San Jose State University has suspended all blood drives on campus, claiming that the FDA’s rejection of gay men as donors is illegal:
In a controversial move believed to be a first by an American college, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because of a longstanding government policy that bars gay men from donating blood.
The policy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “affecting gay men violates our non-discrimination policy,” Kassing said in a lengthy e-mail sent to faculty, staff and students earlier this week.
The issue has cropped up on college campuses across the country, primarily as gay student groups protest blood drives. The American Red Cross and other national organizations that regularly run blood drives have also been pushing the FDA to revise the policy, which has been in place since AIDS first emerged in the United States in the early 1980s. State-of-the-art blood-screening techniques make the lifetime ban unnecessary, the groups say.
But a new generation of openly gay high school and college students is protesting what they say is a discriminatory policy that doesn’t take individual behavior into consideration.
This is an out-and-out lie. The policy — and the pre-donation questions it requires — don’t address sexual orientation. Blood banks don’t care whether you like boys or girls.
HIV — and other blood-borne diseases — are spread by actions, and that’s why donors are asked specific questions about their individual behavior. Have you recently gotten a tattoo or been accidentally stuck with a needle? You can’t give blood, because the action of non-medical needle use has been known to spread the virus. Have you traveled extensively in the UK? You can’t give blood, because the action of eating British beef has been known to spread mad cow disease. Have you had gay sex? You can’t give blood, because the action of taking it up the #2 chute is known to spread HIV.
And now, because a university wants to further legitimize sexual deviancy, the blood shortage will worsen.
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It is questionalble whether onyone would want Left Coast donated blood in any event.
This idiocy by the SJS University President merely represents the dishonest distructive anti-rational nature of the deviant behavior [homosexual] political lobby!
For those of you who say tolerating perverts [out of the closet] is being inclusive, tolorent and open minded, try thinking about reality.
Maybe one day the university president will be in need of a blood transfusion, and there won’t be any of his blood type available because he squelched blood drives. Would serve him right.
What about gerbils?
You know, a human habitrail? Would that disqualify?
Sanguiphobes!
Since when did ‘common sense’ have any bearing on college campuses?
#1 great post Tex06, I think I’ll pass on their blood anyway.
You can be a gay man all you want and donate blood. You just cant be a man who is having sex with other men and donate blood.
Just because you have a hankering to reenact Brokeback Mountain, doesnt mean you actually have a starring role.
Political correctness meets stupid reality.
I say, let the gay men who engage in gay activity give blood. Mark the bags as such. When these idiots need blood, they can get the politically correct blood and take their chances.
Good point #9. You can have your choice of blood types. A, A+, B, O, O-, and PC
Maybe they can get their blood from Berkley.
So I guess you missed this gem:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/liberal-city-takes-on-the-marine-corps/20080201075109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Semper fi Daniel. We’ve been talking about that for a couple days. Guess you missed it. What did you think I meant by my comment in #11, lol.
Heh, D’oh! Yeah… what a bunch of screwballs. Cut them loose from the Union, charge them out the ass for their power and water… and when they can’t pay… send in the Marines.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t they test donated blood for all that stuff anyway? And if so then why reject it?