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Last month marked the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at the “Club Q,” a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs. The shooter, who killed five people and wounded 19 others, received multiple life sentences in June for his crimes, as well an additional sentence for “bias-motivated” crimes. This seemed to confirm the popular narrative that the shooter targeted the LGBTQ community out of hate.  That narrative was quickly and deliberately spread almost immediately after the shooting. In fact, just days after, The New York Times not-so-subtly suggested a connection between the murders and several conservative Christian ministries headquartered in Colorado Springs, including Focus on the Family. Other media outlets and voices were not as subtle in leveling that accusation. Days later, vandals spray-painted the words “their blood is on your hands” on the entrance to Focus on the Family.  The Club Q shooting was a horrible act of evil. Every one of the victims were made in the image and likeness of God and bore the inherent dignity and value that means. Not one deserved to be reduced to their sexual identity, not by the man who committed these crimes and not by those who would use the victims as pawns to push a false narrative.  In this case, the narrative is a fable that goes back at least as far as the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. Almost immediately after the teenager was brutally killed outside of town, his murder was framed in both national and international media as a clear, cut-and-dried hate crime. In 2009, Congress passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Last year in her dissenting opinion in the 303 Creative case, in which the Supreme Court upheld a Colorado web designer's right to free expression, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Shepard's murder was the result of a “social system of discrimination” that “created an environment in which LGBT people were unsafe.” In fact, just last week, a memorial service was held for Matthew Shepard at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where his ashes are interred.   The real story of Matthew Shepard, however, is anything but clear and cut-and-dried. In 2014, after more than a decade of researching the incident, a gay journalist named Stephen Jimenez released a book that revealed Shepard's long history of drug use. He had, in fact, been selling crystal meth at the time of his murder. He'd also engaged in prostitution and had a sexual relationship with at least one of the men who killed him. The police who intercepted the killers shortly after they fled the scene believed they were heading to Shepard's house to search for drug money. In other words, this murder was not a hate crime. It likely had nothing to do with Shepherd's sexuality.  Many of the tragedies that have been made part of this narrative have similarly inconvenient details. For example, the convicted shooter in the Club Q massacre last year identified himself in court as “nonbinary” and had visited the nightclub multiple times. Though he posted anti-gay slurs online, he seemed quite fascinated with the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter who targeted religious communities. He also came from an abusive background and exhibited significant signs of mental illness.  Justice Sotomayor also mentioned the 2016 shooting at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in her dissenting opinion in 303 Creative. The shooter, who killed 49 people, was a Muslim man who claimed “solidarity” with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. His wife testified that his original plan to attack Disney World was abandoned because of the police presence at the amusement park. It's not clear that the shooter was even aware that the Pulse was a gay club. Nevertheless, that shooting is now cemented in cultural memory as a hate crime against gays.   While there is little evidence that “anti-LGBTQ hatred” has led to many mass shootings, there is more evidence that suggests the opposite. The shooter at Covenant School in Nashville, for example, identified as transgender and seems to have targeted the Christian school on purpose. In August 2012, an LGBTQ activist stormed the headquarters of the Family Research Council with a gun and a Chick-fil-A bag and yelled “I don't like your politics” before shooting a security guard. At least two other mass shooters identified as trans or non-binary, though it is not clear that their identity motivated their actions.  The problem isn't just that re-writing history is wrong, or that it often misplaces blame on some people while excusing others. It's that the myth hurts everyone, including those it's supposedly trying to protect, by ignoring the problems ailing the LGBTQ community. For example, members of this community have disproportionately high rates of substance abuse, childhood sexual abuse, mental illness, family breakdown, violence, and deaths of despair.  Suffering people need help. Conditioning them to be afraid of a nonexistent threat or to view their suffering as only someone else's fault is cruel. These are hard truths indeed, but hard truths are more loving than false narratives.   For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org. 

Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York.What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy.http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=15864221467 years ago #about, #book, #book of matt, #druga, #ed, #hidden, #matt:, #matthew, #matthew shepard, #meth, #murder, #of, #opperman, #report, #shepard, #stephen jimenez, #the, #true crime, #truthsabout 1 year agoThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Stephen Jimenez : The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York. What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=1586422146 7 years ago #about, #book, #book of matt, #druga, #ed, #hidden, #matt:, #matthew, #matthew shepard, #meth, #murder, #of, #opperman, #report, #shepard, #stephen jimenez, #the, #true crime, #truths

Stephen Jimenez : The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew ShepardStephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York.What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy.http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=15864221467 years ago #about, #book, #book of matt, #druga, #ed, #hidden, #matt:, #matthew, #matthew shepard, #meth, #murder, #of, #opperman, #report, #shepard, #stephen jimenez, #the, #true crime, #truths

Stephen Jimenez : The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York. What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=1586422146 7 years ago #about, #book, #book of matt, #druga, #ed, #hidden, #matt:, #matthew, #matthew shepard, #meth, #murder, #of, #opperman, #report, #shepard, #stephen jimenez, #the, #true crime, #truths

