Speaker 1: Since that time of year again where the Matthew Shepherd
story is being retold, not the true story, but the story,
the myth. It's important. It's funny because people admit it's
a myth and then still say it's important that we
tell the myth, and they accuse us of a false gospel,
accuse Christians of that. So how does the Matthew Shepherd
myth help same sex attracted people. We'll talk about this
with the help of Bulwark Capital Management at Know Your
Risk podcast dot com and with God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in these
the times through which God has decided we shall live.
Where were you? Do you remember when you heard about
what was done to Matthew Shepherd and how horrific it was.
I remember hearing about it and just being beside myself
with grief, and I still am. It's a very sad story.
But this is from one of the media coverages of
this have came from Vanity Fair on their site now
they have their old print Meg and it's now an images.
So there's an image, of course of a half necked girl.
Nothing to do with me. That's just the image that
came up. Sorry for that. The article is called the
Crucifixion of Matthew Shepherd. It just gives you a look
back into what Vanity Fair was and continues to be.
The Crucifixion of Matthew Shepherd Melanie Melanie Thurnstrom, tied to
a wooden fence, tortured, left to die, twenty one year
old Matthew Shepard, a bright, sensitive freshman at the University
of Wyoming, has become a national symbol of violence against gays.
It's killers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, products of a
grim world of drugs, alcohol, broken homes, and twisted dreams,
have been charged with first degree murder, and the ton
of Larimrie, home to all three stands, revealed as an
American paradox, god fearing friendly place that harbors deep and
lingering prejudice. Melanie Thurnstrom explores the hidden topography of a killing.
I don't tell me. I could do an NPR voice
over coming that was okay, I'd have to be a
little bit more emotionless though. Yeah, it's horrific because he
was killed for being the same sex attracted dude in
a red neck land. That's the myth. Now, the reality
is not any better. Doesn't make it a better killing.
It can't be made better. It was murder, murder of
a young guy, and yeah, it's true he had been
in college at a time when we were putting together
this show. This morning, God reminded me that we can
look at this through the construct of NPR. Here I
was joking about doing the NPR delivery. We can look
at this through the construct of NPR. And incidentally, this
miss still persists. I was just looking at this online
and see that there are still people propagating this myth,
and those tweets are getting retweeted, and the tiktoks are
getting reticked and retalked. So, how does this help same
sex attracted people? The advocate thinks this helps same sex
attracted people. They admit that we'll get to that that
they admit it's all a myth, but it's a really
important myth. How does it help same sex attracted people
to believe that if they go to Larrymie Wyoming, they're
going to end up unalived because they are same sex attracted.
How does that help healing? How does it help to
ignore the other pathologies which incidentally, incidentally, and we're not
supposed to say this, We're never supposed to say this.
There's a lot of pathologies that often predate the arrival
at being same sex attracted. There's the pathologies of today
where young girls are being exposed to young men and
boys who have grown up believing that part of the
great joy of joining in sexual union is choking your
partner out with both hands while she does things to
you because women like that. And they're young girls whose
first sexual experience involves being choked. What's wrong? What's wrong?
The women on my phone like it when they're choked.
And suddenly you have girls saying, you know what, I think?
I am same sex attracted. So these pathologies, why is
it helpful to same sex attracted people to ignore that
these pathologies are occurring, or to society, or to people
who would otherwise be opposite sex attracted and fruitful and
multiplying and following God's plan for marriage. Perhaps perhaps it
can be same sex attracted and be way outside of
God's plan and you could be married in God's plan
and then being able to be fruitful in a marital
union working in the design of God. So how does
it help the Matthew Shepherd myth? How does it help
same sex attracted people? Maybe Catherine Marr, the CEO of
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Katherine mar You remember this, and it helps us frame
up the Matthew Shepherd myth that continues to propagate this. Now,
what is it twenty seven years? Twenty seven years after
that young man met a really tragic ends.
Speaker 3: One of the most significant differences critical from moving from
polarization to productivity is that the wikipedians who write these
articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth. They're working
for something that's a little bit more attainable, which is
the best of what we can know right now, and
after seven years there, I actually believe that they're onto
something that for our most tricky disagreements. Seeking the truth
and seeking to convince others of the truth isn't necessarily
the best place to start. In fact, I think our
reverence for the truth might become might have become a
bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding
consensus and getting important things done.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ said, I am the way the truth in
the life. No one comes to the Father but through me.
