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Matthew Shepard: The legacy of a gay college student 20 years after his brutal murder.
ABC News ^ | 10-26-2018 | ROBERT ZEPEDA & EMILY SHAPIRO

Posted on 10/26/2018 8:11:28 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that age. He was an "ordinary kid who wanted to make the world a better place," his parents remembered. But in October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay college student was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence in Wyoming. His life ended a few days later, and with it came a widespread awareness of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ community face every day. The homophobic brutal killing also served as a catalyst for progress in America's laws and culture.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: baddrugdeal; drugs; fraud; gaylover; homo; homosexualagenda; methamphetamine; murder; notbreakingnews; wyoming
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To: alstewartfan

ABC Employing the “let’s dig him up every 10 years” Emmet Till method.


21 posted on 10/26/2018 8:37:19 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: rktman

Why, Mikey was the little kid who liked Life cereal. The essence of innocence and virtue.


22 posted on 10/26/2018 8:37:31 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("We circle each other in flight Til together we roll like the ocean In its bed at night" Al Stewart)
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To: carriage_hill

Why is ABC carrying on with the lie?


23 posted on 10/26/2018 8:39:03 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: major-pelham
Why is ABC carrying on with the lie?

It is in the essence of their being.

It is who they are and what they do.

24 posted on 10/26/2018 8:40:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: carriage_hill

More fake news.


25 posted on 10/26/2018 8:41:46 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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To: VietVet

Don’t know if the murder of James Byrd Jr was a lie.


26 posted on 10/26/2018 8:45:19 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: carriage_hill

The National Cathedral has become a parody and a sick joke. They allowed a Muslim service to be conducted there recently. They also allow all manner of perversion and debasement of Christianity.

Perhaps the interment is fitting?


27 posted on 10/26/2018 8:45:49 AM PDT by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: carriage_hill

A homosexual drug dealer.


28 posted on 10/26/2018 8:52:56 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

He was also a confirmed pedophile.


29 posted on 10/26/2018 8:56:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: fwdude

Baptized Episcopalian. Gave them up a LONG time ago.


30 posted on 10/26/2018 9:00:06 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: carriage_hill

Matthew Shepard: The legacy of a gay drug dealer 20 years after his brutal murder.

That’s more like it.


31 posted on 10/26/2018 9:05:47 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: carriage_hill

I thought he was a drug dealer?


32 posted on 10/26/2018 9:06:26 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: carriage_hill

The fact that the media is still talking about the death of a single gay men 20 years later speaks volumes of what a non problem violence against homosexuals is.


33 posted on 10/26/2018 9:07:50 AM PDT by MNDude (WWG1WGA)
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To: carriage_hill

We all note that all of us capable of reading know that Sheppard was a drug dealer.

Now, since the low-T and IQ broadcast crowd does not know this, it would appear that perhaps they have a thinking problem.


34 posted on 10/26/2018 9:14:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: carriage_hill

“His life ended a few days later, and with it came a widespread awareness of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ community face every day.”

Yeah. Like the three gay church members that attended church with Obama.

https://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2011/11/three-openly-gay-men-at-rev-wrights.html


35 posted on 10/26/2018 9:23:09 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: carriage_hill
Absolutely NOTHING in this story about the fact that he was actually killed in a drug deal. Yet they have a link to a 2004 ABC News story on just that aspect.

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1

36 posted on 10/26/2018 9:48:32 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Rurudyne

Thanks but your post seems to say that Dirkhising was murdered 20 years after the murder of Shephard, Jesse Dirkhising died Sept 26, 1999.

Dirkhising’s murder at the age of thirteen is far more of a horror story than the murder of Shephard but Dirkhising was a white teenager killed by two GAY men so of course it is ignored by the media. It is the most powerful proof of media bias that I am aware of.


37 posted on 10/26/2018 9:54:39 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: carriage_hill

After skimming and searching the article, I see no reason for this being posted in Breaking News (no mention of his ashes or the National Cathedral)...


38 posted on 10/26/2018 10:00:18 AM PDT by newgeezer ("You believed that sh*t? I meant 'FILL THE SWAMP' all along!" -- Donald J. Trump's brain 3/23/2018)
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To: rktman
30 Baptized Episcopalian. Gave them up a LONG time ago.

Ditto. NOV 2003 - right after the ECUSA Presiding Bishop consecrated the newly elected, openly-homosexual (who had left his wife with whom he had 2 grown daughters) diocesan bishop of New Hampshire.

39 posted on 10/26/2018 10:00:39 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: carriage_hill
He was killed in a drug deal gone bad
That's the bottom line. He was kiled by his "friends" who were just as gay as him. Tragic, but it had NOTHING absolutely NOTHING to do with "homophobia". This tragedy could've been used as a, I HATE this smarmy phrase, teachable moment as to the consequences of messing with drugs.
40 posted on 10/26/2018 10:50:27 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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