Edited to:Due to serious nature the thread has taken concerning Rep. Foxx's comment and the outrage everyone should feel , I removed the joke posters because as a mother of young men, one about the age Shepard was, I felt they should not be posted and detract from the following topic.

Or at the very least, that we don't parade around bigoted show dogs with fake tits.

Kevin I am bleaching my teeth right now so my mouth is full of bleaching stuff and kleenex to keep the bleach from burning my lips and stop from drooling , but I read the comment above and spit out some of my kleenex from laughing so hard. But  that is a show I may tune into.LOL 

See what these beauty shows do, they drive women to do crazy things for an impossible beauty. :0D

I'm sure the name Virginia Foxx has surfaced in the "politics" thread, but I think she's worth talking about here, too. 

It's rare that someone actually gets me mad with their comments, but to say the stuff she said, in front of Shepard's mother!  Gall...

Pretty lousy, I think.  This fight isn't really adding gays to the existing hate crime legislation.  Its about treating gays as a protected class, like race or gender.  This is a gay marriage fight.  See this quote:

"It elevates homosexuality to the same protective category as race. It's all part of the radical homosexual anarchist agenda" by Matthew Staver, founder of the Liberty Council, a law firm that works on religious freedom cases.

The concern that the opponents have is that there will be Federal law that recognizes gays as a protected class -- which would be persuasive when the issue of equal protection is taken to the United States Supreme Court.  At least thats my take on it.