Bloody ridiculous! We’ve heard a lot of arguments against granting gay people equal rights, but this one’s the most bizarre.
Conservative commentator Bryan Fischer of Renew America thinks the FDA’s gay blood ban should be evidence enough as to why Congress should squash ENDA:
According to the FDA, which, by the way, is not a right-wing think tank, men who have had sex with men since 1977 have a risk of contracting HIV that is 60 times higher than the general population. Further, homosexuals are about 5-6 times more likely to be infected with the Hepatitis B virus than the general population.
These are staggering and alarming numbers, and make the objective observer wonder why anyone – especially Congress – would go out of its way to provide special workplace rights to those who engage in dangerous behavior that threatens the health of the American people.
That’s the most idiotic thing we’ve ever heard. Does this man seriously think that someone’s HIV status – or, rather, odds of HIV infection – should preclude them from equal rights. Conservatives sure have demented world views.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
If you read “My Struggle” (Mein Kampf) in the twenties, you (a German national) might have thought that this Austrian immigrant was insignificant and his hatred for Hebraic Germans was absolutely without merit to the arguements made against that minority population…integrated into society by culture and marriage unlike Jews in Russia or Eastern European nations.
In the work, Adolf Hitler, edited by university graduate Rudolf Hess, the future totalitarian Leader of the German People left no illusion about his true intent…full and absolute extermination. The Wansee Conference and the Final Solution was merely the fleshing out on how they would become “insignificant non-persons.”
You (the German Jew) might have scoffed at that crazy little man in 1929 but ten years later, was in cattle cars heading to Auschwitz and extermination.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
As it was said of the ACT UP……Silence = Death
SeaFlood
… this is kinda a no-brainer… at least to me. What he is saying, is that there is no need for ENDA because all faggots will be dead (from HIV).
… can we consider that hate speech and have him arrested?
*fumes*
Fucker.
MeDueleLaCabeza
This is the sort of idiocy that illustrates exactly why we need ENDA.
You routinely hear these people cite HIV/AIDS as a reason to deny GLBT people the most basic rights. I wonder what sort of response conservatives would give if somebody said, “OK, then what about the lesbians? Can we protect them, given their relatively low risk of contracting HIV?”
Asshats.
Alan down in Florida
This just shows why it is so important, especially in light of advanced screening accuracy. that we need to overturn this vile FDA ruling which, when initiated, might have been beneficial but is now only discriminatory.