Let's Not Forget the Other Scandalous Gay Ban
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Namely, the gay blood ban:
"Better no blood than gay blood" is a worse disgrace of bigoted illogic than "undermines unit cohesion." And people may well start dying from it.
City blood supplies have dropped to dangerously low levels, raising concern that hospitals do not have enough blood to cope with a major emergency, blood donation officials warn.The shortages are also partly due to an ignorant, purely political policy that ignores the realities of the blood shortage and medical science in favor of the hysteria-pandering fiction that gay blood is an especial threat to public health.
"We are down to a one-day supply in some of the critical areas like Type O Negative," said Robert L. Jones, president of the New York Blood Center. "When it gets down to that point hospitals feel like they don't have enough even for routine procedures."
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"We need everybody who possibly can -- between the ages of 16 and 75 -- to step forward and donate blood," said Jones. "Without their help we do not have a blood supply."
"Better no blood than gay blood" is a worse disgrace of bigoted illogic than "undermines unit cohesion." And people may well start dying from it.
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Posted by Kip on
24 July 2007
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