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Lest anyone say the GOP isn't full of compassionate conservatives:
Matthew Shepard's mother was in the gallery and got to hear that come from the floor of US House of Representatives. Nice.
As the House of Representatives debates an expansion of hate crimes legislation, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has taken the rhetoric to a new level, claiming that those who say Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming for being gay are perpetrating a "hoax" on the American people.
"I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- 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," said Foxx. -C-SPAN via HuffPo
Matthew Shepard's mother was in the gallery and got to hear that come from the floor of US House of Representatives. Nice.