this is just strange...

So apparently Elizabeth Dole wants to rename and AIDS prevention bill after the late Sen. Jesse Helms, a man who said of AIDS and those who get it,

deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct...We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts.

He even voted against the Ryan White AIDS act...you remember the little boy who got AIDS and died right? There were all kinds of TV specials about him I remember watching and growing up.

Is she serious? Or is this some kind of a sick joke?