Category: Hate Crime
HRC to Join Hate Crimes Press Conference This Afternoon
This afternoon, HRC President Joe Solmonese will join Senate leaders at a press conference to call for the swift passage of a strong hate crimes bill, known in the Senate as the Matthew Shepard Act.
Hearing reset for boy accused of killing gay teen
A preliminary hearing has been postponed again for a 15-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting a gay student in an Oxnard classroom.
James Dobson’s Hate Crimes Bill Paranoia
We thought you might be interested in this outrageous clip of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, who claims that the hate crimes bill currently before Congress could protect “30 forms of sexual deviancy”.
Judy Shepard Responds to Rep. Foxx
Judy Shepard appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Thursday night to discuss prospects for the passage of federal hates-crime legislation, and to address Rep. Virginia Foxx’s comment that the idea that Matthew Shepard’s murder was a hate crime is “a hoax.”
N.C. Rep.: Matthew Shepard Hate Crime a “Hoax”
The federal LGBT-inclusive hate-crimes bill passed in the House yesterday, but Republican representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina took to the House floor to offer her two cents, saying Matthew Shepard’s death, while unfortunate, wasn’t a hate crime – it was a hoax.