WTF is that supposed to mean?
xm177e2 Typed it, why don't you ask him/her?
Beats me.
It means, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because he was a homosexual.
Some people hate homosexuals sooooo much, that they are going out of their way to say mean things about him, or to play down the horror of what happened to him.
Matthew Shepard didn't rape and murder Jesse Dirkhising, it's abominable to tie him to that crime. And Farah does it so you won't have sympathy for the victim of a similarly brutal murder.
Why doesn't Farah include the details of what Shepard suffered, when he writes these articles? Ask yourself that. Because to Joe Farah, Matthew Shepard was a subhuman and what he suffered doesn't matter at all. His suffering didn't matter at all. Which is why it's okay to lie about it (and claim it was the result of a robbery-gone-wrong).
I look at that, and I see hate.