Posts Tagged ‘ Gay Culture War ’

U.S. Senators Call for End to Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood

Mar 5th, 2010 | By Trevor Ashley, Contributor | Category: Lead Story, National News

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined 17 U.S. senators in calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to overturn a ban on gay men donating blood. Many states criminalize gay men donating blood. The senators said that while hospitals and emergency rooms are in urgent need of blood products, “healthy blood donors are turned away every day due to an antiquated policy and our blood supply is not necessarily any safer for it.”

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Pennsylvania Senator proposes constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage; culture war continues

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Michael Thomas, Kentucky Political Editor & Senior Contributor | Category: National News

Pennsylvania Senator John Eichelberger (R – Bedford, Blair, Fulton, Huntingdon and Mifflin) has introduced Senate Bill 707 to add an Commonwealth’s Constitution that reads: “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid and recognized as a marriage in this Commonwealth.” The gay and lesbian culture war continues across the United States, which some are now referring to the “Divided States of America.”

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