Go Read It: Homophobic Congresswoman Foxx to Head the House Subcommittee on Higher Education

Please read this and take action on the petition that's linked inside this post:

Virginia Foxx, Republican Congresswoman from North Carolina CD-5 and outspoken opponent of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, will be chair the House Subcommittee on Higher Education. Her office announced this on January 4, 2011.

She called Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard's terribly violent death at the hands of two homophobic men "a hoax." Judy Shepard, Matthew's mother, happened to be in the audience at the House of Representatives that day to hear the cruel remark during debate on the bill. Only after public pressure did Foxx apologize and say it was a "poor choice of words."

TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition now demanding that she step down!

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Who opposes a Hate Crimes Prevention Act? That person might well as say, It's ok to commit a crime against someone different than you and not go punished. In the case of the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr, they were the kinds of gruesome deaths no human should visit on another, the kind that make you grieve that humans are capable of such savagery toward one another.

But Congresswoman Foxx's offenses aren't limited to toxic beliefs--she actively opposes every single initiative that President Obama has proposed or signed into law that would enable young people greater, affordable access to a college education. She even opposes his goal to have 5 million more college graduates than we currently have in the next decade.

Read about her record cozying up to ripoff for-profit colleges and protecting bankster-middlemen who skim profit off student loans to college students (something President Obama has now stopped by allowing students to get college loans directly from the Department of Education). Then sign the petition to have her removed from influencing higher education policy.

Cynematic is a proud graduate of many fine public schools and passionately believes an excellent education is one of the greatest gifts this country has to give to her people. She created K12NewsNetwork.com to empower women's voices in education policy and write about education and social justice.

Comments

[JCK]

Thanks for posting this! Am going to share your post on FB.

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[Silvertongue62]

I don't have children but i signed the petition because what most don't understand is these are the people who will be taking care of us when we are old. These are the future who will be paying into social security or not. The very thought that my future lies in the hands of a woman who will steer our young to whatever course is more than scary to me.

I'm just saying...