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  • 2016-08-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Mike Pence Say 'Condoms Are Too Modern and Liberal'? (en)
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  • On 11 August 2016 the Patheos blog published an item titled Mike Pence: Condoms Are Too Modern reporting that the Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential nominee had dismissed the prophylactic devices as too modern and too liberal: The comments Pence (then a Congressman) actually made in this regard stemmed from a February 2002 CNN panel discussion about abstinence education. Anchor Wolf Blitzer opened the segment by explaining a current controversy over remarks made by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just appeared on MTV and responded as follows when asked about the Pope's stance on condom usage by Catholics: Blitzer introduced his panelists and asked for their comments about what appeared to be a difference in position between Powell and then-President George W. Bush on the matter of science-based sex education: Pence replied by reiterating the Bush administration's advocacy of abstinence education and challenging Secretary Powell's endorsement of condom usage as effective protection against sexually transmitted diseases: Reps. Pence and Schakowsky continued to debate abstinence education and the efficacy of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted diseases: Rating this claim comes down to a matter of semantics. Yes, Mike Pence used the words too modern and liberal during the course of a discussion that encompassed condom use and stated that condoms are very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases. However, he technically didn't apply the words modern and liberal to condoms themselves (and wasn't referencing them as a birth control device); rather, he described Colin Powell's advocacy of condom use as a too modern and liberal answer to the problem of preventing sexually transmitted diseases. (en)
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