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Title: 'Ardent homophobe’ Jesse Helms is dead (comments)
Post by: Natasha on July 13, 2008, 02:40:43 AM
Post by: Natasha on July 13, 2008, 02:40:43 AM
'Ardent homophobe' Jesse Helms is dead
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/7-11/news/national/12919.cfm (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/7-11/news/national/12919.cfm)
7/11/2008
Jesse Helms, a man whom critics called "an ardent homophobe" and someone who "tarnished the Republican Party," died last week at age 86.
He started off as a racist and then became an ardent homophobe, picking on people who were sick and dying," Basile said. "He was a bully and a bigot. And those who now remember him as just a conservative, I think malign the word conservative."
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/7-11/news/national/12919.cfm (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/7-11/news/national/12919.cfm)
7/11/2008
Jesse Helms, a man whom critics called "an ardent homophobe" and someone who "tarnished the Republican Party," died last week at age 86.
He started off as a racist and then became an ardent homophobe, picking on people who were sick and dying," Basile said. "He was a bully and a bigot. And those who now remember him as just a conservative, I think malign the word conservative."