[ChocChipCookie]

hmmmmm....I've read in more than one article the same account given by Rep. Foxx.

Here's a paragraph from an ABC news site:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=1

The story garnered national attention when the attack was characterized as a hate crime. But Shepard's killers, in their first interview since their convictions, tell "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays.

I see now that the media is trying to change this part of the story. ABC has a "debunking" story just posted three hours ago. hmmmmmm.... Sorry, but I'm a lot more inclined to believe what was posted more than four years ago when a so-called "hate crime" bill wasn't up for passage in Congress.

[LS]

Everything I saw since this event suggests it had nothing to do with homosexuality and everything to do with drugs.

[Joann37]

Here were her exact comments: “The Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed,” Foxx, a Banner Elk Republican, said. “But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay.

“The bill was named for him … but it’s really a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”

Rep. Foxx just states that the motive for the crime was robbery, not him being gay. And as poster #5 states, the perps confirm their motive (that of robbery) to Elizabeth Vargas.

So what is Rep. Foxx’s big misstatement here? She just reiterated the motives as stated by the perps. Thousands of people are brutally murdered every year, regardless of their sexual preference? Are they any less dead, or did they suffer any less because they were NOT gay?

[digger48]

Former Laramie Police Detective Ben Fritzen, one of the lead investigators in the case, also believed robbery was the primary motive. "Matthew Shepard's sexual preference or sexual orientation certainly wasn't the motive in the homicide," he said.

"If it wasn't Shepard, they would have found another easy target. What it came down to really is drugs and money and two punks that were out looking for it," Fritzen said