the donor was exposed withing the two or three months prior to donation.

So, given that men who have sex with men are engaging in a high risk activity and are likely to have had exposures in the period where the screening test is useless, how can one prevent the introduction of HIV into the blood supply without a voluntary ban on using this blood for transfusions?

Only a college student could be so stupid to value ideological purity over simple public hygiene.

Oh, and BTW, men who have sex with men can donate all the blood they want. They can go from blood bank to blood bank and bleed themselves dry, if that is their wish. But at some point they are asked to confidentially indicate whether or not they have risk factors, and thus whether or not their blood should be used for transfusion. Simple human decency requires that they not let their blood be used for transfusion if they know they have risk factors.

I know gay men who are living with AIDS. I have known gay men who have died from AIDS. Not one of them would wish their disease on anyone else. The notion that anybody would want to knowingly donate blood for transfusion that may be tainted is such a ridiculous notion one would have to be an intellectual to believe it.

[linkinpunk]

You are correct.

But keep in mind how easy it is for flaming homosexuals to lie about it and give blood.

"IMA Gay American" McGreevy lied about it when he gave blood as governor. And nobody cared.

[commonasdirt]

"......implies gay men are inherently sick....."

Well, duh. And of course it's a low priority to the groups. In order to argue against the ban they would have to deny studies that show the higher disease rates in the gay community. Sure, lets put everyone at greater risk of receiving tainted blood in order to be PC and not thought of as "homophobic". This little battle will be going nowhere folks.

[cvq3842]

Health and safety issues should not be politicized.

We should do what is necessary (in accordance with generally accepted medical standards) to reduce the spread of an incurable, fatal disease.

This is analogous to the "racial profiling" controversy in airport screening. Maybe in both contexts, we should ask ourselves if we would be using the same safeguards if the subject group were straight, white Christian males. Interesting how the left wants race, etc. to be "plus" factors in school admissions and employment, but not to be considered elsewhere.

[6SJ7]

More insane rantings from the Left, A.K.A. Death-wish Society.

[Larry Lucido]

Easy solution. Set up a private blood bank. By homos for homos.

[reformedliberal]

Isn't blood tested, independent of whatever the donor states?

And what about Hepatitis? Hep C can cause liver cancer eventually. I know people dying today or candidates for a liver transplant because of contracting Hep C thru a transfusion decades ago.

[the invisib1e hand]

suer they should. and teach phys ed to little boys, and adopt children, etc. like cats should keep little birdies as pets. or something like that.

aside, I think we should organize and promote a "National Going Back in the Closet Day."

Anyone?

Better yet, make it international.

disclaimer: I don't hate homosexuals. But I think the homosexual agenda, well...sucks.

[anniegetyourgun]

More evidence of the culture of death folks.

[doc30]

And since gay men are from the group with highest infection rates and HIV does not test positive for some tiome after infection, these students essentially want the blood supply system in the U.S. destroyed. Either that, or they are looking for a propaganda victory by increasing HIV in the heterosexual population via tainted blood. These college students sicken me.

[Past Your Eyes]

What a bunch of morons. I give blood 4 or 5 times a year. It's thanks to them that the screening process now takes about 3 times as long as it used to. Over the past 40 years I've given probably 8 or 10 gallons of blood. If they let the queers started donating just like normal people they'll get no more from me. That's the one donation I will make to the Red Cross because they sure aren't going to get any of my money.

[Bon mots]

The inodctrinated marxists are not concerned about keeping the blood supply safe.

Actually, they want to spread AIDS among the population of non-gay men. If cute suburban children are dying from AIDS, then they think that we will drastically mobilize resources to cure this otherwise homosexual disease.

AIDS queers want to infect our children, not just indoctrinate them.

[pointsal]

Stupid idea!

Now, let's get these morons registered on a Federal list

AND have them give blood to each other.

Four or five years and viola the epidemic is under control....'cause the carriers will be room temperature!

