Matthew Shepard went looking for gay sex from male strangers, always a risky activity in more ways than one. He had the bad luck to encounter two thugs who were looking for someone weak to rob. He was not killed because he was gay. When will this politically correct myth die?
If the testimony of Shepard's killers can be believed, Shepard grabbed the crotch of one of his killers in a fit of gay passion. That probably explains some of the rage that killed him. Straight males do not enjoy having their crotches grabbed by gay males. (I speak from personal experience.)
Male homosexuals have been sacred cows in American culture for so long that some believe that they have a license to engage in extremely offensive public behavior and speech. In this culture, when a straight man sexually harasses a straight woman, and she objects, the straight man is the bad guy. When a gay male sexually harasses a straight male, and he objects, once again the straight male is the bad guy (for demonstrating his "homophobia" and his inability to "take it like a man.") It adds up to a formula for producing fury.
The article does not adequately describe what provoked this shooting. It presumes that the gay kid was minding his own business when the homophobe shot him for being gay. Whatever happened here, that was not it.
Certainly the shooter should be prosecuted, but it would help to hear the story from the shooter's perspective. It might teach some gays to moderate their behavior if they understood how much anger it can create, particularly in males who are unsure of their own sexuality. Of course, some gays act out precisely because they enjoy the outrage they can produce.
More to the point, it is seen as "OK" for the female to respond violently to harassment by a straight male
This is what bugs me.
The word homophobic and the liberal name calling the libs do
Phobic is to be scared live in fear of
I am not afraid of of homo’s, I am not living my life with a fear of them, I just don’t think they are normal in the head and need mental help.
having sex with the same person and then acting like they do is not natural .
If nature intended men to have sex with other men they they would be able to reproduce, they cannot and therefore they are doing an unnatural act
The homo’s actually think they should be married now if that is not delusional I don’t know what is
Where was this kid’s parents, that let him go to school dresses as a chick? It still doesn’t excuse the other guy from shooting him.