Improper partner.Next time you pop a Viagra, think of Lou Sheldon. The chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition The Traditional Values Coalition is a Christian Right organization that claims to represent over 43,000 conservative Christian churches throughout the United States of America. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. , a religious conservative group, scolded Bob Dole in a letter for narrating a television ad touting the anti-impotency drug. Sheldon is steamed that the former GOP senator uses the word partner instead of spouse in describing the drug's benefits because the term could be interpreted to include same-sex partners same-sex partner Social medicine A domestic partner of the same genotypic sex. See Homosexual. or unmarried opposite-sex partners. "You know, it's a little embarrassing to talk about [erectile dysfunction Erectile Dysfunction Definition Erectile dysfunction (ED), formerly known as impotence, is the inability to achieve or maintain an erection long enough to engage in sexual intercourse. ], but it's so important to millions of men and their partners that I decided to talk about it publicly," Dole says in the ad, which was sponsored by Pfizer Inc., the maker of Viagra. "The use of the word `partner' is problematic," Sheldon said in his letter to Dole. "It is inconsistent with the common sense, traditional values Traditional values refer to those beliefs, moral codes, and mores that are passed down from generation to generation within a culture, subculture or community. Since the late 1970s in the U.S. of Bob and Elizabeth Dole that Americans know." |
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