Been working my way through the various threads on this, and maybe i missed it, but i think my original point when i posted "Another taste..." is this:
Matt Shepard was MURDERED. Period. It doesn't matter one iota if he was gay or anything else. The people who killed him were WRONG and MURDERERS. To put a monument in a public park proclaiming that he "went to Hell" is INFLAMMATORY and IMMORAL.
Whatever peace he made with his god on the days he hung dying on that barbed-wire fence will never be known by any mortal in this life. How dare ANYONE feel triumphant over his death, and presume to declare where his soul went?
Thank you.
-mw.
Matt Shepard was MURDERED. Period. It doesn't matter one iota if he was gay or anything else. The people who killed him were WRONG and MURDERERS. To put a monument in a public park proclaiming that he "went to Hell" is INFLAMMATORY and IMMORAL.
Whatever peace he made with his god on the days he hung dying on that barbed-wire fence will never be known by any mortal in this life. How dare ANYONE feel triumphant over his death, and presume to declare where his soul went?
Thank you.
-mw.
-mw.
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
-Juvenal.
QUID RIDES? MUTATO NOMINE DE TE FABULA NARRATUR.
-Horace.
