is not a triumph of good over evil.  It is paying proper respect to a career in elected public service.  

I respect acts of conscience and accomodate even those which I believe to be trivial like this one.  I actually have more respect for the pharmacists who refuse to dispense morning after pills because they are anti-abortion.  I don't agree wtih their views and don't condone their actions, but they are acting out of deep conviction that they are enabling the termination of a human life.    This individual simply detested Helms and what he stood for and thought that he should make his views part of the public spectacle rather than just do his job.