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Hate Crimes bill passes in the House
April 29th, 2009The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a 249 to 175 vote. A total of 231 Democrats voted in favor of the legislation with 17 voting against, while 18 Republicans voted for the legislation with 158 voting against, according to Stonewall Democrats.
Just so you know, there was a lot of ignorance being spewed during the debate. One member of Congress said that the people who killed Mathew Shepard didn’t kill him because he was gay, but were just trying to rob him, and that the hate crimes bill is a “hoax.”
This description comes from HRC:
During debate on hate crimes legislation taking place today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) claimed that Matthew Shepard’s death was “a hoax.†While Matthew’s mother, Judy Shepard looked on from the House gallery, Foxx, who managed the floor for those opposed to the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, spoke saying, “the hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard Bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. This – the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.â€
April 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
As a Mother, I can’t imagine hearing anything more hurtful: calling Matthew’s death and the hate crime, a hoax. A stunt. A lie. It’s a mockery of all hate crimes. We meed to vote these people OUT of office.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
This should become viral about this Foxx lady , a YouTube video with millions of hits….what a piece of work she is and Matthew Sheperds Mother is in attendance to hear this lie about her son.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
This is one time the saying “smart as a fox” doesn’t apply. BACKFIRE!
What a stupid woman and thank you for replacing our stupid “spokesman” Perez Hilton that has equally embarrassed us by his comments.
Nice to have the heat shifted to the other side. Enjoy the outrage right wing conservatives!
This is so much fun….jeez who would have dreamed we would have received this much daily publicity??
April 29th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Keith Olbermann in his “Worst Person in the World” segment, voted Fox the #1 Worse Person in the World today. It’ll be up on MSNBC’s site by tomorrow (am sure). He also calls for her to either apologize or resign.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
It’s a must see.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:10 am
This bill comes too late to help my grandmother. Returning home one night with her purse full of bingo winnings with at least three other ladies who had also won that night, she was singled out because she was the only white lady who lived in that particular unit of a housing project in the Dorchester section of Boston. The other ladies who were winners as well, were all black and walked the same route from the church hall to the housing project and made it home unmolested. She suffered a compound fracture of the wrist and was beaten severely. She was attacked on other occasions returning from bingo with less traumatic results while other ladies, mostly black were again left unmolested on their trips home. Now we have a president who has had his children baptized by an anti-Semite and a hater of people who are other than black (Reverend Wright) and we are told to have hope. We don’t need hope, we need to understand and identify people who thrive on hate and racism like our president’s advisors and ministers.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Not a WORD of this on Fox News of course.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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