Today’s New York Times Editorial: Matthew Shepard Act
Today’s New York Times Editorial: Matthew Shepard Act:
“In a particularly ugly moment in last week’s House debate, Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, declared that Mr. Shepard’s death was “a hoax,†repeating a right-wing canard that he was not a target because he was gay.
Luckily, Ms. Foxx is part of a dwindling — if still too vocal — minority. A Hart Research poll released in February 2007 found that 73 percent of those surveyed support hate-crimes legislation that protects gays.”

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