So the truth is a distraction I see now. Incidentally,
part of the game people play when they do visionary things,
and back in the day I got to do visionary
stuff in tech. Part of the game you play is
you say something that's super provocative that way, and the
audience sits there like, oh, my gosh, did she just
say a reverence for truth is a problem? And they're
sitting forward and can she possibly defend that? And oh
my gosh, she's willing to break barriers and she's willing
to say brave things, and yes, oh my gosh, she'd
never thought of it that way. My mind is blown.
She was at Wikipedia the time, which, of course, as
you know, has been used from time to time as
a stock pump and dump device. Did you know that
a friend of mine investigated this on behalf of the
guy who ran overstock dot Com because they were watching
it happen a great proof of this, and he wrote
an article about it, and that article got posted, and
he'd been investigating in Wikipedia from his small town in Utah,
investigating it and documenting the pump and dump. He ended
up in Forbes. He ended up going back and getting
interviewed on CNBC about this, and then Wikipedia shut down
access to Wikipedia for his entire town in Utah. It
was Bountiful. The entire town of Bountiful, Utah could not
access Wikipedia because jud had written this article that they
never came back and sued him for. They never said
it wasn't true. So in a pursuit of truth, it's
in the way of getting things done. So when we
get to the crucifixiate of Matthew Shepherd, which of course
is provocative in of itself, he wasn't crucified. How does
this serve same sex attracted people? There's the Matthew Shepherd
Foundation and it is still communicating and they're very clever
how they do this, the Matthew Shepherd Foundation, They're very clever.
This is a video they put out. This is very clever.
Watch very carefully, listened, very carefully.
Speaker 4: The story of Matthew Shepherd didn't start in nineteen ninety eight. Matt,
as we called him, was born on December first, nineteen
seventy six, in Casper, Wyoming, living a pretty typical Wyoming life.
His family would later move overseas, where he gained a
love of languages, travel, politics, and a close network of
friends from around the world, but his college career would
eventually bring him back home to Wyoming.
Speaker 5: On October seventh, nineteen ninety eight, Matt was brutally attacked,
tied to a fence, and left to die five days later.
Speaker 1: Kay the image says homophobia kills, what does the voiceoversay?
Speaker 5: Passed away at age twenty one, His life and tragic
death would forever change the way we talk about hate.
Inspired by their personal tragedy, his parents, Judy and Dennis,
founded the Matthew Shepherd Foundation to support LGBTQ plus youth,
inadvertently becoming parental figures to thousands of queer people around
the world while giving the community a voice that would
truly change hearts and minds. Their commitment to erase hate
led to over fourteen hundred appearances in twenty four countries,
a collection of resources to support legacy work inspired by
Matt's story, the country's first federal hate crimes legislation to
include sexual orientation and gender identity, and the creation of
one of the most authentic ally voices of our time,
Judy Shepherd.
Speaker 1: It's really clever because only the image says homophobia kills
and time In that video do they say that Matthew
was killed because he was same sex attracted. But what
would you think if you were watching this video? That's
what happened, right? How is this helpful? I would really
be curious to know from his parents what happened. I mean,
it sounds almost idyllic. He got to travel the worlds,
he came back to his hometown to pursue college. What happened, Oh,
he was just out at a bar and he happened
to mention his same sex attracted and a couple of
rednecks pulled him out of the bar and tied him
to a fence posts and beat him and left him
there to freeze to death. That's what happened. And nothing
went wrong with matt He was never anything was wrong
with him. That's really tragic that that never happened. It's
tragic that what happened happened. I reflect on this outside
of the Matthew Shepherd affair, and I reflect on it
in terms of in vitro fertilization and same sex attracted
men purchasing babies, and I do mean purchasing them, and
to reflect on the fact that if you track the
outcomes of kids who grow up in same sex attracted
parented homes to men to women, the outcomes are profoundly
less advantageous good than kids who grow up in opposite
sex attracted homes. Profoundly so. And you would think, I
would think that we would want to speak into the
lives of same sex attracted people to say, hey, you
know what, See it's in your heart that you want
to have kids, you want to have some, and you're
willing to purchase one or two or three or four.
