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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 08:29 PM
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GOP Rep.: Notion that Matthew Shepard murder was hate crime ‘a hoax’
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By Jeremy Gantz

Published: April 29, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago


Less than one month after she used the term “tar baby” on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has managed to offend another group of Americans: gay people.

Speaking on the House floor Wednesday while a hate crimes bill – known as the “Matthew Shepard bill,” after the gay 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in 1998 – was being debated, Foxx called the University of Wyoming student’s association with the legislation “a hoax” because, she said, Shepard was not killed because of his sexual orientation.
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