Comments on: The Battle Over Blood

By: Televisor

Televisor — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:29:55 +0000

But if you’re gay, you’re in ‘that’ lifestyle, regardless of anything else. Nobody listens, they only make decisions based on their fears and completely ludicrous assumptions

By: Ben Hennessy

Ben Hennessy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:39:30 +0000

“…wheter [sic] you practice safe sex with a [sic] condoms or not ,they [sic] the condoms can break ,it is not a [sic] 100% safe .”

Which is why there is an emphasis on prevention in the gay community. Most gay advocacy groups recommend regular STD testing.

By: Jarrell

Jarrell — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:24:49 +0000

It is wrong to exclude an entire class of people from giving blood because some have determined in their stereotypical view that gay males are more likely to have AIDS than others. Some gays are monogamous, some are not. Some heterosexuals are monogamous, some are not. Heteros who sleep around are just as likely to have AIDS than gay males who sleep around. I have some gay male friends who are very responsible and live moral lives.

I also know of some hetero people who are very irresponsible and live dangerously destructive lives. No one refers to what they do as the “hetero lifestyle” or tries to categorize them as people who shouldn’t give blood, or can’t be in the military, or any number of other things. It seems like responsibility is never questioned, but it should be.

But if you’re gay, you’re in ‘that’ lifestyle, regardless of anything else. Nobody listens, they only make decisions based on their fears and completely ludicrous assumptions.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:53:16 +0000

Why can’t gay people understand that their life style is unnatural?I feel sorry for them but not so sorry that i would take there blood ,wheter you practice safe sex with a condoms or not ,they the condoms can break ,it is not a 100% safe .I have a 38 year old son that was concieved with a condom in use oops.
I am sorry but it is what it is abnormal ,don’t try to make me believe that is is normal a man with a man etc is not normalality .

By: Ben Hennessy

Ben Hennessy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:13:39 +0000

I don’t understand what the activists are actually worried about. I’m gay and I give blood frequently. Just lie and say you’re straight, and as long as you always use condoms (unless you both recently tested negative for HIV) you’ll be fine.

By: ctr

ctr — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:36:50 +0000

I have never thought of homosexuality as a strictly partisan issue. Perhaps there is more tendency at toleration among my liberal friends and acquaintances, but again, homosexuals should never confuse tolerance with approval. Since conservatives make up a larger percentage of the church-going public, they tend to be more pronounced in their public condemnation of homosexualtiy–which is their right in a democracy (the government cannot define for any religion or church what they will be allowed to pronounce as sinful)–though again, the conservatives I know favor toleration over outright repression. Perhaps it is a matter of liberals seeing homosexuality as an unfortunate choice, an abnormal and unhealthy lifestyle both mentally and physically, whereas conservatives are more likely to pronounce homosexuality additionally as degenerate and sinful. No one I know wants to return to the old laws making homosexuality a crime.

However, one thing is for sure: If homosexuals persist in this dangerous advocacy for polluting the blood supply, they will most surely lose any moral high ground they might have previously claimed in their struggle for tolerance. There are enough unknown risks which the best testing of blood does not detect for us to knowningly add another. To suddenly burden innocent men, women and children with a sudden lifetime sentence of HIV is both unconscionable and criminal. I hope this heartless and reckless advocacy comes from only a small number of the more extreme homosexual community.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:30 +0000

CRT: It’s not an insult to try to help someone else realize their true sexual identity. I’m really quite sad for StraightMarine, and I hope he can break down those old walls of homophobia that keep him so separate from his true self. But life is much harder as a gay American, as proven by the hateful comments following this article. Gays and allies only want a little tolerance, or less heated hatred towards them. And anyway, what does your sexual orientation even matter to anyone you’re NOT having sex with? I’ve always been curious why the Right wants to stomp out the rights of an entire group of people they’ll have no sexual contact with–and if they have no sexual contact, what does any other part of a gay man or woman’s life have to do with a straight man or woman’s life? What does anyone get out of telling other people their lifestyle is wrong? Where is the progress?

By: ctr

ctr — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:50:56 +0000

I find it ironic that homosexuals so often slander others as gay, that their nastiest insult seems inevitably to be that to insinuate that someone else is also gay, is perverse like themselves, is the worst they can say about an individual!
No matter what one’s view of homosexuality, there’s certainly nothing admirable or commendable in advocating anything that significantly increases the probablilty of tainting our blood supply. It’s a given that politics has always and will continue to spawns many kinds of scoundrels, but to be told that there are present-day politicians so low that they are ready to sell out a basic and much-needed protection of the public for a few campaign contributions and/or to keep from being blackmailed by the homosexual lobby seems beyond the pale. I don’t care how liberal one is, how can someone endanger his own children. Should not such ultraliberals rethink PC in this case, if that’s their excuse, before advocating something so ignoble and dangerous?

By: Whit

Whit — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:12:17 +0000

I am about two weeks shy of 85 and have had several transfusions in the last few years. I do not want to wonder if the blood I am receiving is safe so I support the restrictions.

As for the right to give blood, that is not a right, that is a privilege and no one should believe it is a right. The reason the homosexual wants to make it a right is not because he has compassion.

Ever look in a mirror? And what did you see? The homosexual looks into the mirror of straight lifestyle and loathes what he sees himself to be so he wants to destroy the mirror. Might do that but it will not change the image he was seeing in that mirror. We have far more tolerance for the homosexual than the homosexual has for the straight.

By: StraightMarine

StraightMarine — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:49:19 +0000

That’s okay, Sarah. Marines risk their lives fighting so useful idiots like yourself can spew false information and support deviant behavior in this great country of ours. Try some actual FACTS from the Center of Disease Control, exposing your lie:

“HIV Incidence Estimate

Incidence is the number of new HIV infections that occur during a given year. In 2008, CDC estimated that approximately 56,300 people were newly infected with HIV in 20061 (the most recent year that data are available). Over half (53%) of these new infections occurred in gay and bisexual men. Black/African American men and women were also strongly affected and were estimated to have an incidence rate than was 7 times as high as the incidence rate among whites. Visit the HIV incidence page for more details.”

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#incidence

Your insults that I might be gay is a typical Ad Hominem attack. Liberals always attack the messenger when they cannot win the debate. Homosexual behavior is an abomination to God, and I concur. Keep your sexual deviance in the bedroom and stop forcing it on society. Choosing the gay lifestyle is reckless and dangerous, and based on hedonistic lust, not love.