Can anyone truly deny we're on the path to a new Holocaust?

[HiPointDem]

150. you talked about 'official calls,' by which i understand representatives of the state speaking in

the name of the state.

dmitri kisilev is a news anchor & minor media functionary. the comments you refer to were made a year ago, & the fact that he's having to backpedal suggests his comments didn't represent any 'official' position. his comments also appear to have been misrepresented to some degree in western media.

A Russian TV news anchor who serves as the Deputy General Director of Russia’s state television and radio broadcasting company, RTR, is trying to minimize the damage his comments about gay people have recently caused. A video recorded last year, which came to worldwide attention this weekend is causing problems for Dmitri Kisilev.

But now Kisilev is backpedaling after the Russian government has come under international criticism for President Vladimir Putin’s new anti-gay laws, and concerns about the safety of LGBT athletes and allies during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The Russian state-financed news organization RT reports that in “a recent interview to Izvestia daily Dmitry Kiselev has finally explained what he meant by the controversial phrase.”

He pointed out that the Russian public actually failed to understand that in 2012 he was speaking about legal medical practices in the Russian Federation that unfortunately are still lagging behind internationally-recognized organ donation legislation.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/im-not-homophobic-i-have-gay-friends-says-russian-tv-anchor-who-called-gay-peoples-hearts-unsuitable-for-life/politics/2013/08/12/73013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNewCivilRightsMovement+%28The+New+Civil+Rights+Movement%29

Kiselev referred to the ‘MSM’ policy regulations of America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) available for open access on the agency’s official website.

http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/bloodbloodproducts/questionsaboutblood/ucm108186.htm

“Men who have had sex with other men (MSM), at any time since 1977 (the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States) are currently deferred as blood donors. This is because MSM are, as a group, at increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and certain other infections that can be transmitted by transfusion,” says the statement on FDA official website.

“FDA's deferral policy is based on the documented increased risk of certain transfusion transmissible infections, such as HIV, associated with male-to-male sex and is not based on any judgment concerning the donor's sexual orientation,” the website says.

Dmitry Kiselev pointed out that this regulation applies to any human biological material donation, including post-mortem donation of organs and body tissues.

http://rt.com/news/homophobia-russian-tv-fda-msm-389/