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With Helms it was easy to gravedance because he never made bones about turning around. He was evil and intolerant until the end.
It may have only been for political reasons, but Byrd did, in some small degree. He voted for the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, for instance. Granted, he also said a lot of hateful, ignorant, stupid stuff about minorities and gays too.
I think I'm trying to say that I don't recally Helms having much by way of mitigating factors. (It's hard to think before morning coffee... must make cup now)
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And they say back then our universe
Was a coal black egg
Until the god inside
Burst out and from its shattered shell
He made what became the world we know
~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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