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Just before 4 p.m. on June 20, Indiana University instructor Uri Horesh walked into a Red Cross bloodmobile outside Ballantine Hall. When he left less than an hour later, he was under arrest. Horesh was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting law enforcement and battery after challenging a policy that prevents him from donating blood because he is gay. The Red Cross doesn’t accept blood donations from men who admit to having had sex with other men since 1977. That policy is in line with a regulation from the Food and Drug Administration that was written as a response to outbreaks of HIV. But Horesh says those rules are in conflict with IU’s nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. WFHB correspondent Joe Crawford spoke with Horesh about the issue for today’s WFHB feature.
