Antigay lawmakers in Oklahoma are switching up their strategy. If they can’t ban same-sex marriage, then they’re going to try and ban anyone with an incurable STD from obtaining a marriage license. Because everyone knows gay people are crawling with STDs.
Senate bill 773 would require anyone seeking to get married in the Sooner State to first submit a blood test proving they didn’t have any STDs.
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“The State Board of Health shall require a blood test for the discovery of syphilis and other communicable or infectious diseases prior to the issuance of a marriage license,” the bill reads.
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The bill goes on to say that couples with at least one partner who suffers from an incurable STD, like, you know, HIV/AIDS, will be forbidden from getting married.
The bill was authored by Sen. Anthony Sykes, who claims the law is a way of protecting unsuspecting spouses-to-be from catching communicable or infectious diseases. It’s also a way, he says, for people who may not know they have an STD to learn so they can seek the appropriate treatments.
Riiiight.
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But Shannon Hall, executive director of Tulsa Cares, an organization that provides services to people living with HIV/AIDS in Tulsa, disagrees. He told Fox 23-TV that the bill not only violates patient privacy laws, but it perpetuates the negative stigma surrounding HIV and other STDs.
The bill also seems t0 ignore the Americans With Disabilities Act, which states that people living with HIV/AIDS are a protected class and cannot be subjected to undue discrimination. Like, say, being denied the opportunity to marry to person they love.
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Justin Jacobs
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André Carlo Pretorius
Xzamilio
Really? So basically, it would be no marriage for the small percentage of gay men with HIV/AIDS, and then the other 60 something percent of the rest of the population living with herpes. Ain’t that an “incurable STD”?
Michael Edmonds
Where’s that Tornado when you need it
Sweetie Pie
They should demand DNA test to prove they are not marrying their brothers and sisters as well
Stache
Yes because these bigots are only interested in the health and welfare of gay people. LMAO.
captainburrito
These laws did exist historically in some states. Obviously the motivations this time are a bit different. Part of me thinks this is a good idea though…
Reinder Van Wier
So people stop testing themselves… Great plan!
Rogelio Lopez
Idiots !
Alexis Barros
Says the party of “less government” ð???
Kevin J Desmond
So I guess just about everybody there won’t be able to marry then ?
Maxie Grant
If I were in OK, I would arrange for myself to pay zero taxes to the state. Ever. I mean, what do LGBT people give that money for, if it’s used to ASSAULT them with this kind of bullshit?
Stacy Imler
OK….. what the hell is up???? Y’all need to rise up and make some noise. I’ll help.
greatgirl
What? In order to comment on this proposal, I registered an account on queerty. I have to say that they are stupid. Why not let those people who have STDs marry with each other? There are already some dating sites for people with STDs like positivefish.
You guys make the life of those people with STDs even harder!
John Malin
The Oklahoma legislature has third stage syphilis of the brains, ban them from reproducing!
Zach Bruno
LOL. fools.
GG
So three things:
1) As Xzamilio pointed out, there are many people with herpes (which is in fact incurable and, yes, the CDC classifies herpes as an STD) and the vast majority of them are heterosexual;
2) If a couple takes these tests and discovers they have an STD, what’s stopping them from marrying in another state (such as Nevada)? I saw nothing in the proposed legislation that invalidates within OK marriages performed outside of OK;
3) This will never stand up to judicial scrutiny — but by all means, OK, let’s not let that fact nor the money spent on the resulting lawsuits sway you from your un-American efforts to hate on, ostracize, persecute, and interfere with fellow Americans’ pursuit of happiness.
If there were a test devised, it should be a test to bar idiots with un-American views from holding public office.
Luis H. Lopez
Ban heterosexuals? They will know how gays feel for decades !
Sondi Moore
Boy are they going to be surprised when all those men and women can’t pass the “I’m clean” test, including grandma and grandpa. Or their own kids, grand kids.
Scott McIntosh
Do legislators in the USA realise that they are making their country the laughing stock of the world? Americans seem to be proud of the Revolutionary Mth that surrounds your independence – why don’t you rise up and throw these people out of your legislatures, out of City Halls and off School Boards?
Michael Golojuch Jr
Well there goes most the straight kids since their sex education is non-existent.
Brian JC Kneeland
They should check IQ’s TOO!
Sylvia Forte
Drinking water polluted by fracking?
CTE from daily earthquakes?
Brain damage?
Bauhaus
@captainburrito:
Which part of you, the festering boil on your butt?
1898
Would this apply to HPV too? Something like 50% of heterosexual adult males are positive for HPV, and that’s incurable isn’t it?
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