Sunday, July 6, 2008

This way, Senator Helms, to the 8th Circle

Bill Cobey, a former politico and chair of the Jesse Helms Center, tells the press:

"Senator Helms was very strong in what he believed, but he never presumed that he could tell other people what they should believe,” Cobey said...
"'He really was a gentle man, he really loved people and they loved him. Now I’m not talking about his critics on issues, I’m talking about those that knew him personally.' Cobey said."

Obsidian Wings suggests what that love was like:

"[In 1995,] when an old friend wrote him to recommend compassion for people like her gay son, who had died of AIDS, Helms wrote back to say, 'I wish he had not played Russian roulette with his sexual activities.'"

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