A sad day for bigots and homophobes everywhere

Some memorable quotes for those who would somehow be inclined to pay their respects:

“Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior”

On his vote against funding of an AIDS program:“It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease”

"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing." — Helms responding in 1956 to criticism that a fictional black character in his newspaper column was offensive.

"What is really at stake is whether or not America will allow
the cultural high ground in this nation to sink slowly into an
abyss of slime to placate people who clearly seek or are willing
to destroy the Judaic-Christian foundations of this republic."
Jesse Helms (1990, on funding for the National Endowment for the Arts)

"Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into
the wrong hands."

"Atheism and socialism -- or liberalism, which tends in the
same direction -- are inseparable entities. When you have men
who no longer believe that God is in charge of human affairs,
you have men attempting to take the place of God by means of
the Superstate."
Jesse Helms (1973)

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint
that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic,
and interfere with other men's rights."

"The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested
with homosexuals themselves."
The Post, he charged, "caters to homosexual groups.
Just about every person down there is homosexual or lesbian,"

If God had wanted us to use the metric system,
Jesus would have had 10 apostles.