Do you want to have the heartache of knowing that
those outcomes are statistically speaking, never as good as opposite
sex attracted homes. I shouldn't say never, but statistically speaking
far less likely to be happy. And you want them
informed of that, because if you've ever been a parent,
and I am, and I have folks my age who
are parents have kids who are much older, further into blood.
The pain your kids go through, it cuts you in
unique ways. It harms you in unique ways. It can
suck from you life, energy and unique ways. And I
would think I would want to tell them that. And
it's easy as a parent to look at dark times
in your kid's life and to feel like you did that.
It's much much better to step back and look at
the changes, like in the case of our daughter. Dear God,
thank you, Dear God, Thank you for giving my wife
the diligence and the intelligence and the focus and the
willings to sacrifice everything. Thank you for letting us see
what happens when that when when we abide Gosh, just
bless you, bless you. So those are great moments that
everybody hopes to have, seeing your kid come into themselves.
And it's also easy to say, yeah, but it didn't
have to have the dark time. So wrapped up the
lie about Matthew Shepherd, of course, is this lie about
same sex attracted men purchasing babies in bulk. That that's
brave and it's stunning, and the kids are going to
have good homes and no one's abusing that system. No one,
for instance, is taking that system and abusing it to
purchase kids to then use as sexual objects for themselves
and for sale, when in fact that's happened probably fourteen
times we know about. Some of it's very mechanical, as
in purchasing I think six babies at once, with the
design and the full purpose of doing that to them.
How does it help same sex attracted people to not
tell that part of the purchasing a baby's story? How
does it help same sex attracted people to divorce things
like sexual assault that can turn people towards same sex attraction,
towards gender defiance, towards gender confusion. How does it help
them to hide these pathologies to ought to refuse to
offer them. Do you know sometimes this is a trauma response?
Are you sure this is not a trauma response? Well,
because this myth is so vitally important, as the advocate's
about to explain, I'll show you here a tweet in
a second that got a huge bit of circulation on
the anniversary of the death or at least the discovery
of Matthew Shepherd. Out there right back up to the
Atlantic article with the softcore porn in it, and to
me that's also fascinating. We have a sexual pathology that
they're saying was responsible for Matthew Shepherd's death, and on
the reverse page they're selling clothing with an anorexic looking
sexually pathologized image. Vanity Fair can't see the side by
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twenty five. That's three three eight. This got tons and
tons of action on social media. The Angry Ostrich twenty
seventy years ago today, Matthew Shepherd died after being beaten, tortured,
tied to a fence, and left for dead, all for
being gay. Reports from those who found Matthew indicated that
he had only two spots on his face not covered
in blood, the trail of tears that ran from his
eyes in memory Matthew Shepard, October twelve, nineteen ninety eight. Yeah,
it's terrible, and the truth is terrible, and the myth
is terrible. You shall not lie. You cannot bring Matthew
sheperd back to life. Jesus conquered death. He brought himself
back to life, conquered death. Those of us who accept
Jesus christis or Savior, we speak it with our mouths,
We confess them with our mouths. We agree to be
changed by him. We signify this through baptism, and we
take that first important step prior to all of that,
or repenting of our sins, which involves true sorrow. Repent
except Jesus signify through baptism are going to be changed.
Then we conquer death through him. He does for us.
The lies can't bring Matthew Shepherd back to life, and
the truth can't. But the truth can do something the
lies cannot. The truth can Pride check the organizations that
make money from this myth, I said, pride check, not
fact check. Why do they continue to tell the lie
because they would have to come back and say, we're wrong.
But we've been wrong so long that it's been insane.
Thing to our advantage. I was watching a documentary a
few years ago about guys who got caught in stolen
valor pretending to have served in the military, or pretending
to do ben in combat, you know, inflating the role
they did play if they served. And they talked to
this guy and said, and he had a house filled
with military memorabilia, weapons, patches, pictures. He had gone to
the extent of a searching through black and white military
photos until he found a guy who looked a lot
like him when he was young. And he'd gone to
the extent of getting these pictures and getting them made
into something that looked like old photos, and it looked
like photographic paper. And he had these things or film
had these on his wall in his office, and he
had those back on a bookcase that he only showed
his good friends. And they talked to him and said, like,
you've been caught, You've been shamed. This is prior to
their being a law against this. How did it start?
