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As President Obama holds a White House “Gay Pride” reception on June 22, the homosexual rights movement is quietly acknowledging that decades of “safe sex” education have failed and that cases of HIV/AIDS and illegal drug use are on the rise among gay males.
Indeed, gay members of Congress have scheduled a June 24 briefing on Capitol Hill to examine “the rising incidence of HIV, STDs and Viral Hepatitis among gay men in the U.S.”
Incredibly, these gay males are the same ones demanding the “right” to donate blood that could be contaminated with HIV and other deadly diseases.
Over at the State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah will speak on the topic of “integrating” lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered human rights with U.S. foreign policy in a State Department briefing on June 22. The State Department recently announced that Americans can declare they are undergoing “gender transition” to a new gender on their passports.
In Canada, a ruling is expected soon in a court case involving a gay rights activist who lied about gay sex during 18 blood donations. He is claiming the prohibition on gay blood, similar to the one in effect in the U.S., is a violation of his rights. He was sued on the ground that the rights of recipients of blood and blood products take precedence.
A pro-gay ruling in this case could be cited by the Obama Administration as justification to lift the ban on gay blood in the U.S.
Under political pressure from liberal Democrats such as Senators John Kerry and Al Franken, a U.S. federal blood safety committee held meetings (PDF) on June 10 and 11 to consider lifting the gay blood ban. It voted 9-6 in the face of intense pressure from the gay rights lobby to keep the ban.
The vote, however, was a mere recommendation and can be overturned by Obama political appointees in the Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration.
In a presentation to the blood safety committee, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) argued that blood screening procedures have “virtually” eliminated the risk of HIV transmission through the blood supply in the U.S. In fact, however, as recently as 2007, there were 4 cases of the AIDS-causing HIV virus being transmitted to transplant recipients in the Chicago area.
The GMHC, whose original purpose was taking care of people with HIV/AIDS, has become perhaps the leading organizational member of the gay rights lobby demanding a “right” for gay males to donate to the nation’s blood supply. It had previously released a report (PDF), “A Drive for Change: Reforming U.S. Blood Donation Policies.”
The GMHC noted that campus blood drives are being cancelled by colleges and universities because of charges by left-wing student and gay activists that the ban on gay blood is unfair. The implied threat is that this campaign could lead to shortages of blood for blood transfusions if the “right” of gay males to donate blood continues to be thwarted.
In its 2009 annual report, the organization acknowledges that “Gay men are still jeopardizing their lives and health with crystal methamphetamine addictions that lead to risk-taking behaviors and an increase in HIV infections.”
The GMHC gets half of its revenues from the federal government but also receives support from such entities as the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros.
Taking on the gay lobby, however, several speakers at the federal blood safety meetings argued that the ban was necessary because of the threat of a “new HIV” or an emerging pathogen in the blood of gay males that could threaten the general population.
The failure by authorities to quickly ban gay blood when the HIV/AIDS crisis was developing led to the deaths of thousands of recipients of blood transfusions in the U.S. and Canada.
Five million people a year get blood transfusions in the U.S.
Even while the GMHC and other gay groups continue to argue for lifting the ban on gay men donating blood, the June 24 congressional briefing on “the rising incidence of HIV, STDs and Viral Hepatitis among gay men in the U.S.” is being held. Greg Millett of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy is one of the speakers.
The event is being coordinated by staffers for openly gay Democratic Reps. Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, and Jared Polis.
Frank’s aide, Diego Sanchez, is noteworthy for being the first transgender activist named as a congressional staffer. Erica Lovley of Politico recently reported that Sanchez is one of the leaders of the new “LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered] Congressional Staff Association” on Capitol Hill.
Politico added that “The group has also taken on a quiet side project: finding new jobs for the displaced staffers of former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), several of whom are gay, according to the lawyer for the staffers and other aides. Massa resigned amid allegations that he had sexually harassed male aides, but with his departure, all the office staffers lost their jobs.”
In other words, what happened in the case of Massa’s resignation was a gay sex scandal.
In a development related to the Canadian blood case, which was mentioned during the U.S. blood safety meetings, a “human rights complaint” that was filed in 2007 by a group of Canadian homosexuals against the government of Canada insists that the ban on gay males donating blood is “discriminatory.”
At the same time, the complaint acknowledges that gays and lesbians are at higher risk for a number of deadly diseases and disorders that reduce the life spans of gay and bisexual men by 20 years compared to the average man in Canada. The complaint also contends that:
- Gays and lesbians commit suicide at a rate from twice to 13.9 times more often than the general population.
- Homosexual smoking rates are 1.3 to 3 times higher than the general population.
- Alcoholism rates among homosexuals are 1.4 to 7 times higher than the general population.
- Illegal drug use is 1.6 to 19 times higher among homosexuals than the general population.
- Rates of depression are 1.8 to 3 times higher among homosexuals than the general population.
