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Point and counterpoint. Thank you. This is an excellent beginning. But no, I am not gay -- or at least so far I still find myself perversely attracted to women. Racially I am quite a mess, really, but there is that "one drop" of Afrian blood, not to mention about a quart of American Indian. The rest is Scots-Irish, which of courses includes the Moorish "perfect polution" which shows up in the motto on the family coat of arms. But I digress...
When Jesse Helms denigrated black people, gay people, or any other sorts of people, he denigrated me, both as a human brother of those people and as an American who actually believes in the American ideals we routinely trample and which Mr. Helms apparently used as toilet paper. So if you still choose to tip your hat -- or wig -- I'm reciprocating in advance. Thank you for understanding my irritation at the predictable unseemliness, even though it is over the virtual grave of someone about whom I wish I'd never had to know.