And he said that he was out to dinner with
a couple of friends and the waitress came along and said, hey,
are either of you service members? We give a discount?
He said, yeah, I served. Oh okay, where you go
to should discount? And he didn't know these guys, well, oh,
we're to serve, and the story began. So these are
some colleagues from work and first time they really hung
out together. Goes to work the next day, his boss
come says, hey, I didn't know your vet. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know. I don't like I don't like talking about it.
Oh okay, what we know we have a veterans program.
Yet you know what, I don't like those things. You know,
I did my job and it was my job, and
they don't like any of that special recognition. So please
don't do that. Just you know, thank you for telling me.
Thank you, But we don't need to spread this around,
went back to the guy, I said, hey, I really
appreciate you guys saying that. It's just you know, I
think people get too prideful of that, and it was
it was a job, and you know, well what you do.
And then it kind of got spread around a little
bit more because people always so humble. Isn't want people
to know. But the feelings he got from this validate
him in ways that his job didn't. His job was
not something that he thought was important. It was it
was providing an income. So he started to mithbuild and
it got to that point where he actually devoted himself
to finding someone who served, who looked like him as
a young guy, and putting this in a special place
in his office where people would say, do you have
any pictures if you're serving? Yeah, I really don't shield
this around because you know it's but hey, it's come
into my office, goes into his little dead there and
there's there's the pictures and some medals. Wow wow wow wow.
And all the while he knew I am lying, I'm
going to get caught. He thought about moving to another
area and starting over, but the myth was so important
to him, and the myth of Matthew Shepherd has become
so important to so many of these organizations and so
important to believe because it puts you on the right side.
We stand against the rednecks in Laramie, Wyoming who felt
it was okay to go torture and kill a man
because he was gay. We stand against that. That's what
we stand against. I don't know what you stand for,
but we stand for the freedom to go to Laramie,
Wyoming is the same sex attracted man. And if you're
not on our side, you're on the side of the
people who took Matthew Shepherd and tied him to a
fence and crucified him. That's hate. You stand with hate.
We are erasing hate. You are writing it into the record.
We are the good guys and you are the bad guys.
And Matthew Shepherd was a college student on the way
to a promising career. And these rednecks, these drug addicted,
drug dealing rednecks. That's a powerful myth. So it happens
that a gentleman decided to look into this story and
he wrote a book. It took him about thirteen years
to write this book. He was going to go back
and write a screenplay. His name is Stephen Jimenez. The
book is called The Book of matt It took him
thirteen years. He had just intended to write a screenplay
about the murder of a guy in Redneckville for the
crime of being same sex attracted. So let's get into
that a second. So this guy decided to look into
the death. Stephen Jimenez said to look into the death
of Matthew Shepherd, and Revolver dot News pointed you to
this in their article. This month marks the twenty seventh
anniversary of one of the most powerful us ssiops. So,
writing in The Guardian about Matthew Shepherd's story, read this,
but the Matthew Shepherd story is not yet finished. A
new twist came last year with the publication of another book,
this one by investigative journalist Stephen Amenez, who spent thirteen
years interviewing more than one hundred people with a connection
to the case. His conclusion, outlined in the Book of
matt Hidden Truce about the murder of Matthew Shepherd, is
that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but
could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that
was flooding Denver and the surrounding areas at the time
of Matthew's death. The new theory has understandably caused a
lot of anger. He Menez faced a barrage of criticism
since the publication of his book and has had readings
to promote the book Boycotted. Hemenez claims, however, that many
of his critics have not yet actually read it. The
Advocate Americans Leading LGBT so called t LGB so called
TA magazine published a piece last year entitled why I'm
not reading the Trutherism about Matthew Shepherd. Amenez has been
accused of being a revisionist, a criticism you should reserve
for extreme right wing ideologues that deny the Holocaust, and
labeled a homophobe in this thirteen years he spent investigating this,
there is no sign that he was a right wing homophobe.
There was no sign that he was right wing at all.
