I always objected to the way the media lionized Matthew Shepard as "crucified." They tried to draw parallels between a man cruising for gay sex who ran into thugs and Jesus Christ.
This story sort of throws cold water on the Matthew Shepard as a saint movement. Of course gays who chose to see him so will just ignore this information.
Meridith Viera has gone on record to refute her original story portraying the murder as an anti-gay hate crime. The killers had no inkling as to Shepherd's sexual orientation.
They write plays about Jesus being a sodomite. What do you expect? Homos to face reality? They can't even see what they WALLOW in like PIGS. So of course they'll deify Sheppard.
I also objected to the way the liberal mainstream media COMPLETELY ignored the killing of a teenager (I think about 13 year old boy) by two homosexuals in Mississippi. The teen suffocated having a rag stuffed in his mouth while the homosexuals abused him. This all happened around the same time that Shepard was killed. Funny... not a PEEP about it from the MSM. I wrote the Washington Post asking about it and they said that Shepard was a "national" news story so it should be covered a lot by a local paper like the Post. Of course it became a national story because the liberal papers decided to make it one. If they made the killing of the boy by the homosexuals front page all the time it would be a national story also. Some murders, especially of children, are simply acceptable by the MSM if a politically correct group does the killing...
Consider this: Matthew Shepard = "Matthew's Shepherd." Who was the "Shepherd" in the Gospel according to St. Matthew?
The allusion is unmistakable even if unspoken. Obviously, liberals had no opportunity to prophesy and name their martyr before his accidental martyrdom on behalf of the liberal cause. But having been gifted the propaganda coup by pure serendipity, they were zealous to exploit it.