ABC's and AIDS: Condom Nation?
Chris Hickey Wednesday, 1 September 2004
As an undergraduate, I attended one of those institutions that, over the course of the twentieth century, had slowly transformed itself from a clergy-training center for traditional mainline Protestants to a modern, secular liberal arts college, with only the weakest of ties to its denominational history. While the college's motto may have remained "Christ and Culture," in 1988, students were likely to be more passionate about Coors and condoms. Nonetheless, during my freshman year, the forces of mainline Protestantism and the forces of modern secular pragmatism squared off in what students dubbed the "Christ and Condoms" debacle. The alliances arrayed were not surprising, and neither was the outcome: the largely secularist administration (who wanted condom machines installed in dorms) won out over the loyal (and slowly dying) opposition, traditionalist American Baptists.
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