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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.


41 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)
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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.


42 posted on 10/11/2018 9:12:35 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance)
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To: Crazy Little Woman

Hazmat room.

He was full of meth and various viruses.


43 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)
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To: SMGFan
Matthew Shepard, Gay Student Killed in Hate Crime....

To the liars, the Narrative is more important than the Truth.

44 posted on 10/11/2018 9:18:03 AM PDT by bkopto
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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.


45 posted on 10/11/2018 9:20:35 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: SMGFan

Openly homosexual, in the National Cathedral? I thought that was only the cleric staff! Was he even Catholic?


46 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.)
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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.


47 posted on 10/11/2018 9:26:52 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: JimRed

OOPS! That’s the National Shrine I was thinking of, by Catholic University (my younger son’s alma mater).


48 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.)
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To: Fido969

Sounds like an Obama romance.


49 posted on 10/11/2018 9:30:15 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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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.
50 posted on 10/11/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT by golux
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To: JimRed

Uhm, The National Cathedral is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.


51 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.)
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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.


52 posted on 10/11/2018 9:34:28 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: golux

compare who is buried at Westminster Abbey to National Cathedral


53 posted on 10/11/2018 9:35:31 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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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...?


54 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)
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To: SMGFan

Drug dealers. It had nothing to do with his sexual disorientation.


55 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.")
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To: ManHunter

Just like the raid on the Stonewall Inn, which was about the Mafia connections to it, than the gays.


56 posted on 10/11/2018 9:38:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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 he’d 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.”

Matthew’s 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

57 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.)
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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"

58 posted on 10/11/2018 9:45:41 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Jewbacca

The crime is turning the murder into the hateful act of smearing heterosexuals.


59 posted on 10/11/2018 9:47:37 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: SMGFan
Matt "Baby Face" Shepard today:


60 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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