http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/29/gop-rep-notion-that-matthew-shepard-murder-was-hate-crime-a-hoax/By Jeremy Gantz
Published: April 29, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago
Less than one month after she used the term “tar baby” on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has managed to offend another group of Americans: gay people.
Speaking on the House floor Wednesday while a hate crimes bill – known as the “Matthew Shepard bill,” after the gay 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in 1998 – was being debated, Foxx called the University of Wyoming student’s association with the legislation “a hoax” because, she said, Shepard was not killed because of his sexual orientation.