Quotes from an Arch-Conservative, Jesse Helms

Ex-Senator Jesse HelmsFormer Senator North Carolina Jesse Helms died today. Known as an arch-conservative, 86-yr-old Helms served five terms in the Senate.Helms opposed abortion, communism, gays, liberals, the United Nations, and Fidel Castro. He was considered racist and homophobic. He opposed Jimmy Carter's selling out the Panama Canal in 1977.DBKP has rounded up some quotes of Helms who served in Congress for 30 years."Many support the the court's abortion decision do so by describing the constitution as a "living document" which the court must be permitted to interpret with the widest possible flexibility. But, when they say the constitution is a living document, they really mean that the constitution is dead, and that the Supreme Court as a supreme undertaker may dispose of the corpse as it pleases." Source -Address by... [read full story]