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== Matthew Sheppard Hate Crime Hoax ==
== Matthew Sheppard Hate Crime Hoax ==
Several prominent politicians, including President Bill Clinton used the Matthew Sheppard incident in an attempt to lobby Congress to pass hate crime legislation. This legislation was defeated.
During an interview with 20/20 news, several associates of Sheppard provided evidence and statements to the press that McKinney, Sheppard's killer, was also a homosexual. McKinney was interviewed by 20/20 and told reporters that Sheppard's sexual orientation was not a motive for the killing, despite media reports, and distorted reporting and lobbying of the incident by the militant gay rights movement. Both McKinney and Doc O'conner, associates of Sheppard, stated that both Matthew Sheppard and McKinney were homosexuals and were also methampetamine users.
McKinney and Henderson told reporters Matthew Sheppard aand McKinney got into an altercation when Sheppard attempted to solicit homosexual contact with McKinney while he was "coming off a meth binge" and that McKinney's rage and drug induced psychosis triggered a violent episode that left Sheppard seriously injured.
Since McKinney, Sheppards attacker, was also a homosexual/bisexual, the incident did not meet the legal definition of an "anti-homosexual hate crime".
== Judy Sheppard and the Matthew Sheppard Foundation ==
== Judy Sheppard and the Matthew Sheppard Foundation ==