AFA's Bryan Fischer Calls Homosexuality a 'Deathstyle', Says Blood Ban Proves Contact with Gays is Dangerous: VIDEO

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (last year classified an official 'hate group' by the SPLC) discussed CPAC's rejection of gay conservative group GOProud on his radio show, and their participation last year, which caused several other groups (many of which were also, like the Family Research Council, classified hate groups) to boycott the conservative confab.

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Says Fischer:

"Homosexuality is not a conservative value." GOProud - their agenda is to put open homosexuals in the military and promote gay marriage. So they are as relentless and as far left as you can get on the issues of human sexuality. And we said look if CPAC is going to treat that as a conservative position we're not going to be a part of this thing."

Fischer then goes on to cite the government's ban on blood donation from gays as the reason conservatives, or anyone for that matter, should not even have contact with homosexuals:

"I think this is one of the reasons where our argument is infallible...is the danger that homosexual contact imposes to human health. I gave blood here several weeks ago and I was asked three times...have you as a male ever had sex with another male one time since 1977. If I had answered yes, I would not have been able to give blood.  The risk to the nation's blood supply is so severe that the risk that active homosexuals pose to the nation's health, to the nation's blood supply is so severe that if a man has had sex even one solitary time since 1977 - cannot donate blood. That, ladies and gentleman, tells you all you need to know."

Fischer then goes on to cite the recent HIV study from the CDC and uses it to stoke racial homophobia of blacks against gays:

"If you care about minorities, then it's especially urgent that we stop legitimizing this lifestyle...If you have any compassion for the African-American community at all then you want this alarm to be sounded throughout the black community. It's not a lifestyle. It's a death-style."

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Yet mainstream news organizations continue to pander to these hate groups.

The New York Times' Erick Eckholm yesterday wrote an article on the AFA and its upcoming prayer rally this weekend, 'The Response'. Eckholm was slammed yesterday by GLAAD for adopting the AFA's hate language in characterizing some of its arguments. They write:

Not once does Eckholm indicate that perhaps non-liberals might also disagree with the assertion that LGBT people want to put Christians in “re-education camps” or that “the number one class of people who are committing hate crimes today are homosexual activists” (both claims made by Fischer). Nor does he mention that the “liberal critics” who designated AFA as a hate group are actually the widely respected Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Gay Men Can Now Give Blood in the UK...As Long As They Haven't Had Sex for 10 Years

The ban on blood donation by gay men in the UK is being lifted over concerns that it could be in violation of the Equality Act. However, there is one stipulation:

However, gay men will only be permitted to donate if they have not had sexual intercourse for a decade. Homosexuals who are or have recently been sexually active will continue to be barred from giving blood.

Anne Milton, the public health minister, is expected to announce the changes within weeks and she is understood to be backed by Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, and Lynne Featherstone, the Equalities Minister.

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The changes were instigated by Sabto, the advisory committee on the safety of blood, tissues and organs, which had concluded that if the ban were replaced by a new rule preventing gay men from giving blood for five years after having sex with another man, the risk of HIV reaching the blood supply would go up by less than 5%.

It is estimated that this figure would halve if the “deferral” period were increased to 10 years, so ministers backed this option. The 10-year delay also ensures that people who are not aware they have contracted HIV do not pass it on accidentally.

Pink News adds: "86,500 people in the UK have HIV. 42 per cent are gay men, 54 per cent are heterosexuals, the majority of whom are Africans according to the Terrance Higgins Trust A government source told the newspaper: 'A complete ban is unfair and discriminatory but we need to protect public health, so the 10-year rule is what is being considered.'"

Canadian Court Upholds Ban on Gay Blood Donation

A court in Ontario, Canada has ruled against a man challenging Canadian Blood Services' ban on gay blood donation, CTV reports:

"In a ruling released on Thursday, the Ontario Superior Court dismissed a constitutional challenge from a man who argued the policy violated his rights, finding that Charter of Rights does not apply to the blood agency's policies, because it is not a government entity. The ruling stems from a case that began with Canadian Blood Services suing a gay man named Kyle Freeman, who lied about his sexual status when he donated blood. Freeman had syphilis when he donated blood, which prompted the agency to sue. Freeman argued he lied because the policy banning gay men from donating wasn't scientifically justified and violated his rights. He launched a counterclaim under the Charter. But on Thursday, the court dismissed the challenge, finding Freeman liable for $10,000 for negligent misrepresentation."

The current policy is reported as follows:

"Intravenous drug users, people who may have been exposed to Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (mad cow disease), people who have exchanged money for sex or drugs are all permanently banned. Currently, men who had sex with men from 1977 onwards (the year estimated as the start of the AIDS epidemic) also face 'indefinite deferrals' from donations."

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #682

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That's Bullshit: Ban on Gay Blood Donation

Here's a small nugget of YouTubian brilliance.

Sam Seder rips the Obama administration a new one on the gay blood ban and its gay rights record.

"President Obama, if I may — what do you possibly gain by trampling the civil rights of gay and lesbian Americans?...I'm sorry, but pandering to people who think you were born in Kenya by crapping all over a community of people who campaigned for you, knocked on doors, raised money for you, and you won't even allow them the dignity of donating blood? That's bullshit."

(via Good As You)

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