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...seemed like the murder of Matthew Shepard might have been enough. It seemed like the sight of a young man strung up on a fence post by vicious killers simply because he was gay might have been enough to prompt the state legislature in Wyoming to enact hate-crimes legislation. In the wake of the killing, in the wake of the national outcry that followed, it seemed like the obvious fact--that violence motivated by racial, ethnic or sexual bias warrants extra punishment--was on the verge of acceptance...
While the murder of Matthew Shepard is the most horrendous example of hate crime, hate crime legislation is also vital in the prevention of lesser crimes which have the effect of terrorizing whole group of citizens. Surely spray-painted swastikas and burning crosses are far more pernicious than ordinary vandalism...
...murder of Matthew Shepard was more than a personal loss for his family and friends; it was an act of social intimidation that impacted the thousands of gays and lesbians in Wyoming and the millions across the country. It sent a violent and unmistakable message: Unless you are willing to live your life in fear, unless you are willing to risk the violent prejudice of your neighbors, you cannot live...
There can be no question of the deplorable nature of all hate-motivated crime, particularly violent acts as in the case of Matthew Shepard...
...stories of welfare-to-work programs and a beginning of a redefinition of the welfare state. Baby boomers turned toward religion. Increasingly the country turned away from gay bashing and other low-life thinking, as was indicated by the national revulsion at the beating to death of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. No one was more repelled by the truck-dragging murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man in Jasper, Texas, than Texans themselves...