snowcreature23
10-12-2008, 06:50 PM
This is a little late,but we need to stop and just think for a while, what if this was your son or daughter?
Teach your children love,not hate and mabe the next generation will be more respectful for another human being either Gay,stright,Bi oR TV. Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. Matthew was 21, and was brutally tortured and murdered because he was gay.
Matthew had been lured from a campus bar shortly after midnight on October 7 by two men who told him they were gay. He was driven to a remote area near the Sherman Hills neighborhood east of Laramie, tied to a split-rail fence, tortured, beaten and pistol-whipped by his attackers, while he begged for his life; he was then left for dead in near freezing temperatures. A cyclist who found him on Snowy Mountain View Road at 6:22 pm, some 18 hours after the attack, at first mistook him for a scarecrow. He was unconscious and suffering from hypothermia. His face was caked with blood, except where it had been partially washed clean by tears.
Matthew died at 12:53 am on Monday 12th October 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his family at his bedside. Hospital officials said Matthew had a fracture from behind his head to just in front of his right ear and a massive brain stem injury which affected his vital signs, including his heart beat, body temperature and other involuntary functions. There were also approximately a dozen small lacerations around his head, face and neck. He was so badly injured in the attack that doctors were unable to operate. He never regained consciousness after being found, and remained on full life support.
On this anniversary of his death, might we all take a moment out of our busy lives and think about how anyone could possibly hate so much that they could do this to a human being. Hate in our world needs to come to an end. If we only start ending hate in our homes, then in our work place and the organizations we belong to, it will be a start to putting an end to hatred all together.
Teach your children love,not hate and mabe the next generation will be more respectful for another human being either Gay,stright,Bi oR TV. Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. Matthew was 21, and was brutally tortured and murdered because he was gay.
Matthew had been lured from a campus bar shortly after midnight on October 7 by two men who told him they were gay. He was driven to a remote area near the Sherman Hills neighborhood east of Laramie, tied to a split-rail fence, tortured, beaten and pistol-whipped by his attackers, while he begged for his life; he was then left for dead in near freezing temperatures. A cyclist who found him on Snowy Mountain View Road at 6:22 pm, some 18 hours after the attack, at first mistook him for a scarecrow. He was unconscious and suffering from hypothermia. His face was caked with blood, except where it had been partially washed clean by tears.
Matthew died at 12:53 am on Monday 12th October 1998, at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his family at his bedside. Hospital officials said Matthew had a fracture from behind his head to just in front of his right ear and a massive brain stem injury which affected his vital signs, including his heart beat, body temperature and other involuntary functions. There were also approximately a dozen small lacerations around his head, face and neck. He was so badly injured in the attack that doctors were unable to operate. He never regained consciousness after being found, and remained on full life support.
On this anniversary of his death, might we all take a moment out of our busy lives and think about how anyone could possibly hate so much that they could do this to a human being. Hate in our world needs to come to an end. If we only start ending hate in our homes, then in our work place and the organizations we belong to, it will be a start to putting an end to hatred all together.