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Mike Pence claims condoms are too modern, and too liberal.
Donald Trumps running mate is a dangerous Christian extremist who wants creationism taught in public schools and believes the government should pay for gay conversion therapy.
In addition, in 2015, as Governor of Indiana, Pence allowed an HIV outbreak to spread, choosing prayer over a clean needle exchange.
But perhaps one of the most idiotic claims made by Pence is that condoms are too modern, too liberal, and offer a poor defense against sexually transmitted infections and diseases.
Pences bizarre and unsubstantiated claims concerning condoms came in 2002, in response to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell saying in an MTV forum that sexually active young people should protect themselves with condoms.
At the time Powell said:
I think its important for young people, especially, to protect themselves from the possibility of acquiring any sexually transmitted disease, but especially to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS, which is a plague that is upon the face of the earth.
In an interview with CNN, while advocating for abstinence only sex education, Pence said Powells call for condom use could mislead millions of young people and put their lives at risk.
Pence told CNNs Wolf Blitzer that it was a sad day because Powell had suggested condoms over abstinence:
Well, Wolf, I think it was given the enormous stature that Colin Powell rightly has, not only in America but in the world community it was a sad day. I dont think any administration has had a worse day since boxers and briefs on MTV. And the truth is that Colin Powell had an opportunity here to reaffirm this presidents commitment to abstinence as the best choice for our young people, and he chose not to do that in the first instance, but and so I think its very sad.
The other part is that, frankly, condoms are a very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases, and in that sense, Wolf, this was the secretary of state may be inadvertently misleading millions of young people and endangering lives.
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)take cold showers.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028061211
Sticking him on the ticket along with putting religious right incoherence in the platform about gay people and declaring internet porn a "public health crisis" is a transparent attempt to bring out the GOP's last remaining reliable demographic- culture in crisis crusading churchy folk.
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(1,142 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)In a year where the guy at the head of the ticket wasn't such a spectacular dumpster fire himself, we'd probably be spending more time on it.
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)ananda
(28,867 posts)....
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)The stone age!
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)hlthe2b
(102,297 posts)Retrograde
(10,137 posts)Condoms go a lot further back then that, having previously been made of animal gut or silk. There's speculation that Shakespeare's father made them as a side to his glove trade, back in the mid 1500s.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)And in third place:
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Don't be so uptight. We know you must have some major skeletons in your neatly organized closet.
spanone
(135,846 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)If his master had used them, he wouldn't have got the clap during the Vietnam war.
yup
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)axiom3
(54 posts)The last time I checked, condoms have a 88%-98% success rate when it comes to practicing safe sex. Keep in mind, Pence is the same buffoon who argued that cigarettes don't cause cancer. Just what was Trump thinking when he picked this tool as his VP? He's hated even in his home state.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Next time he's sick, he can opt for leeches, poultices and soothsayers. Maybe sacrifice a few farm animals and read their intestines!
area51
(11,912 posts)I've heard they're quite old.