On 10/13/10, Sage2 <wisdom812@gmail.com> wrote:
Matthew Shepard's death was a tragedy but there are more
Americans killed every year by " illegal immigrants " than there are
gays by so called hate crimes, by far ! Don't hear a peep from
liberals !
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On Oct 13, 9:03 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *The Last Days of Matthew Shepard: October 13*
>
> *
> My late friend Thomas Allen Heald sadly passed away last May. He was a
> humorist, editor and writer, and I want to carry on his tradition of sending
> out one of his works, "The Last Days of Matthew Shepard."
> I do this to honor both Matthew Shepard and my friend Tom Heald. May they
> both rest in peace and may we all learn a lasting lesson from the senseless
> homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard. -Tommy News
> I invite you to join our Matthew Shepard Pride and Tolerance Group here:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MatthewShepardPrideandTolerance/
>
> The Last Days of Matthew Shepard: October 13
> Around the world, this day in 1998:
>
> On NBC's "Today" show, Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign
> suggests that the Religious Right's $500,000 "Ex-gay" newspaper ad
> campaign thus summer may have contributed to Matthew Shepard's death:
> "It's caused a great deal of sadness and grieving and mourning in the
> gay community. (These kinds of violent acts) never happen in a vacuum.
> They happen because people's minds have been twisted with cruel
> stereotypes about gay and lesbian people. And this ad campaign has been
> pumped out all summer presenting gay and lesbian people as defective, as
> being less than others, as not fully human. And young Matthew Shepard
> made one mistake, and that's that he happened to fall into the path of
> someone that had been fed this rhetoric and it came at him full of rage
> and hate."
>
> ---
>
> Both The New York Times editorial board and U.S. Attorney General
> Janet Reno voice their support for including homosexuality in a national
> Hate Crimes Law:
> "Matt Shepard spoke three languages or more. He seemed bright and
> open and full of promise. We will never know what he would have done in
> life. But in death, in a nation sickened by the gratuitous thuggery of
> his murder, he may do much to dispel the stubborn belief in some
> quarters that homosexuals are not discriminated against. They are.
> Hatred can kill. The men accused of killing Matthew Shepard will be
> tried for first-degree murder. But his death makes clear the need for
> hate crime laws to protect those who survive and punish those who attack
> others, whether fatally or not, just because of who they are." (NYT)
> "Current federal law does not permit us to prosecute hate crimes
> based on an individual's gender, disability or sexual orientation. I
> urge Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act this week, which
> would close the gap in the law." (Reno)
>
> ---
>
> The giant gay pride rainbow flag in San Francisco's Castro district
> is lowered to half-staff.
>
> ---
>
> The University of Wyoming Athletics teams announce they will be
> honoring Shepard at each game played this Autumn with symbols on their
> uniforms "in an expression of the ideals of tolerance and diversity."
>
> The memorial logo, also being worn on campus in the form of armbands,
> is a green circle (symbolizing peace) on a yellow background (signifying
> non-violence).
>
> The UW Cowboys football team will wear the markings on their helmets,
> while the women's Cowgirls programs will wear it as a hair ribbon.
>
> ---
>
> Anti-gay minister Fred Phelps announces his traveling circus will be
> demonstrating at Shepard's funeral, and he's demanding the governor's
> office protect his First Amendment rights to free speech, religion and
> assembly. Government intervention is necessary, says Phelps, because
> he's already received seven death threats as spread about his trip to
> Wyoming. "We're not going to tolerate any violence from these
> homosexuals. They are the most violent people in the world. Here they
> are talking about what happened to this poor boy, and they turn around
> and make death threats against us."
>
> Gov. Jim Geringer says he's just determined to keep things peaceful
> at the Friday event since he legally can't stop the Westboro brigade
> from a parking lot protest. Although he notes that the Phelps family's
> presence is "just flat not welcome. What we don't need is a bunch of
> wing nuts coming in."
>
> ---
>
> Candlelight vigils are held nationwide in Mr. Shepard's honor. Gay
> leadership in Los Angeles deems him to be "a martyr to anti-gay hatred."
>
> ===
> "The Last Days of Matthew Shepard October 1998" © 2008 Thomas Allen
> Heald. Sources: CNN, CBS College Sports Network, the US Department of
> Justice, and Focus on the Family's CitizenLink.
>
> *
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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