Fuck you, Virginia Foxx
I mean, just, fuck you.
“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 the young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay,” Foxx (R-NC 5) said during Wednesday’s House debate of hate-crimes legislation.
Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming who was murdered in 1998, is often linked to hate-crimes legislation since his widely publicized killing was viewed as an anti-gay attack.
But Foxx said it is “a hoax” to use Shepard’s name for today’s hate-crimes bill, which includes new protections for gays and lesbians. She argued Democrats are only using it “as an excuse for passing these bills.”
Since 1949, Durhamites have slept soundly, secure in the knowledge that, in our town, erection can be depended upon. Now, thanks to the power of the internets, we can spread that security all over the world.
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toastie, at 2:02 PM
I was raised in Winston-Salem, sad to say, and am ashamed to point out that Foxx won her job by being the comparatively reasonable Republican.
However, I actually know a sometime politician & veteran who can someday, I hope, be persuaded to run against her.
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Maven, at 10:21 PM
Jesse Helms would be proud.
Except he's too busy spinning in his grave!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
By
Tony, at 10:32 AM
I hope I live long enough to see us stop electing these idiots that are a national embarrassment to us as North Carolinians!
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kendraro, at 2:39 PM
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