Editing Claude Allen (section)

== Policy positions ==
Allen has said of condom use, "It's like telling your child, 'Don't use the car,' but then leaving the keys in the Lamborghini and saying, 'But if you do, buckle up.{{' "}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/01/claude_allen_bu.html|title=DIRELAND: CLAUDE ALLEN, BUSH'S NEW DOMESTIC POLICY CZAR|website=direland.typepad.com}}</ref>

Allen is [[anti-abortion]]. Journalist [[Doug Ireland]] wrote that when serving as Health and Human Services Commissioner in Virginia, Allen opposed certain legislation because it included taxpayer funding for [[abortion]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/|title=L.A. Weekly|website=LA Weekly}}</ref>

According to [[NNDB]].com, "In 1984, as a press aide to Jesse Helms, Allen told the ''Greensboro News and Record'': 'We could expound on and undertake a campaign against Jim Hunt's connections with the homosexuals, the labor union connection, the radical feminist connection, the socialist connection.'

Subsequent reports claim that Allen's precise words had actually been: 'We could go back and do the same thing with the queers[...]' [Allen then] he called the reporter back and apologized for his choice of words."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nndb.com/people/610/000101307/|title = Claude Allen}}</ref>