[yukong]

well, next thing you know, all IV drug users who share dirty needles will be demanding that they be able to give blood. Not allowing them to give blood is addictophobic, and that is wrong. And them people with hepatitis C will be demanding to be allowed to donate blood. To do otherwise will be hepatitophobic. And that is just wrong. What the heck, lets just drop all screening and let anyone, regardless of their health give blood. Then we will have all the blood we will need. Because after a few short years, so many will die, that the demand for blood products will go down. Or, more likely, because no one will have faith in the blood supply, no one will allow themselves to be given blood products, and thus we will have an ample supply. Yeah, that's the answer.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

PING to you, LJ

"...and they received on themselves the due penalty for their perversion." Romans 1:27b

If I may be so bold as to ask this important question:

It is obvious that a majority on this thread believe that the sodomites are statistically more likely to be carriers of deadly diseases, correct?

Then why on earth are we not calling for a quarrantine?

Seriously, if this were any other group, the public would be in outrage. Remember the dastardly meningitis scare or e-coli pandemonium of a few years ago? The public was flipping out, tripping over themselves to secure the possible carriers of those diseases. What happens each time there's an outbreak of Mad Cow? Panic. Boycotts. Public health warnings, etc.

Yet, despite the fact that fewer Americans die each year of Mad Cow, Meningitis, or e-coli than homo-infected AIDS (44% of all new cases come from them) - no one is willing to "call a spade a spade" and label these people for the walking bio-hazards that they are. C'mon - a 300% increase in Syphillis since 2001? This is a borderline epidemic.

Most of you have said (on the forum, under a condition of anonymity) how you feel about the tainted blood of the sodomites, how unsafe and dangerous it is. What's stopping us from saying it in public?

The Politically Correct blinders need to come off here, and the Truth needs to start being told as much and as soon as possible.

[American Vet Repairman]

"Now, some college students have taken up the cause, and they're taking a new tack. Instead of pressuring the FDA directly, they are going after the American Red Cross - the largest and highest-profile blood collector in the country."

The Red Cross won't budge on this one. There are billions of dollars on the line in blood related products. When people feel that the blood is 100% unsafe there will be a mass screaming for alternatives to the GaySatan damaged blood system.

[Steely Tom]

I was talking to someone with inside knowledge of the Canadian blood supply system, which was taken away from the Red Cross by the Candian government after the tainted blood scandal (in which thousands of Canadians, many of them hemophiliacs, were infected with AIDS).

This person told me that one of the main reasons that large amounts of infected blood was allowed to be used in transfusions was an unwillingness, on the part of the Canadian Red Cross, to question a donors sexual preference. My friend described it as a "mind set."

(steely)

[scripter]

Homosexual Health Hazards for the year 2005

Gays faced with new STD strains (Miami Herald), FreeRepublic
'New AIDS' spreading among homosexual men (WorldNetDaily), FreeRepublic
Rare sexually transmitted disease reported in Boston (Boston Herald)
Syphilis on the rise with gays (Greenwich Time), FreeRepublic
The African heterosexual AIDS myth (TownHall), FreeRepublic
Party, Play.And Pay (Newsweek), FreeRepublic
HIV 'supervirus' is a warning to all (Sydney Morning Herald), FreeRepublic
S.D. man could have aggressive HIV strain (San Diego), FreeRepublic
All The Condoms In The World (Christian Undergound), FreeRepublic
Criminalizing The Transmission Of The AIDS Virus (FreeRepublic)
HIV harbinger (Original Source Not Available)
Gays Debate Radical Steps to Curb Unsafe Sex (New York Times), FreeRepublic
2 new patients may hold clues to potent HIV Strains analyzed for possible links to N.Y. man's virus (San Francisco Chronicle), FreeRepublic
Rare and Aggressive H.I.V. Reported in New York (New York Times), FreeRepublic
New resistant strain of HIV diagnosed in New Yorker (Crains), FreeRepublic
Homosexual Males Award Us Again (Christian Underground), FreeRepublic
Rare sex disease strikes in New York (Original Source Not Available)
Some gays yearn for infection (PJ Star), FreeRepublic
Erasure star admits he wanted to be diagnosed with HIV (Female First (UK)), FreeRepublic