[LiberalGunNut]

That is a vicious smear and there is no evidence supporting it. WHy do you have to diminish a guy who was clearly victimized because of his sexual orientation? Whether or not you agree with homosexuality or The Laramie Project, you do agree they shouldn't be beaten, robbed and killed?

The murderers even tried to use the "gay panic defense" for crying out loud. Temporary insanity because a gay man may have came on to them.

[Paloma_55]

That is a vicious smear and there is no evidence supporting it.

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I guess that is easy to say, but it is false. I am not going to drag (pardon the pun) out evidence to support a well known fact.

He was a prostitute that got robbed, beaten and left for dead.

I did not say that was OK. I think its wrong...but to elevate him to a martyr status is also wrong. There are plenty of prostitutes that get robbed, beaten and left for dead every day, but if they are black, or a crack addicted skank, it does not make the news.

[Nextrush]

Go to this link and read the story: perps, investigator and prosecutor all say it was not about Shepherd being gay.

ABC News did story on 20/20.

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

[ishabibble]

Perhaps you should follow the story of poor, poor Matthew Shepard more closely. If ever there was a false god...

Several years after the fact, Diane Sawyer and 20/20 went back and revisited this case. It turns out that the principal murderer was Matt's sometime fun buddy. Oh yeah.
You may want to check that part out, and you can on the ABC news website/archives. Also, Matt was not the brave innocent portrayed in the play. He was a twink basket case by all accounts. Phelps and his bunch are sick beyond belief, but supporting this ugly, dirty story being pushed onto high school kids by the homosex agenda is just as bad.

[Alouette]

More gays are murdered every year by other gays than by "homophobic fairy bashers."