Her words. Seriously.
MSNBC, Scarborough’s show, 11/13/2002:
NIES: I’m not concerned that they’re having sex. And I don’t think that anybody on this panel is condoning that it’s OK. The problem is, is they’re not properly educated of the consequences of having sex at a young age. That’s the issue. That’s what we need to talk about. I mean, I’m out on the road at colleges and high schools all across the country. I’m on tour right now, “Reality Bar Crawl.” I’m speaking to kids. I’m at high schools. I’m at colleges. And I know what they’re talking about, because they’re talking about it to me.
(CROSSTALK)
O’DONNELL: So, Eric, what do you tell them? Do you tell them safe sex?
(CROSSTALK)
NIES: Hold on. I’ll tell you what I tell them.
O’DONNELL: Do you tell them use birth control?
(CROSSTALK)
NIES: Yes, I tell them to have safe sex. I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect yourself when you’re going to have sex, because they’re having it anyway.
(CROSSTALK)
NIES: There’s nothing that you or me can do about it.
(CROSSTALK)
O’DONNELL: The sad reality is — yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not
(CROSSTALK)
NIES: You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?
O’DONNELL: Yes.
Nothing pisses me off more than prudish stuck up fundies minding everyone else’s business but their own. I am now going to dedicate myself to having as much casual safe sex as possible between now and election day. Which will probably be no sex, but I’ll be trying, and if I don’t succeed, then I will do something Christine really really hates, and that is …. masturbation!!! Oh no!!!!
Christine, you cannot legislate morality, no matter how much you want to. Mind your own fucking business, and perhaps if you did, you would have had time to get a real job (rather than living off the campaign donations of others, which is a form of welfare), and pay your debts and pay for your college education when you received it. And nothing is stopping Christine from living her life as she sees fit. If she thinks premarital sex is wrong, fine, she does not have to have it. If she thinks masturbation is wrong, fine, she can through away her dildos. If she thinks being gay is wrong, fine, she doesn’t have to be gay. If she thinks not being Christian is wrong, she can be a Christian.
She cannot force people to not have sex. She cannot force people to be Christian. She cannot force people to believe in what she belives. She cannot force people to be heterosexual.
But she wants to.
And that is all you need to know about Christine O’Donnell.