[robertpaulsen]

Not true! I saw the made-for-TV movie, and Matthew Shepard was only looking for a ride, not sex. He was totally innocent and minding his own business when he was picked on and set up by those red country homophobes. So get your facts straight!

[MHT]

The fact-ion of made-for-TV movies "based upon" true stories is a perfect place for facts and viewpoints to be spun.

OK, even IF he thought he was just getting a ride, who gets rides from strangers they have just met in bars? There is more "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" in this story than Leopold and Loeb. One of the victims of a man who was executed in TX two years ago was a fellow who had car trouble and was hitching a ride to a service station at the next highway exit.

Moral of the story--DON'T GET INTO CARS WITH STRANGERS (or new best friends you just met in a drunken haze at a bar!).

[CIBvet]

Oh, I see ... you learned your facts of the case from the made-for-TV movie.

Hmmmmmmm?? Me thinks thou doest protest too much.