Abstract
A quote from the late Jesse Helms (1921–2008), Republican politician and latterly the chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “nothing positive happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and nothing positive is likely to happen to America if our people succumb to the drumbeats of support for the homosexual lifestyle”. His views were hardly representative of mainstream American opinion in the 1980s, but nor could they be readily dismissed as a screed from a furious extremist. This was a man who played a pivotal role in Ronald Reagan's advancement, and who the people of North Carolina elected to the Senate five times.
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