I will allow that he certainly did not deserve to die
That's good, it shows that you have at least some shred of humanity in you.
but how many here know that [Matthew] Sheppard grabbed one of those guys on the a$$, and that he had tried to kiss the other?...
Even if that were the case, those guys could have just told him no, shoved him away if he didn't get the message, and called the police if he tried to stalk them. Of course, I seriously doubt he was that type of person. Besides, they singled him out and pretended to be gay just so that they could beat him up later. What part of that don't you understand?
Those rough-necks were so insulted that they led him on a bit, got him out of the place and into a venue that made him a bit more vulnerable, and proceeded to give perky Matty boy a little lesson in Wyoming manners
MANNERS?! MANNERS?! You call beating someone to a pulp, tying him to a fence, and leaving him there to die "manners?!" How dare you make his death seem so frivolous, what the heck is wrong with you?!
Was it bad? Yes, it really was.
But...
But they didn't want to kill him, and it wasn't like they chose him
Of course they didn't. And I'm the Queen of Sheba.
HE'D chosen his lifestyle and he'd chosen THEM. The Sheppard story is a masterpiece of leftist propaganda
Correction: THEY'D chosen what path to take and they chose HIM. Matthew's murder was a hate crime, plain and simple. Nothing changes that, not even your filthy, belittling lies.