{"id":470,"date":"2005-08-24T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/24\/the-nuns-story\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:50:08","slug":"the-nuns-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/24\/the-nuns-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nun’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-AIDS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

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

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

Nuns take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the Vatican considers
\n all forms of contraception a sin.<\/p>\n

Local media said the plan had been to use someone with a "positive
\n image" to promote the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.<\/p>\n

There are about 300,000 Catholics on the island of 23 million people.<\/p>\n

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