Bullying Is SO Gay

An ABC News article tells us that a conservative Christian activist organization says "anti-bullying programs push gay agenda".  The article goes on to say that the reason gay rights groups' advocate anti-bullying in schools is to promote homosexuality to children.  The allegation is that anti-bullying campaigning pushes political agenda towards same-sex marriage and other gay rights.

Click here to read the whole article.

"Concerned about homosexual advocacy in your child's school? You've come to the right place. TrueTolerance.org helps you respond in a loving and fact-based way."  Please visit to get a taste of the mindless b*@!$#it this "organization" (cough-OCCULT-cough) has to feed.

Heterosexual Blood Saves Lives! Donate Today, If You're Not Gay!

Before the rant, just a few facts about the need for blood donations:

More than 4.5 million patients need blood transfusions each year in the U.S. and Canada.

Someone needs blood every two seconds.

Only 38% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood – less than 10 percent do annually.

About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood.

One pint of blood can save up to three lives.

Current FDA rules dictate that any man who has had sex with another man since 1977  cannot donate.

This rule was adopted in the 80s, before the existence of tests capable of identifying HIV-positive blood. 

about 219,000 more pints of blood could be available each year if the FDA lifted the ban. 

219,000 pints of blood could save 657,000 lives.

(info taken from America's Blood Centers and  an article from CNN

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Under present law, uninfected, healthy gays are unable to donate blood.  This is because the HIV epidemic previously infected a large gay community, and gays were the main source and holders of the HIV virus.  Not allowing gays to donate blood in the early 1980s was a safe and rational decision, one that I am sure has prevented those in need of blood transfusions from receiving the virus through their transfusions.  However, it is not 1983.  There are now tests capable of identifying HIV-positive blood, yet, last June gays were again denied the right to save lives and the ban was upheld.

       The Red Cross criticized this decision and the policy as "medically and scientifically unwarranted."

          Statistics show that the largest portion of people diagnosed and living with an AIDS diagnosis are African American.  Statistics from this year also show that the majority of those living with AIDS were infected through male-to-male contact.  However, African Americans are eligible to donate blood.  Imagine if they weren't?  If gays and African Americans both could not donate blood and this right could only be given to an elite group of chosen saviors, many, many people would be unable to get the transfusions they need.

     This ban is very clearly prejudiced.  I hope that if I am ever in need of a blood transfusion, I will be given the option to accept disease-free, gay blood, rather than die without it.-Besides being flawed in its prejudice, the system is also flawed in other manners.  All men are asked, before donating, if they have had sexual contact with another man.  What if they lie?  What if a closeted gay wants to save 3 lives and is HIV-free?  The liars are eligible to give blood.  So, if you want to donate, and you're gay, all you have to do is LOOK straight and lie.  What a system.

DADT POLICY REPEALED

"DON'T ASK DON'T TELL" POLICY RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2010!

+1 for the gays! 

Historical Injustice

     The U.S. Constitution once held that blacks counted for 3/5 of a person.  The United States stands alone as the only country on our Earth that continues to sentence juveniles to execution.  During colonial times, those who did not attend Sunday masses would be sentenced to death and other religious persecutions. Supposed 'witches' would be burned alive, townspeople tortured to death for stealing a vegetable.  Until 1986, being gay was considered a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of  Mental Disorders (DSM).  Today, in 2010, gays are not allowed to be married.

      There have been times in our past when it has been wrong to be black, female, Jewish, non-religious--different.  
For the most part, many of these prejudices remain a part of our past, especially from a legal point of view.
     However, many lives were lost or ruined before we changed our ways.  Slaves have died, women oppressed, young girls burned at a stake for practicing witchcraft, these are all mistakes we have made as a country that can never be undone.  Yes, we have moved on from them, but how many lives are lost or ruined before something is deemed unconstitutional?  Too many have experienced wrongdoing in our precious Land of the Free.
      Why aren't we getting these memos on time?  Aren't we supposed to be civilized? It's 2010.  We've been wrong before.  We've seen it happen, we've seen these changes occur.  Yet, we cannot get these lives back.   Slavery and religious persecution were unconstitutional way before we recognized them legally as such, and these wrongdoings can never be compensated for. Murder is wrong whether illegal or not.  We know these things innately.  And despite this, we emotionally, physically, and irrationally maltreat those who are our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and friends for nothing more than being exactly who they are.  We cannot undo the things we've done.   However, we can learn from them.  Or can we?  Are we?
      We've outlawed any kind of persecution in the workplace based on sex, race, gender and orientation.  And yet gays continue to be scrutinized by this country as a whole.  We've got a history of bad mistakes not too far behind us.  Let's remember the Civil Rights Movement did not take place all too long ago.  Blacks have fairly newly been created equal.  And they, get this, can even be married.  We're getting closer; you're beginning to catch on, America.  Now, in 2010, all men are created equal -- except for the gay ones.  It's unfair, it's disgusting, and it's wrong.  That's a fact.  And maybe in the next ten or twenty or fifty years, the law will agree.
    
      Prejudice never dies, it merely changes venues.  Welcome to the Free World.