Posted on 09/18/2013 3:38:46 PM PDT by rhema
Not a hate crime? The murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998 became a cause célèbre for homosexual activists who said Shepherd’s murderers targeted him because he was gay. Now comes a new book saying Shepard and his murderers partied together, had sex together, and used drugs together.
The Book of Matt, out next week to coincide (more or less) with the 15th anniversary of the murder, is causing buzz because the writer is himself gay and a credible investigative reporter.
One of the more interesting reviews of the book came from gay journalist Andrew Sullivan: “If you’re going to base a civil rights movement on one particular incident, and the mythology about a particular incident, you’re asking for trouble, because events are more complicated than most politicians or most activists want them to be.”
Precisely.
I’ve just bought this on Kindle. I always knew this story was bogus.
“It’s just about love!”
When speaking of Matthew Sheppard, always remember Jesse Dirkhising.
So where is this trouble (for the gays) that Sullivan murmurs about? See any?
Jesse's story didn't "resonate" </ scumbag NEWSWEAK editor to Brent Bozell>.
Sorry.
Probably nine out of ten people who know who Matthew Sheppard was have never heard of Jesse, due to the the LSM silence on that story.
False witness.
I was in Denver on the dates of several note-worthy events.
I was there for the Matthew Shepard Tragedy,The John Benet Ramsey Murder, the Oaklahoma City Explosion,and, the Columbine Shootings.
Thing is a lot of this stuff is bogus and exploited. The so called ‘civil rights’ movements has ample amounts of this.
The Stonewall riots outside the mob run speakeasy was the “start” of the homosexualist rights movement.
Or maybe it was the faggot Kinsey who got the balls rolling.
That sounds painful
I suspect that one of the guys in the Lawrence v. Texas case (who was already up for an assault charge case against the jilted “lover” who called 911 the night of the arrest) is the one who murdered the “jilted lover” before the assault case came to light. You can’t libel the dead. All 3 men are now dead in that case. Drug users with past criminal records.
Ain’t a Rosa Parks in the homosexual agenda movement. Kinsey had criminals molest babies for “science”.
Stonewall was a mob run illicit bar.
Maybe they should praise Roy Cohn.
"There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness. In his book, Flagrant Conduct, Dale Carpenter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, similarly unpicks the notorious case of Lawrence v. Texas, in which the arrest of two men for having sex in their own bedroom became a vehicle for affirming the right of gay couples to have consensual sex in private. Except that the two men were not having sex, and were not even a couple. Yet this non-story, carefully edited and taken all the way to the Supreme Court, changed America."
It is a casual description of the 1984ish media of our nation.
I really worry about the intent of gay power when I look at how many of ‘em were in bed with Hitler.
It doesn't matter to them if the facts are true or false; let's assume that they assume them to be false. What matters is that they get the public to act on an agenda before the true facts come out. By that time, it's too late to undo the actions taken in haste.
-PJ
The DA said he couldn’t choose which laws to enforce, then let them off the hook for the drugs charges they faced in that apartment.
He ultimately said he didn’t care about that law against same sex sodomy.
He was also against gun rights.
Funny character for a Harris County “Republican”. Glad he was run out of office in scandal (communicating with a mistress on company computers). He was also accused of sharing “racist” jokes (a comic strip in which Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, two confirmed bigots, were seen next to a wishing well. One of them throws a coin in the well wishing that racism would disappear, then they both vanish).
The fix was in from the beginning, I suspect.
And they are still making legal attacks for same sex marriage in Texas.
Well, was Dirkhising attacking that gay before Jesse himself was done in? Did he try to beat the fudgepacker up before the latter struck back? Was Dirkhising's attack (if it happened) covered up?
Sometimes what's missing from a story is as interesting as what *is* reported, whatever the agenda of the media outlet.
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I was there for the Matthew Shepard Tragedy,The John Benet Ramsey Murder, the Oaklahoma City Explosion,and, the Columbine Shootings.
By design in each case (or at least for Ramsey, Shepard, and Columbine)?
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The book will be completely ignored by the mainstream media.
Unless we buy it.
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