Things That Make You Go GRRRRR!

What the hell is this?

Am I the only one out there who doesn't completely buy that the exclusion of Gay men is based solely on the fact that they have a higher risk of HIV? I can't help but think that some of the socially conservative people out there are actually starting to believe that a predisposition to homosexuality can be something found in one's genes. Following the logic train on down the track, if homosexuality is hereditary, and it is currently impossible for gay men to impregnate each other, then maybe the best way to stop the "spread" of homosexuality is to prevent gay men from donating sperm.

Honestly, it seems to me that the whole HIV explanation is really just a straw man argument used to justify what is really a social agenda type policy. Conversely, if HIV is the true reason for the policy, is the FDA starting down some sort of slipery slope. . .. one that could be used to justify even further social agenda type policies. For example, Africans have by far the largest percentage of overall HIV cases worldwide, so how long will it be before the FDA disallows sperm donation from blacks using similar "statistics".

I'm intrigued to see if they can actually provide any information on how many actual cases of HIV infection via sperm donation have happened, homosexual or not. Odds are, there either are no such cases, or the sample size is extremely small. Yet, this is the same FDA that has recently approved several drugs without proper testing, resulting in multiple deaths from improperly explored side effects. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and I don't think it's the fish.