Stephen Jimenez author of the Book of Matt, returns and talks about the update to his book and the continued controversy with Matthew Shepard.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Jimenez: Part 2 - Take a walk with me down Fascination Street for PART 2 of my interview with author Stephen Jimenez. Stephen was a screenwriter who went to Laramie, Wyoming in search of enough information to write a screen play about the tragic and gruesome murder of Matthew Shepard. What he found instead were enough bread crumbs to start his own investigation into what REALLY happened that October night in 1998. In this episode we finish our conversation about the details and events that led to the tragic murder of Matthew. We also talk about the impact of this event on the lives of those in Laramie, and on the life of the author. THIS IS PART 2.Follow Stephen on social media:FB: The Book Of MattStephen's website: StephenJimenez.netBuy the book: https://amzn.to/2ESO9Pq

Stephen Jimenez: Part 1 -Take a walk with me down Fascination Street as I get to know author Stephen Jimenez. Stephen was a screenwriter who went to Laramie, Wyoming in search of enough information to write a screen play about the tragic and gruesome murder of Matthew Shepard. What he found instead were enough bread crumbs to start his own investigation into what REALLY happened that October night in 1998. In this episode we chat about what made Stephen want to be a writer, and why he initially went to Laramie. We also talk about some of the details and information that he uncovered, and some of the things that were reported incorrectly, if at all in this highly sensationalized story. THIS IS PART 1.Follow Stephen on social media:FB: The Book Of MattStephen's website: StephenJimenez.netBuy the book: https://amzn.to/2ESO9Pq

Stephen Jimenez stays on for more conversation of Matt Shepard and the false narrative surrounding his murder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Jimenez stays on this hour to follow the trail of meth from Colorado to Wyoming and how Matt Shepard was entrenched in the cultureSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Jimenez visits The Context of White Supremacy. A writer, author and gay male, Mr. Jimenez investigated the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. Shepard was a White male college student who was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. McKinney and Henderson were convicted and both received life sentences without possibility for parole. Shepard's death was originally reported - and continues to be discussed - as a barbaric "hate crime," another victim in the "war on gays." The federal "Hate Crime" bill is eponimously named in honor of him. Jimenez's 2013 publication, The Book Of Matt, challenges this conclusion with more than a decade of research. He submits that many people who knew Shepard were aware that he had a serious drug problem; some suspect that he also trafficked narcotics. Jimenez also reports that Shepard knew one of his assailants, McKinney - who was also a drug addict and distributor. The book's main theory is that Shepard was not killed because he was gay, and that this murder was not a "hate crime." Jimenez theorizes that Wyoming's violent methamphetamine trade was the primary contributor to Shepard's murder. #RacismIsNotAPrivilege INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Stephen Jimenez : The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He is a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting (Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism), an Emmy, and several fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. Jimenez lives in Brooklyn, New York.What role did crystal meth and other previously under reported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=theopprep-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=UP3KAX24Y7M3FL4J&creativeASIN=1586422146This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student in Wyoming was brutally beaten by two men and died from his injuries. His story became synonymous with anti-gay hate crimes. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on.

Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie, Wyoming in 2000, to write a screenplay about the murder of Matthew Shepard. He expected to be researching fairly open-and-shut case which had almost immediately become the national symbol for anti-gay hate crime. What he found, tucked away among the files, was an anonymous letter that would change the course of his work completely. "I was shocked to hear that Aaron McKinney's attorneys claimed gay panic in their defense," the letter began. "Aaron and Russ were quite familiar with gay guys and had frequented gay bars. They became aware of the fact that they had a valuable asset in their pants, and that gay guys would give them shelter, food, and money in return for a few minutes pleasure." The letter also named some mutual acquaintances of Matthew and Aaron, suggesting the two had known each other before the night of the crime, and casting doubt on the pickup-gone-wrong narrative that had been presented in court. Jimenez spent the next thirteen years researching the case and speaking to more than a hundred witnesses. What he ended up with was The Book of Matt - a portrait of the crime that's been met with controversy and has, in fact, been condemned by the Matthew Shepard Foundation and other critics in the media. We sat down with Jimenez this week at an event at Carmichael's Bookstore to ask him about his work, and get his response to some specific criticisms of his conclusions. On this week's episode, we bring you that conversation so you can draw your own conclusions about what's undoubtedly a complex situation._Note: Because Stephen Jimenez was intentionally precise with many of his answers, and due to the controversy surrounding the book, we've decided to run this interview unedited. It's been altered for volume levels only._In our Juicy Fruit segment this week, WFPL's Joseph Lord fills us in on the local case of an Audubon Park police officer who lost his job after complaining about anti-gay harassment. And we reflect on the sad story of Nathan Verhelst, the Belgian trans man who chose doctor-assisted suicide after his body rejected his reassignment surgery.

Is the Iowa Republican Party really divided on illegal police searches?  Not so much.  Then "The Book of Matt" dismantles the martyr status of Matthew Shepard.  Stephen Jimenez.   Then does SCOTUS use Declaration principles to decide cases?

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