Christine O'Donnell's 10 Most Controversial Statements

In the weeks since she clinched a surprise victory over GOP veteran Mike Castle for Delaware's Republican Senate nomination, Christine O'Donnell has faced intense public scrutiny about her past - and some of her more controversial past statements. CBSNews.com presents some of the most controversial skeletons in Christine O'Donnell's rhetorical closet.

Christine O'Donnell on Adultery

"We have god-given sexual desires and we need to understand them and preserve them to be used in god's appropriate context. We need to address sexuality with young people and masturbation is part of sexuality - but it is important to discuss this from a moral point of view...The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!... You're gonna be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture..." - On MTV, 1996

Christine O'Donnell on Gays

"People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder."
- To Wilmington News Journal reporter Victor Greto, 2006

Christine O'Donnell on Women in the Military

"By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense... And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed."
- C-SPAN, 1995

Christine O'Donnell "Dabbled into Witchcraft"

"I dabbled into witchcraft -- I never joined a coven. But I did, I did... One of my first dates with a witch was on a Satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that... We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a Satanic altar."
- Politically Incorrect, 1999

Christine O'Donnell on Mice

"American scientific companies are crossbreeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."
- on "The O'Reilly Factor," 2007

Christine O'Donnell on the Holocaust

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O'DONNELL: "You always have to talk about the truth... I tell the truth... The lie, whether it be a lie or an exaggeration, is disrespect to whoever you're exaggerating or lying to because it's not respecting reality."
EDDIE IZZARD: "What if someone comes to you in the middle of the second World War and says, 'Do you have any Jewish people in your house?,' and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler."
O'DONNELL: "I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously."
- Politically Incorrect, 1998

Christine O'Donnell on Condoms

"AIDS is very quickly becoming the number one killer among teens, next to drinking and driving and drug related accidents. So, we know how to prevent AIDS, and we know how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases: Don't have sex!... Condoms don't work! Condoms fail."
- Politically Incorrect, 1997

Christine O'Donnell on Co-Ed Dorms

"What's next? Orgy rooms? Menage a trois rooms?[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students."
- On co-ed dorm life, Washington Times, 2003

Christine O'Donnell on Being Followed

"They're following me. They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that--they follow me."
-The Weekly Standard, Sept. 10, 2010

Christine O'Donnell on Bill Clinton

"We're not giving the case of Vincent Foster a fair trial -- when there is a lot more empirical evidence that Clinton is involved in wrongdoing... And then there's also the issue of murder with Vincent Foster. That's a much more serious charge than failing to seek legal advice, and yet we're all just blowing that off, and everybody's trying to focus on Newt Gingrich like a witch hunt, to bring him to the stake and burn him, because they don't like the policy that he's behind."
-C-SPAN, 1996