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Revision as of 19:55, October 15, 2007
Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) was an American college student from Wyoming. On October 7th, 1998, he was savagely beaten and robbed by two men, and died on October 12th. The killers were heavily involved in drugs and had met Shepard in a bar, giving him a ride afterwards.
A misguided defense of one of the killers tried to make an issue of Shepard's homosexuality. In fact, at least one of Shepard's killers admitted in an interview on 20/20 that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays."[1]
It was homosexual activists who converted this drug-related killing into a so-called "hate crime." They claimed even before the details of the crime were known that the murder was due to anti-gay bias. One the crime was discovered, Shepard's friends "were calling the County Attorney's office, they were calling the media and indicating Matthew Shepard is gay and we don't want the fact that he is gay to go unnoticed."[1]
Ever since Shepard's death it has been cited by homosexual activists to promote legislation to classify attacks against homosexuals as a hate crime that would be punished more severely than a crime against a heterosexual. All legislation, both in Wyoming and on the national level, has failed, but under Democratic leadership the U.S. House of Representatives passed a hate crimes bill in 2007.[2] President George W. Bush has vowed to veto it.
External links
- Matthew Shepard Murder The Daily Camera.
