Digging around Nexis/Lexis:
CNN, March 30, 1996:
MILES O'BRIEN: All right. But let me ask you this - There's a lot of people who would suggest that creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. That the big bang- after all, something had to create the big bangs, perhaps some higher being, and there's a tremendous amount of scientific evidence that there was a big bang which started this whole process underway. You can't go along with that?
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
More evidence? Let's see. There's the Bible, which is scientifically rigorous. There's the animatronics at the Creation Museum. There's nothing more convincing than an exhibit featuring dinosaurs stalking a caveman. But wait, that has nothing to do with the Bible's creation theory. So scratch that. We're not even talking about evolution here.
We're talking about Christine O'Donnell saying that there's more evidence that the universe was created by god in six days, than the combined knowledge generated by the entire fields of physics and astronomy. Wow.
CNN, June 11, 1998
KING: Well, not strange to me, because I was a Baptist. I grew up in the Baptist Church, and I heard that before. But I like one statement he made when he said mutual, mutual submission. I think what throws us off is that the conditions under which this statement has been rendered tend to tell us that wives must still be under the domination of their husbands.
O'DONNELL: I must disagree there.
KING: Pardon? [...]
O'DONNELL: OK, this is not about merely a Baptist doctrine. This is a biblical doctrine. And the passage from the Bible the Baptist article is taken from talks about a submissive family. And yet, what the media seems to be reacting to is the word "submit" in the wives. But yet, even in, Mary, your introduction, you ignored or you left out where it says they graciously submit to a servant leader. And that is God's design for the family. It is not about dominating and it is not about being a slave to your husband.
So the difference between being a slave to her husband and not is the fact that the wife "graciously submits" to him? And if she doesn't, she's violating god's will and will go to hell?
Fox News, June 26, 2000:
(About a Gay Pride parade in NYC)
O'DONNELL: But let me tell you something! They -- homosexuals' special rights groups can get away with so much more than nobody else can!
COLMES: Well, what are they getting away with here, Christine? Tell me what you're seeing...
O'DONNELL: They're getting away with nudity!
FAY: Oh, right.
O'DONNELL: They're getting away with nudity! They're getting away with lasciviousness! They're getting away with perversion!
FAY: Oh, Christine...
O'DONNELL: They're getting away with blasphemy!
Naked people is blasphemy.
Throw in her disgust at masturbation and her attacks on co-ed college dormitories, and suddenly you have a picture of a joyless individual. That's fine, if she wants to carry on her depressingly prudish lifestyle, good for her. The problem is that, like all American Talibani, she is desperate to spread her freakish mores on the rest of us. So yeah, she's funny. But we can't lose sight of the fact that it's only funny as long as she and her ilk are out of power.
Update: Gasp!
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.
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