I don't believe in redemption through death. If someone is an [expletive] when they're alive, they're still an [expletive] after they've died. There are scores of people whose graves I would gleefully dance on (or clog - I actually know how to do that) without a moment's hesitation. 

JBS~ LOL! me too... but I wait till the relatives are gone. 

Thanks John. Besides being gay, I got the guilt gene, too. Guilt is a behavior so, following the logic used by anti-gay bigots about homosexuality, if it's a behavior you can choose not to act on and if you're doing it you choose to do it.  In this case, I think I'll follow the Christian logic and choose not to feel guilty.

The only time I have a conscience is when it comes to animals. Non-human animals.

The sub-title of your blog says "I'm writing about issues that are intended to educate my fellow citizens on the lives of gays...".  And you're doing a bang up job, too. 

If I hadn't been deaf for the majority of my adulthood, I probably wouldn't be here. But since the internet is largely based on text communication, I'm drawn to it because I can read text a whole lot better than I can read lips.  Thanks. I just try to speak from the heart. I don't know any other way of saying things.

Well, if there is a God, then Jesse will be met at the Pearly Gates by an AIDS infected black gay who also contracted lung cancer from smoking.

Forgive the racist bigot Helms who devoted his public life to evil?

At best, Helms was merely part of a malignant social cancer.

Few tears will be shed over his demise, especially by those millions he spent his legislative life repressing.

David Duke and his evil, KKK ilk might be lamenting his passing, but the rest of the civilized country is inwardly rejoicing.

That he was elected, re-elected and festered in office for so long illustrates the insidious racism, bigotry and hatred still remaining in this country.

Ray, you do it quite well.