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Both Critics of The Laramie Project Play and Movie and fundamental Christian Leaders have commented they feel the play distorts the facts of Matthew Sheppard's life.  One fundamental Christian group, the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas, picketed Matthew Sheppard's Funeral, and have made strong public statements about the treatment of the facts of the murder in The Laramie Project.  They have publicly stated:

Both Critics of The Laramie Project Play and Movie and fundamental Christian Leaders have commented they feel the play distorts the facts of Matthew Sheppard's life.  One fundamental Christian group, the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas, picketed Matthew Sheppard's Funeral, and have made strong public statements about the treatment of the facts of the murder in The Laramie Project.  They have publicly stated:

'' "... The Laramie Project has painted Matthew Sheppard, a confirmed methampetamine user, a hero for getting himself killed while trolling for anonymous homosexual sex and meth in a cowboy bar at midnight.  This is not the stuff of heroism, it is the stuff of idiocy.  ... Matthew Sheppard has become a "Poster Boy" for the militant Gay rights movement and its attempts to recruit impressionable young people into the sinful sodomite lifestyle and into lives of sin, shame, disease, death, and hell." ''

'' "... The Laramie Project has painted Matthew Sheppard, a confirmed methampetamine user, a hero for getting himself killed while trolling for anonymous homosexual sex and meth in a cowboy bar at midnight.  This is not the stuff of heroism, it is the stuff of idiocy.  ... Matthew Sheppard has become a "Poster Boy" for the militant Gay rights movement and its attempts to recruit impressionable young people into the sinful sodomite lifestyle and into lives of sin, shame, disease, death, and hell." ''

 

The Westboro Baptist Church and its congregation are depicted in an unfavorable light in both the play and the movie for preaching from the Bible against Homosexuality at Matthew Sheppards funeral.

The Westboro Baptist Church and its congregation are depectied in an unfavorable light in the play and movie for preaching from the Bible against Homosexuality.

== Judy Sheppard and the Matthew Sheppard Foundation ==

== Judy Sheppard and the Matthew Sheppard Foundation ==