August 11

This just in:

Gay Hate Group Launches Campaign to Maintain Ban
Preventing Blood Donations by Homosexual Men

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has taken steps in the last year toward dismantling the ban on blood donations by homosexual men, which has been on the books since 1983. Some 40 members of U.S. Congress, led by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), last year called for the department to lift the ban. Last month the department announced that they had begun a comprehensive evaluation of doing just that.

The existing ban prohibits any man who has had sex with another man even once since 1977 from donating blood; this policy has even resulted in male donors who display "effeminate" mannerisms being turned away from donation centers (as was the case for 22-year-old Aaron Pace in Gary, Indiana, last month). Current law requires that all donated blood be tested for HIV and other infectious diseases. A 2010 study by the Williams Institute estimated that, if the gay blood donor ban would be lifted, the nation's blood supply would be increased by more than 200,000 pints per year.

However, an anti-gay group called Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) – officially designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center last year – has launched a campaign to uphold the federal ban against gay blood donors. AFTAH's campaign, called "Keep the Gay Blood Ban" or "KGB²," was announced a week ago. The campaign urges individuals to contact their senators and congressmen "to put the safety of Americans – and a pristine blood supply – ahead of the demands of the selfish Homosexuality Lobby."

With its new campaign, AFTAH vows to present the "harsh, shocking realities of gay sexual behavior," and is getting started with listing a number of "graphic and vulgar descriptions of homosexual acts." AFTAH lashes out against Kerry and Quigley for ignoring the fact that "male-on-male sex and the 'gay' sexual culture are extremely high-risk, due directly to the dangerously perverse and unsanitary acts – and unprecedented promiscuity — practiced by men who have sex with men." AFTAH recently lost its 501(c)3, tax-exempt organizational status when an investigation determined that it is a hate group. AFTAH is based in Naperville, Illinois.

To my readers: My personal take on this is that, if AFTAH is truly concerned for the safety of the public blood supply, they need to educate themselves to understand that all donated blood is currently tested for infectious diseases, including HIV. Further, they need to comprehend that not all homosexual men engage in penetrative sex (I myself am in this category), yet many heterosexuals do. There are far more promiscuous heterosexuals than homosexuals, because homosexuals account for only 5%-8% or so of the general population, and gay MEN would be about half of that number. So to achieve a goal of protecting the blood supply from infection by promiscuous behavior, they would need to go after promiscuous heterosexuals, especially those who practice anal sex. But that would take all the wind out of the sails of their hysterical hate campaign against gay men, which is the true heart and soul of their organization. They are attempting to wrap their hate in a do-gooder campaign.

Glad I got that off my chest, and we can move on to the photographs you came here to see.