| IN 2009 President Obama signed
a federal bias crimes law named
for the victims of two gruesome
1998 atrocities: the young gay
man who was tortured, lashed to
a fence and left to die; and the black
man chained to the back of a pickup
by white supremacists and dragged
until he was dismembered. The
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd
Jr. |
