2aguy
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No...he wasn't murdered because he was gay.....he was killed because he was a meth dealer and two other meth dealers, on a week long bender, wanted his money, and they lost control because of the meth fueled rage....
It was, of course, a total lie. Not one bit of it was true, in fact. It was made up to satisfy the need for a Jesus-like victim.
That the story is a lie is not really disputed. Stephen Jimenez wrote a book about the murder called “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,” which was well-reviewed and stands unrefuted. Even left-wing reviewers write glowingly of the book.
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I’m not going to get into the details, except to note one thing: one of the killers was not a homophobic hater, but was in fact an on-again off-again lover of Matt’s. This is hardly the stuff of a homophobic hate crime; it was a meth-fueled murder spree that was ignited because the perpetrators were trying to steal a cache of the drug from Shepard.
It was, of course, a total lie. Not one bit of it was true, in fact. It was made up to satisfy the need for a Jesus-like victim.
That the story is a lie is not really disputed. Stephen Jimenez wrote a book about the murder called “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,” which was well-reviewed and stands unrefuted. Even left-wing reviewers write glowingly of the book.
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I’m not going to get into the details, except to note one thing: one of the killers was not a homophobic hater, but was in fact an on-again off-again lover of Matt’s. This is hardly the stuff of a homophobic hate crime; it was a meth-fueled murder spree that was ignited because the perpetrators were trying to steal a cache of the drug from Shepard.
