Matthew Shepards Case _ new information not being told
Although I have not seen it much in the news, new information has been produced regarding the Matthew Shepard case. If you recall Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998 brutally. It brought big news due to Matthew happened to also be a homosexual. The gay activity groups used Matthew Shepard as an icon for the hate crime bill. With the activity group pushing to add homosexuality on the hate crime bill, the news of Matthew Shepard murder helped facilitate it.
I seen a snippet on 20/20 with new knowledge proving the Matthew Shepard case was not a hate crime. Although this is significant, I do not believe enough news has been given to it.
I recall a book I once read where a character had setup a church to look like a terrorist organization. The character understood once the FBI had done an investigation, it would show to be a setup. However, the character also knew by the time the truth was unfolded, no-one would really care or recall the truth, rather the big lie__the church was a terrorist organization.
This same scenario was done with the Matthew Shepard case. The gay activist took this unfortunate activity and wields it to their own use. Now we have the truth, the case was not a hate crime. However, he was used for another purpose and agenda. Recently Focus on the Family has requested Katie Couric to retract her anti-Christian statements after the Matthew Shepard story. NBC had refused to do so. I will post the full article below.
I condemn the act against Matthew Shepard; I also condemn the gay activist to take his murder and use it for their own personal agenda.
NBC Stands Behind Couric's Anti-Christian Comments
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Talon News) -- A network executive with NBC News sent a letter to conservative Christian group Focus on the Family last week refusing to comply with their request that "The Today Show" host Katie Couric apologize for her anti-Christian comments during a broadcast just days after a so-called "hate crime" was committed against Matthew Shepard.
Focus on the Family said Couric commented that Biblical teachings on homosexuality incited the 1998 murder of Shepard. But, a recent news report on ABC's "20/20" program revealed that Shepard's death was not an anti-gay "hate crime" as has been popularly promoted for the past six years.
Focus on the Family President Don Hodel contacted NBC to ask them to disavow Couric's remarks in the days following the crime since they have been found to have no merit.
Hodel points to an interview Couric was conducting on October 12, 1998, when she asked the then-governor of Wyoming, where the attack took place, whether "conservative political organizations like the Christian Coalition, the Family Research Council, and Focus on the Family are contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere" by suggesting that gays should change their sexual orientation.
"That prompts people to say, 'If I meet someone who is homosexual, I'm going to take action and try to convince them or try to harm them,'" Couric exclaimed at the time.
NBC News sent the letter to Focus on the Family on December 8 stating that they would not honor the ministry's request for an apology.
In fact, NBC News Executive Producer For Broadcast Standards David McCormick stood behind Couric's statements about Focus on the Family and said no apology is necessary.
"There was a great deal of speculation that the crime may have been motivated by hate" at the time, McCormick argued.
"If you look closely at the transcript of the interview, you will note that Ms. Couric was quoting 'gay activists' who were quite vocal at the time of Mr. Shepard's death," McCormick continued. "She was not making a statement of fact and she was certainly not insinuating that" Christians were responsible for Shepard's murder.
Hodel disagrees.
"As we all know, the tone and manner with which a question is posed can convey a great deal of information," Hodel responded to McCormick last Thursday. "It was clear six years ago, and remains clear today, that Ms. Couric's tone and manner were not that of an impartial journalist seeking the truth about a tragedy. It was the tone and manner of an advocate intent on repeating an unfounded accusation disguised as a question."
Because Couric named three specific Christian organizations, including Focus on the Family, Hodel said she was carrying out her own anti-Christian agenda even when there were no facts to back up her claims about them.
"[Couric] asserted the gay rights activists' charges of 'contributing to this anti-homosexual atmosphere' by having an ad campaign that suggested that gay people might like to change their orientation," Hodel recalled. "It was definitely a 'have you stopped beating your wife?' type of question."
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