Huge deal. Thank heaven the country is finally taking him, and others like him, into its embrace.



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"The Country"?

Not Westboro Baptist Church

Not Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints



But yeah, we're doing better as a nation. Praise Jesus!

The country is much bigger than the WBC and the Mormons.

Is it good enough yet? Absolutely not. But I will take what I can get.

Did he get his temple ordinances done yet? How did they round up the gay Mormons to do the dead dunking and endowment? Was the anointing a turn-on?

Thank you EOD. "Some" of America has done the right thing.

I still cry the deepest most haunting weep when I hear the song by Elton John about Matthew Shepard. Even now. Because I had to listen to it again.



The chorus from "American Triangle":


'Western skies' don't make it right
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
Left to die on a high ridge fence
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming"


It's about the saddest saddest thing I have ever heard.

From an album called "Songs from the West Coast."

I still hear that kind of hurt in some off the posts here. I guess it is why I am addicted to this place.

That one breaks my heart too. Oh who am I kidding... the whole

horrid episode of him being beaten to death still has the power

to make me weep over such hatred and evil. I can't take it no

matter how many times I am reminded of it.

I use Instagram and spend too much time following some family members and some car guys and other “celebrities”. At least a year ago I saw a new account called “The AIDS Memorial” and have been reading it usually daily. It’s an account where people post stories of their loved ones, either relatives or friends or partners who were lost to AIDS. Sometimes it’s the 25th anniversary of their death or similar and sometimes they have just died recently. Sometimes their story is so moving and tragic, and there has been times when I have to go a few days without reading them.

Yesterday, there was a post from a man who talks of the 23rd anniversary of his brothers death. And he mentions that his brother was taught to play the piano by his Mormon mother, and how the poster received news of his brother’s death while he was gone for two years in Germany.

There has been several different posts about Matthew Shepard this week on Instagram.

Here’s 2 links to this story, not sure you can read them if you don’t have an Instagram account.



https://www.instagram.com/p/BpaSni3B4tv/?taken-by=theaidsmemorial


https://www.instagram.com/p/BpacaklBEWj/?taken-by=theaidsmemorial

God I love Thr Episcopal Church!

Why is he being laid to rest 20 years later, They just had his ashes in the house and just decided to do it?

They lived in fear that a public venue would have been desecrated. It's that simple.