FDA! No gay sperm donations allowed.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Bull****, Cal.
The majority here, for right ot wrong, labe me a religious right winger, and I have said time and again that Gays don't choose.

I'll say this, I get tired of Gays, Blacks, New Zealanders, whomever thinking it's terrible to generalize about their specific group, but quite all right to generalize about others.

You do that, you can go **** yourself as far as I'm concerned.

There's a difference between a generalization and a blanket statement, and there's also a difference between what we each mean by "religious right". To clarify - I meant to say that right-wing christians generally consider homosexuality to be a choice. Whether you choose to wear the "religious right wing" label is up to you.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Y'all. A contraction for you all. All of you.
Damned prune picker.

, I was patting myself on the back for resisting making that correction.

To your other comment, like I told Japher, you might be surprised. I'd actually call myself a Republican if they'd jettison the Robertson wing.

[Last Conformist]

I don't know the routines for semen, but all donated blood is tested for HIV. The catch is that tests aren't 100% reliable, which means that excluding high risk groups - and gay men are one for HIV - makes perfect sense.

[Thorn]

How about blacks? They have a higher rate of HIV then whites, So shouldn't we exclude them? Chew on that.

[Japher]

I don't know the routines for semen, but all donated blood is tested for HIV. The catch is that tests aren't 100% reliable, which means that excluding high risk groups - and gay men are one for HIV - makes perfect sense.

Yes, and blood is not going to be used for the purpose of replication.

Thorn: please don't use "chew" in a context that refers to sperm

[Last Conformist]

BTW, where the heck did the notion come that donating blood or sperm is some kind of right?

[MrFun]

Fine -- following the logic in your question Last, why can't we separate such things by race if it's not a right?

[SlowwHand]

Whoa! Last Conformist comes up with a prickly question.
We'll see if that gets asterisked or not.

[Japher]

BTW, where the heck did the notion come that donating blood or sperm is some kind of right?

Giving blood is not a right. My mom can't give because she had scarlet fever, they wouldn't take mine for a time because I had a tattoo.

As for sperm? As long as the keep on paying people for it then they have to take it from anyone: EOE.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Whoa! Last Conformist comes up with a prickly question.
We'll see if that gets asterisked or not.

I already challenged it.

[Japher]

why can't we separate such things by race if it's not a right?

because pinko liberals will lable that racist, and for some reasont that is wrong according to them.

[MrFun]

It IS wrong!


Where is the justice in making such inane distinctions as race or sexual orientation when there is no NEED for it?



Financial reasons is BS.

[SlowwHand]

I went the adjective, MrFun.

[SlowwHand]

I meant.


whew.

[MrFun]

huh??