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Jesse Helms is dead

Years ago, when I was a younger gay man in the deep South and had to deal with Jesse Helms’s racist and gay-hating power and influence, I thought how I would smile and be glad when the menace died. Guess what: I did. Allow me the moment of candor, if not the sentiment. Yet when… Continue reading Jesse Helms is dead

Published Saturday, 5 July 2008
Categorized as Political life, Universalism Tagged Jesse Helms, punishment

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The Boy in the Bands is a record of the passing thoughts of Scott Wells, now more cultural and less churchly. That side of my writing is now at revscottwells.com, thought I'll keep an archive here, too. I'm proud of my employer and colleagues, but the opinions here are mine.

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