The Nun’s Story

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-AIDS
campaign ad featuring a smiling nun holding a condom after it sparked
an outcry from Roman Catholics, local media said on Wednesday.

The poster, which shows the nun holding the condom with both hands and
saying "Although I don’t need one, even I know," had been removed
from all condom machines in Taipei hospitals, subway stations and elsewhere.

"
As a nun, I can’t agree with their way of expressing things," a church
spokeswoman said Wednesday. "This is a serious insult."

Nuns take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the Vatican considers
all forms of contraception a sin.

Local media said the plan had been to use someone with a "positive
image" to promote the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

There are about 300,000 Catholics on the island of 23 million people.

story from Reuters