Judy Shepard on Rachel Maddow

Judy Shepard, mother of murdered student Matthew Shepard, was on The Rachel Maddow Show last night talking about the Hate Crimes bill, aka the Matthew Shepard Act, and about North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx’s statement that to call her son’s murder a hate crime is a “hoax.”

No mother should ever have to go through what Judy Shepard has. I have the greatest admiration for her and her husband Dennis for transforming their grief into a way to create positive change.