Of gays and blood donation

“The blood donation center wishes to announce to the public that it will henceforth not accept blood donations from the homosexual community”. This has got to be the most stupid piece of legislation I have heard of, this century.

It’s little comforting to know that our government has since distanced itself from this; official word is that this spectacular boo-boo is a brainchild of the Geneva based World Health Organisation (WHO). So much for the Geneva Convention. According to this piece of legislation, everyone is free to donate blood, all except members of the gay community.

Now this is the most interesting part; there is a worldwide acute shortage of blood at the moment, so we are told. Blood donation agencies are forever on their knees asking people, even school children, to donate blood.

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