The Canadian gays insist that these problems are the result of “homophobia” and the “marginalization” of gays and lesbians. As a result, it says the government of Canada should spend another $8 billion on health care for homosexuals.
Here, the federal government has spent more than $200 billion on AIDS since the first case emerged in 1977, without finding a vaccine or a cure. Anti-AIDS drugs have permitted those with HIV and AIDS to live longer, although the long-term effects of these drugs are not known and some have speculated that the virus could react by mutating into a more deadly form.
The FAIR Foundation, which argues for equitable funding of research into cures for various diseases, points out that federal spending on AIDS amounts to $225,656 per patient versus $2,429 per patient for those suffering from heart attack and stroke.
Nevertheless, citing a sharp increase in HIV infections among gay men, the GMHC is now demanding more spending from Congress on AIDS. It also wants:
- Sex education for middle school and high school students that “explicitly addresses” homosexuality.
- The use of the public schools to “promote tolerance and acceptance” of homosexuality under the cover of “gay-straight alliances and anti-bullying curricula.”
- Media campaigns against “homophobia.”
On June 27, the GMHC will be participating in the New York City “Gay Pride” march.
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Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.
20 Comments for Obama Celebrates “Gay Pride” as HIV Cases Rise
This is just so sad. I remember a woman coming into a grocery store where I where I worked as a cashier. She looked as if she was ready to die. I found out that she had Hepatitis C and was waiting for a transplant. She had the transplant and came into the store a few months after. She looked wonderful and we were all so very happy for her. Then about a year after the transplant she came in again to the store. She looked very ill again. I asked her, what had happened. She replied that the liver she had been given was from a young man that was also a drug user and had HIV. She was now dying from HIV and Hepatitis C. How so very sad. My heart ached for her. She is dead now. All of what the government is allowing causes so much heartache for many people. They need to stop this allowing a few people to dictate to the greater majority.
Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to it. God will be the final arbiter and judge on these matters. The loud cries and many argumentative words expended on these matters are not germane to the dialogue. The issue here is death, or if you will, the murder of a human being by another human being who willfully provides his personal blood to others and that the donated blood is provably poisoned by deadly pathogens. Science is on the side of God by proving, without doubt, that Homosexual blood is toxic to human life, including the donor. We all die in the end, but hastening another persons death to defend ones own “uncivil” rights, is insanity at best and murder at worst. All societies are seemingly bent upon a descent into Entropy and this is just another slippery slope into that bus with no brakes, that so many foolish people are eagerly climbing upon.
Ther is one thing for sure, if I had to have blood and some one gave me this tainted blood,there would be a man or woman hunt like this country has never seen and when I did find the person that donated ,the person that authorized the use of the blood and the person that administered the blood and when I finised dealing with them Iwould go after every sucker that voted to allow this to happen by changing the law. I mean these people have already pronounced a death sentence on me so what’s to loose turn about is fair play. I guarantee that these so called administrators will make sure that the blood they need would not be from some queer and the hospital staff would do every test possible to make sure this would never happen,but some poor smow would be given what ever is left on the shelf
Why do we call them “gays”? We could use the right name and call them “homosexuals’ because they fear the opposite sex so much that they need to only have sex with their own (homo) sex. I don’t see anything “gay” or happy about that group that has decided to pursue an unhealthy and unhappy lifestyle. My prayers go out to them so that they will choose LIFE! Shalom
The putrid stench passed off as “Law Enforcement” enables this swill. Thank them if you wish. Or curse them for what they’ve done to this country. The choice is yours. For now, anyway.
As for me, I thank God every time he sends another of them to the Hell they so truly deserve.
If America can only suvive till November
Congress needs to be replaced.
The Supreme Court recognized that a private organization (like the Boy Scouts) can discriminate, so we need to have a private organization (no governmental interference) that will undertake providing blood to (at least) private hospitals. We, the sane, will have to support only private, discriminatory blood donor groups, donate blood only through those private, discriminatory organizations, and REQUIRE that we get blood transfusions, if necessary, only from private, discriminatory organizations, even if Medicare, etc. refuses to pay for non-polluted blood.
I would also like to see that these private organizations refuse to provide blood for any member of Congress; let them get any blood they need from their polluted supply.
I for one see no reason gay “homosexuals’ or what ever they are called think they have the right to donate there tainted blood. Evertime one does he/she should be brought up on charges for manslaughter. When I think that all the G.Is who served in europe and gulf are no longer allowed to donaite blood because we supposedly might have mad cow deseas. The reason I also dont want Gays’“homosexuals’ of either gender is in combat they don’t ask are you a quer or anything elise they say what is your blood type and proceed to transfer blood. So all you goody two shoes who have never served or went into the guard shut the f–k up about allowing them in the military openly. I never liked the dont ask dont tell policy either, Same answer I dont like the idea of being in a shower with a known quer. I think they should albe made civilians as they are the ones who want them. They make up less than 2% of the population yet seem to act like they are the majority, f–k them.
