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Naperville Anti-Gay Group Pushes to Keep Gay Blood Ban
Huffington Post is reporting that the organization has launched a new campaign, the "Keep the Gay Blood Ban."
A Naperville-based anti-gay organization is back in the news as it supports a ban on blood donations from homosexuals.
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) has a new campaign called "Keep the Gay Blood Ban" or "KGB²," which was announced last Friday, according to a story in the Huffington Post.
The organization lost its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The Huffington Post story says that the group is asking Congress to investigate further the health hazards of homosexuality, just as Congress did with smoking.
In 2010, about 40 members of the U.S. Congress called for an end to the ban and the leader of AFTAH has been outspoken against the leaders of the movement to end the ban, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.)
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The existing ban prohibits any man who has sex with another man even once since 1977 from donating blood and has sometimes resulted in donors who are "effeminate" being turned away from donation centers.
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