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Matthew Shepard, Gay Student Killed in Hate Crime, to Be Interred at National Cathedral
NBC4 Washington ^
| October 11, 2018
Posted on 10/11/2018 8:42:06 AM PDT by SMGFan
Shepard's ashes will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral following a remembrance service
It's been 20 years since Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old openly gay college student, was abducted and killed in Wyoming.
On Oct. 26, he will finally be laid to rest. Shepard's ashes will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral after a service to celebrate and remember his life.
Shepard's parents picked the Cathedral as his final resting place because he loved the Episcopal Church and felt welcomed at one he attended in Wyoming.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...
TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: drugdeal; gaylovers; matthewshepard; methamphetamines
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To: Gay State Conservative
Well, he had HIV. That’s certainly enough.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:12:30 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: RinaseaofDs
You are correct, it was about drugs.
I knew people in Laramie then; they confirmed it and were mad as hell at the press for rearranging the dialogue.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:12:35 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
To: Crazy Little Woman
Hazmat room.
He was full of meth and various viruses.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:13:58 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: SMGFan
Matthew Shepard, Gay Student Killed in Hate Crime.... To the liars, the Narrative is more important than the Truth.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:18:03 AM PDT
by
bkopto
To: SMGFan
This has been debunked over and over again, but it doens't matter to the media. Shepard was NOT killed in a hate crime, he was killed as a result of a drug deal gone bad. His killers were not charged with a hate crime. Shepard was involved with meth, and he knew his killers (who were involved in meth) very well. Add to that the fact that Shepard was HIV positive and continued to sleep around Denver--not telling his victims he was HIV positive--and this whole Shepard-is-a-saint thing is disgusting. But we mustn't let the truth interfere with the victim narrative the MSM wants.
To: SMGFan
Openly homosexual, in the National Cathedral? I thought that was only the cleric staff! Was he even Catholic?
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:24:14 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Jewbacca
I just heard that it was a drug deal gone bad just this week! I think I heard it on Brietbart Daily News on XM radio. There must be thousands and thousands of people who do not know this. The media is at fault here.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:26:52 AM PDT
by
Karoo
To: JimRed
OOPS! That’s the National Shrine I was thinking of, by Catholic University (my younger son’s alma mater).
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:27:16 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Fido969
Sounds like an Obama romance.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:30:15 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: SMGFan
in England look at who they buried at Westminster Abbey....
John Gay? Bonar Law? I don't see what you mean.
There is no question as to what this meth-dealers life and death were like. There are books about it and I read one. (Forgot the title.)He was a total low-life loser creep who was in all sorts of trouble.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT
by
golux
To: JimRed
Uhm, The National Cathedral is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:33:39 AM PDT
by
lurked_for_a_decade
(Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
To: RinaseaofDs
Exactly, one of his murderers was bisexual... he wasn’t killed because he was gay, he was killed in a bad drug deal.. but that was the narrative the press wanted, so that’s the narrative it got.
To: golux
compare who is buried at Westminster Abbey to National Cathedral
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:35:31 AM PDT
by
SMGFan
( .)
To: RinaseaofDs
Yes it was. The only “hate” involved was a hatred for someone trying to rip you off - drugs in this case. So we canonize a drug dealer because he was gay...?
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:36:48 AM PDT
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: SMGFan
Drug dealers. It had nothing to do with his sexual disorientation.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:37:06 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("It is better to be slapped with the Truth than to be kissed with a Lie.")
To: ManHunter
Just like the raid on the Stonewall Inn, which was about the Mafia connections to it, than the gays.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:38:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SMGFan
'Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his killers, with whom hed had occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time of his death.
This does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement, says Jimenez. Which is a big part of the reason my book has been so trashed.
Matthews drug abuse, and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack, was never explored in court. Neither was the rumour that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 which they wanted to steal.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:38:41 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(No Republican Senator should vote for any Democrat Presidents Supreme Court nominee ever again.)
To: SMGFan
He was murdered in the midst of a drug deal gone bad, by a gay guy he'd previously had sex with.
>https://peterboyles.podbean.com/e/more-on-matt-shepard-oct-11-2018-hr-4/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter<
Stephen Jimenez - author of "The Book of Matt"
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:45:41 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Jewbacca
The crime is turning the murder into the hateful act of smearing heterosexuals.
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:47:37 AM PDT
by
Crucial
To: SMGFan
Matt "Baby Face" Shepard today:
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posted on
10/11/2018 9:48:07 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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