Gay Activist Risk Your Life

My friend sent me a fairly interesting article on an apparent movement happening in the gay community and culture.

The article was posted in TownHall, which is a pretty conservative site. Unfortunately, the article has such a heavy religious slant that it's hard to read through it and extrapolate meaningful information from the religious overtones. You can read the original article here.

But I stuck with it and was fairly appalled at what I read. The gist of the article is that even though the FDA and CDC have strong evidence supporting a higher rate of diseases in gay males (gay) activists are fighting to remove bans on gay males from donating blood.

From the article:

Current U.S. health regulations prohibit men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) categorically confirm that if MSM were permitted to give blood, the general population would be placed at risk.

According to the FDA, MSM “have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population, 800 times higher than first time blood donors and 8,000 times higher than repeat blood donors (American Red Cross).

“[MSM] also have an increased risk of having other infections that can be transmitted to others by blood transfusion. For example, infection with the Hepatitis B virus is about 5-6 times more common, and Hepatitis C virus infections are about 2 times more common in [MSM] than in the general population,” according to the FDA.

A recent CDC study rocked the homosexual community in finding that although MSM comprise only one-to-two percent of the population, they account for an epidemic 64 percent of all syphilis cases.

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, is demanding that the ban be lifted and that gays be allowed to donate blood. This is a very dangerous and selfish position. I don't have a problem with people being gay if that's what they want to do, but I don't think it's proper for someone to intentionally risk my life to get a point or personal agenda across.

According to the article homosexual militants have been protesting their bans by deliberately trying to fill blood banks with their blood. Right now, they don't even know how much blood is infected.

That's not a protest. That's a direct attack on the health care system and other human beings. I am astonished that people would deliberately place other people's lives at risk by ruining the blood supply that could save their life and possibly infecting them.