Matthew Shepard was the winsome young homosexual in Laramie, Wyoming
who in October 1998 was tortured, killed, and left hanging grotesquely
from a fence. He was discovered almost a day later and later died in the
hospital from his horrific wounds.
On the night of October 6, Shepard met “two strangers” in the
Fireside Lounge in Laramie. The two men offered Shepard a ride home but
instead drove him to a remote area, robbed him, beat him with pistols,
and left him splayed on a fence.
Cops found the bloody gun along with Shepard’s shoes and wallet in
the truck of the two men --- Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson.
McKinney and Henderson claimed the "gay panic" defense, that they
freaked out when Shepard came onto them sexually and killed him in a
rage. They made other claims, too, but were convicted and sentenced to
life in prison.
Almost immediately Shepard became a secular saint, and his killing
became a kind of gay Passion Play where he suffered and died for the
cause of homosexuality against the growing homophobia and hatred of gay
America.
Indeed, a Mathew Shepard industry grew rapidly with plays and
foundations along with state and even national hate crimes legislation
named for him. Rock stars wrote songs about him, including Elton John
and Melissa Etheridge. Lady Gaga performed John Lennon’s "Imagine" and
changed the lyrics to include Shepard.
Thanks to a new book by an award winning gay journalist we now know
that much of this narrative turns out to be false, little more than gay
hagiography.
As gay journalist Aaron Hicklin, writing in The Advocate
asks, “How do people sold on one version of history react to being told
that the facts are slippery --- that thinking of Shepard’s murder as a
hate crime does not mean it was a hate crime? And how does it color
our understanding of such a crime if the perpetrator and victim not only
knew each other but also had sex together, bought drugs from one
another, and partied together?”
This startling revelation comes in The Book of Matt
to be published next week by investigative journalist Stephen Jiminez,
who over the course of years interviewed over 100 people including
Shepard’s friends, friends of the killers, and the killers themselves.
According to The Advocate, one of the premier gay
publications in the country, Jiminez “amassed enough anecdotal evidence
to build a persuasive case that Shepard’s sexuality was, if not
incidental, certain less central than popular consensus had lead us to
believe.”
Even before Shepard died, two of his friends were peddling the
narrative that he died at the hands of vicious homophobes. Within days
the gay establishment latched onto what would drive the hate crimes
story for years to come; even now, the Laramie Project, a stage
play about the killing is performed all over the country. Indeed, it
will be performed next week at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC.
But what really happened to Matthew Shepard?
He was beaten, tortured, and killed by one or both of the men now
serving life sentences. But it turns out, according to Jiminez, that
Shepard was a meth dealer himself and he was friends and sex partners
with the man who led in his killing. Indeed, his killer may have killed
him because Shepard allegedly came into possession of a large amount of
methamphetamine and refused to give it up.
The book also shows that Shepard’s killer was on a five-day meth binge at the time of the killing.
As to be expected, Matthew Shepard Inc. is rallying to denounce the
new narrative that his homosexuality had little or nothing to do with
his murder. The Matthew Shepard Foundation released this statement:
Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law. We do not respond to innuendo, rumor or conspiracy theories. Instead we recommit ourselves to honoring Matthew’s memory, and refuse to be intimidated by those who seek to tarnish it. We owe that to the tens of thousands of donors, activists, volunteers, and allies to the cause of equality who have made our work possible.
The agenda of the sexual left lives on lies. As we all know now, the back-story that brought us Roe v. Wade was a lie. And here we find the Matthew Shepard story was also a lie.
The sexual left approves of such lies because they get to what they consider to be an underlying truth. The author of The Advocate
piece writes, “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.”
Source - http://ow.ly/oSfBN
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If the thesis of this book is right, why would the Political Left hide it for years?
To understand that, we have to remember what leftists want: total power. And in order to get that, they need to remove from their way every institution that claims to have another Source of Authority above the government.
One of the ways to do that, is to create "human rights" that are in total oposition of that institution they want to erradicate. Once they do that, all they need to do is to promote a clash between gay activists and traditionalists.
Whenever a gay man is hurt or killed anywhere in the West (because homosexuals from non-western nations don't count for them), the Political Left uses it as a tool with which attack traditionalists.
That is why Matthew Shepard's tragic death is useful for them, but not the death of all other homosexuals killed in a way impossible to use politically.
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If the thesis of this book is right, why would the Political Left hide it for years?
To understand that, we have to remember what leftists want: total power. And in order to get that, they need to remove from their way every institution that claims to have another Source of Authority above the government.
One of the ways to do that, is to create "human rights" that are in total oposition of that institution they want to erradicate. Once they do that, all they need to do is to promote a clash between gay activists and traditionalists.
Whenever a gay man is hurt or killed anywhere in the West (because homosexuals from non-western nations don't count for them), the Political Left uses it as a tool with which attack traditionalists.
That is why Matthew Shepard's tragic death is useful for them, but not the death of all other homosexuals killed in a way impossible to use politically.