I for one see no reason gay “homosexuals’ or what ever they are called think they have the right to donate there tainted blood. Evertime one does he/she should be brought up on charges for manslaughter. When I think that all the G.Is who served in europe and gulf are no longer allowed to donaite blood because we supposedly might have mad cow deseas. The reason I also dont want Gays’“homosexuals’ of either gender is in combat they don’t ask are you a quer or anything elise they say what is your blood type and proceed to transfer blood. So all you goody two shoes who have never served or went into the guard shut the f–k up about allowing them in the military openly. I never liked the dont ask dont tell policy either, Same answer I dont like the idea of being in a shower with a known quer. I think they should all be made civilians as they are the ones who want them. They make up less than 2% of the U.S. population yet seem to act like they are the majority, f–k them.
Obama, Nancy, Harry and Congress supports a gay life style that causes sickness, death and will add a tremendous burden to the taxpayers when they have to pay for the expensive treatment of Aids patients. I resent being taxed and having to pay a high insurance premium for people who care more about a sick lifestyle than their own health.
If our dear leader can punish BP and the whole oil industry for what he deems irresponsible and reckless behavior, why can he not punish homosexuals for their irresponsible and reckless behavior? I don’t see the oil industry claiming the right to cause damage and then have the people pay for it. Why can homosexuals do this?
Our dear leader and his led have lost their minds on the altar of political correctness. Their burnt offerings will consume us all, willing or not.
America has become a nation where spiritual warfare is going on. The wicked are being placed in high offices that enable them to dictate national policy through “politically correctness!” The traditions of man are being taught to the people, instead of the Word of God ! God gave man “free will”, and if man chooses to follow a path of wickedness, so be it ! It is not the place of man to judge his fellow man, but all will be judged by God Almighty ! Christians are being assaulted from all sides as we move closer to outright persecution ! Diplomats talk peace in the Mideast…there will never be true peace in the Mideast, many pray for peace in the Mideast…pray that the the Will of God be done ! and then as now, the enemies of God are my enemies…the enemies of Israel are my enemies !!!
Obama and people like him are either knowingly or unknowingly the thralls of Satan, whose number one goal is to get men to die in a state of mortal sin. Because then…
{Here is what I see on the internet. From Carlos)
For info on the dark unseen forces behind and related to the upcoming Fayetteville, Arkansas gay parade (featuring a brainwashed 10-year-old boy!), Google “Obama Supports Public Depravity,” “Separation of Raunch and State” and “Government-Approved Illegals.” Did Arkansas learn anything from its recent flood-related disaster? Which being has the final say about what goes on on His planet? Try guessing!
Wow, you are some of the scariest, most close-minded, judgemental, bigoted, religious hysterics I have ever had the misfortune of being subjected to.
Don’t bother replying, I won’t be back to your horrible site.
Worldwide five to ten percent of the cases of HIV infection are transmitted through the transfusion of infected Blood. I strongly believe that the blood industry must be made to meet high standards of safety in blood collection no matter from whom the blood comes from.
First of all I am a male homosexual in my late 40s and survived the 80s and 90s by practicing safe sex religiously. I am still HIV negative because of this practice. What I see going on today primarily amongst younger homosexual men is total denial of AIDS to the point that they cannot even call it AIDS any longer; it is now referred to as HIV Disease” or just “HIV”. There is at the heart of the problem a total denial of responsibility. So often you hear a young gay man who recently gets infected with AIDS say, “well that guy didn’t tell me he was HIV positive” or “he lied and said he was clean”. At the end of the day men who want to be penetrated have the ultimate responsibility to insist that a condom be worn. But this does not happen for various reasons today, primarily a desire for the pleasure of a condom-less orgasm…so this is how far we have come since AIDS reared its ugly head 30 years ago….gay men are so infatuated with the ultimate orgasm that condoms are out the window and HIV infections are on the rise. The scary thing is that HIV infection reporting is completely inaccurate since most cities and states do not keep track of people who are HIV positive unless someone dies of a complication of AIDS. Even then, because of pressure from families or politics, as the case may be, often the official cause of death is something benign like phenomena or cancer. On a final note, the only thing keeping these guys alive today who are HIV positive is a whole litany of drugs. If this virus ever mutates we will see a death toll reminiscent of the black plague. Maybe that is what is needed to get gay men to wake up and go back to practicing safe sex like people my age did in the 80s and 90s before all of these designer AIDS drugs emerged in the mid-to-late 90s. What is ironic is that the very existence of these drugs has promoted and fueled the explosion on unsafe sex amongst gay men, since they are looked upon as wonder drugs to be popped each morning like a multi-vitamin and at the same time AIDS is perceived as the equivalent of measles or herpes.
Obama is disgusting. He cares more about gays and their cult of perversion than he does about our war veterans, our crime victims and our homeless.
It seems our government is for “spreading more than the wealth”. Might as well spread deadly diseases around too, while we’re at it. I say keep your “questionable” blood and organs to yourselves. If you want to give blood, organs to each other with full disclosure, fine.