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Friends who only like you when you agree with them really aren't friends at all. We should all be unashamed to seek the truth in all matters, regardless of our personal feelings. This probably took a bit of courage on the part of the author- kudos to him.
Probably a bit of both, but the original story was a flash point of the LGBT activism explosion we see today. So, is it based on a lie?
"The Advocate" reviewed this...seemed to think the book and story line is credible.
Fascinating. I have always thought it a little hard to believe the narrative we were being fed about the case. I just found it hard to believe that people care enough about an individual's sexuality to do this for no other reason.
Matthew Shepard was about 5'6" and weighed 125 pounds.. He had very nice parents who lived and worked in KSA and were very active in the church and Sunday school there. I think this is a hatchet job.
Ok, just so we are clear....the original story of Matthew Shepard being tortured and killed by 'redneck, bigot, yahoo's' often used by LGBT supporters to politicize the "right" as being behind opposition to gay rights, is FALSE! In fact he was brutally killed by not only people he knew, but other gay, or bi, drug users on a meth binge for his drugs....
I don't really agree with that. I have no idea what's actually true here, but with all the crazy people in the world there's no motivation for killing I'd find particularly surprising.
Well, if it is a lie liberals don't seem to mind to go along with it.
"There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness"- Have We Got Matthew Shepard All Wrong? | Advocate.com
Pretty disgusting statement that provides clear light on the liberal mind. That being of course, any lie will do if it can advance the cause they push.
Ok, just so we are clear....the original story of Matthew Shepard being tortured and killed by 'redneck, bigot, yahoo's' often used by LGBT supporters to politicize the "right" as being behind opposition to gay rights, is FALSE! In fact he was brutally killed by not only people he knew, but other gay, or bi, drug users on a meth binge for his drugs....
Where is the evidence that Shepard sold meth or any drugs?
If it says that in an anonymous letter, then it must be true!!
The fact that the perps admitted to torturing and killing him should be ignored.
Are you counting the times you do it… like this? :2razz:Ok, thanks for clearing that up....Regardless of it happening on both sides, I would say that more often this is a liberal tactic to further agendas....That's my opinion ofcourse.
I'd suggest reason number one - money. I doubt he's lying as such but this kind of book will often offer whatever speculative conclusion will stir up the most controvercy.Oh, you think Jinenez is lying? Why would he?
Please read the articles provided by myself, and others in the thread....From the Advocate article....
"By several accounts, McKinney had been on a meth bender for five days prior to the murder, and spent much of October 6 trying to find more drugs. By the evening he was so wound up that he attacked three other men in addition to Shepard. Even Cal Rerucha, the prosecutor who had pushed for the death sentence for McKinney and Henderson, would later concede on ABC’s 20/20 that “it was a murder that was driven by drugs.”
Why is it reasonable? There could be plenty of reasons that the letter is anonymous...Drugs involved being one of them...
Are you counting the times you do it… like this?
I'd suggest reason number one - money. I doubt he's lying as such but this kind of book will often offer whatever speculative conclusion will stir up the most controvercy.
Please read the articles provided by myself, and others in the thread....From the Advocate article....
"By several accounts, McKinney had been on a meth bender for five days prior to the murder, and spent much of October 6 trying to find more drugs. By the evening he was so wound up that he attacked three other men in addition to Shepard. Even Cal Rerucha, the prosecutor who had pushed for the death sentence for McKinney and Henderson, would later concede on ABC’s 20/20 that “it was a murder that was driven by drugs.”
Whether it was a hate crime, a drug crime, or a combination of the two, it’s hard to shake the suspicion that self-hate and a misguided culture of masculinity, which taught McKinney to abhor in himself what Shepard had learned to embrace, was as complicit as anything else in the murder of Matthew Shepard.
The prosecutor says this was a drug fueled killing.
Does that mean that Shepard was a drug dealer? Sheesh.
And we have no way to find out. Without that corroboration, we should not give it any weight, since we know nothing about it.
It means what it says, the murder was driven by drugs, not by homophobia....Next!
Oh, so attacking me personally solve the question right? :roll:
And the fact that a 'gay publication' the Advocate seem to agree with Jimenez, and the Prosecutor says that the murder was driven by drugs should all be ignored right?
Cal Rerucha never said that Sheperd was killed for drugs. You are being dishonest to imply that...
It means what it says, the murder was driven by drugs, not by homophobia....Next!
That is, of course, a kind of hate crime — just not as straightforward as the one we’ve embraced all these years.
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