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The Fitting Memorial To Marriage Equality On Jesse Helms\u2019 Tombstone<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Jesse<\/a>Jesse Helms’ casket might as well be on a rotisserie, because he’s spinning in his grave right now. Last Friday, a federal judge in North Carolina cleared the way for marriage equality in the state <\/a>that the late Senator served so ignobly. Good thing that Helms, who called us  “weak, morally sick wretches,”<\/a> wasn’t alive to see it, because it would have killed him.<\/p>\n

However, someone with a fine sense of poetic justice decided to send a message to Jesse in the great beyond. (We won’t speculate just where that might be.) Propped up against Helms’ tombstone was a newspaper heralding the advent of same-sex<\/a> weddings in the state. We bet that Helms never expected to see that on his tombstone.<\/p>\n

And just in case you think Helms is a relic of the past, here’s a reminder that he’s not. Sen. Ted Cruz,<\/a> the beloved of the Tea Party, has said that “we need 100 more like Jesse Helms.”<\/a> Apparently, that old time homophobia just won’t die.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Facebook<\/p>\n

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