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A Texas High School Canceled A Play About Hate Crime Victim Matthew Shepard
In 2009, then-President Barack Obama enacted the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which broadened federal hate crime law to include gender, gender identity ...
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‘Considering Matthew Shepard’
Shepard was a Wyoming college student whose violent 1998 death led to the expansion of federal hate-crime legislation. (Photo courtesy of the Matthew Shepard Foundation website) EDITOR’S NOTE ...
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Bishop Budde helped lay gay hate crime victim to rest: ‘His death was a wound on our nation’
It turns out Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde – who begged Donald Trump to show mercy to LGBTQ+ children and immigrants during a powerful sermon this week – was the bishop who interred the ashes of hate ...