Taiwanese Catholics angry over Anti-AIDS Campaign

[Schadenfroh]

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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-AIDS campaign ad featuring a smiling nun holding a condom after it sparked an outcry from Roman Catholics, local media said on Wednesday.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

 

[imported_Tick]

Isn't...

That...

SPECIAL!

 

[PingSpike]

The alternate ad was just a picture of a nun with a condom stretched over her head and the caption "Cover your head!"

 

[Shawn]

haha, that would have been funny.

 

[bandana163]

Oh, the drama...

 

[chrisms]

Your title is misleading. They are angry at the anti-AIDS campaign for using an image of a nun with a condom, they aren't angry over the anti-AIDS campaign.