Wingnut tells High School kids that ‘Condoms cause Cancer’

An irate father is demanding that Bozeman High School present students with a rebuttal to what he called “extremely biased religious dogma” delivered by an assembly speaker who warned teens against the dangers of drugs, drinking and premarital sex.

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Wells demanded the school give equal time to rebut the “misinformation” his son heard: that condoms lead to cancer, that birth control pills are only 20 percent effective, that sexually transmitted diseases are spread by skin contact alone, that third-trimester fetuses can be aborted, that video games lead to homicide, that human papilloma virus can be transferred through condoms and that teens can achieve “second virginity” through abstinence.

She maintained it’s true that there are cancer-causing agents in latex condoms; that 80 percent of teenage girls who seek abortions are already on birth-control pills; and that human papilloma virus is small enough to pass through condoms. She said she does promote the idea of second virginity.

The school paid Holewinski paid $1,500 for her talk and expenses.