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To: paltz
Ten years after Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation, a 15-year-old gay California student is brain dead after a student allegedly shot him because of his sexual orientation and gender expression," the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network said in a news release.

Once every 10 years. This is nearly epidemic.

8 posted on 02/15/2008 10:40:12 AM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Always Right

Wasn’t Matthew Shepard actually killed for drug money?


25 posted on 02/15/2008 11:40:00 AM PST by Dmitry Vukicevich (Pride always comes before the downfall (How'd the primaries treat you last night Hil?))
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To: Always Right; paltz
Once every 10 years. This is nearly epidemic.

The two men who killed Matthew Shephard had, on previous occasions, traded sex for drugs with Shephard.

Funny how articles that reference the incident always seem to leave that part out.

68 posted on 02/15/2008 10:09:21 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Always Right

Except the Shepard incident wasn’t based on his sexual orientation. It didn’t make the crime less horrific. It didn’t mean that he wasn’t homosexual. It didn’t make him deserving of being brutally murdered. Its just that the facts just got in the way of the gay template and the fact that the perpetrators were just murderous robbers didn’t fit. More lies from the more equal. Its kind of like saying that if a rapist is a protestant and his victim is catholic, its a hate crime. Murder is murder. Hate is hate, but I’m sure we are in deep trouble when we invoke “the thought police”.


105 posted on 02/16/2008 1:53:01 PM PST by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Always Right
Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation

All the stories I've seen outside the MSM say that he was murdered because he was a convenient victim, not because he was gay. He was a convenient cause celebre' for the lib / gay / socialist activists in our country.

138 posted on 02/17/2008 4:45:27 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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