Matthew Shepard

We went over this topic a while ago, but I still wanted to do a blog about it.

The Matthew Shepard case. Before I go on, I am fully against what happened to him.

My issue with what we went over in class is this: why does America feeling like what happened to him was wrong need to also mean that America changes it's whole stance on homosexuality?

No one deserves to be lured out of a bar, beaten, and left for dead. No one, regardless of their sexual orientation, race, political views, for picking their nose and eating it, etc. It's just wrong, and any right minded person can see that. But that doesn't mean that we now have to agree with his personal lifestyle.

The fact of the matter is that people are being murdered everyday for a multitude of reasons, and it's sickening. That's what people are upset about - not the fact that it happened to a gay man. It happens to all different types of people. It's a real problem. We need to start loving everyone as an equal. Yes, we should accept that everyone has their own lifestyle, but we don't have to agree with it.