He intended to make a screenplay about a tragedy. Back
to The Guardian, Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to
in dealing crystal meth and a dabbled and heroin. He
also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside
Aaron McKinney, one of his killers with whom he'd had
occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time
of his death. This does not make the perfect poster
boy for the gay rights movement sis Semonez, which is
a big part of the reason why my book was
so trashed Matthew's drug abuse in the fact that he
knew one of his killers prior to the attack was
never export in court. Neither was the rumor that the
killers knew that he had access to a shipment of
crystal meth with a street value of ten thousand dollars,
which they wanted to steal. Matthew was born into an
affluent family and had attended State College, a state school
in Casper, Whoming. The twenty one year old political silence
major at a major at Lermie University, stood only five
to two inches tall in his blonde hair and braces
and slight frame given him air vulnerability. Since in his
junior year of high school, Matthew moved his family to
Saudi Arabia. There were no American high schools in Saudi
at the time, so he was sent to the American
school in Switzerland. By the time he enrolled at Laramie,
he spoke three languages had aspirations to be human rights advocate.
Somewhere along the line, however, Matthew fell from being a
Grade A student to a drug addicted prostitute who diced
with danger. He suffered periods of depression, possibly as a
result of being gang raped a few years earlier while
on holiday in Morocco. Hmm, gosh, wasn't I asking earlier
in the show what went wrong? That seemed idyllic? What
went wrong? I would think being gang raped horrific. I
would think it would feel as if Satan was pouring
out wrath on you. I would think one might even
be tempted to be ashamed, even though you never did anything.
I would think Matthew Shepherd was haunted by that. I
would think that's an important detail. I would have hoped
that Matthew would have had the Lord to turn to.
He did have the Lord, but maybe not the knowledge.
He had money, affluence college, but didn't have the capacity
to go to the Lord and to say, why me,
why me? What am I to learn from this? Help
me forgive, help me be cleansed. Though it wasn't my fault.
He didn't have that. He had what a lot of
people in twenty twenty five America have. He had people
telling him brave and stunning, embrace who you are. Don't
worry about how it came about, just be that. So
Stephen Demanez was actually welcome to Bay Area Television, which
is in seemed to me because Bayer Television is not
a place I would think that this author could get
a friendly heary, but he did. It went on un
talked about his book. There's soul a lot to get to,
such as the Advocate now effectively admitting Stephen the Menez
is right, but the myth is so important. They sound
a lot like Catherine Mayer. We'll get to that in
a second. Stephen de Menez sat down in San Francisco
Television and KPIX talking about the story of Matthew Shepherd's
and writing of the book and what he discovered. This
is a brief bit. There's a link to the full video,
which is fascinating.
Speaker 6: It was centered around the drug methamphetamine, which at the
time really was not being reported on nationally. Remember this
is fifteen years ago. In nineteen ninety eight, meth was
already becoming a very big problem in Wyoming and in
other states in the Midwest and the West, but it
really wasn't being discussed. And at the very same time,
it was also starting to become a serious problem in
the gay community, in urban gay enclaves. And it wasn't
until five six years after Matthew's murder that people really
began to look seriously at this problem and the national
media began to report on it.
Speaker 7: Why did it take so long? Because I remember in
nineteen ninety eight when he was killed, so viciously killed,
he was left at a fence for what eighteen hours?
He was tied to a fence, eighteen hours. He died
five days later. We all remember that, and there was
so much national media attention on this, and it was
considered a hate crime. Why did we hear about drugs then?
Speaker 6: Well, I think one reason, Michelle, is that very quickly
all the records in the case were sealed by the
court and all the witnesses were placed under a gag order,
And that went on for one year from shortly after
the crime until after the principal perpetrator, Aaron McKinney was
convicted and sent away for two life sentences. It wasn't
until after that time period, and that's when I went
to Laramie that the records were really available, and by
that point journalists thought the story was over.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say because journalists were idiots. He doesn't say
because they sent out to lie. He gives them grace.
They didn't know, but they reported it like they knew
because it should have been true. I mean Laramie, Wyoming.
These are rednecks. Of course, they killed the guy because
he's gay. They're rednecks. That's what rednecks do. They kill
gay guys. When you're the national media and people like us.
I live in North Idaho, people like us are foreign
to you, it's easy to make these miss up or
keep propagating him. This was propagated on October five of
this year. This is a so called priest father Jim
chic Sicco. Twenty six years ago tomorrow, Matthew Shepard was
beaten and left for dead, tied to a fence and whaleming.
The only part of his face not covered in blood.
In blood was two white lines running down his cheeks
from where his tears ran dry. Is death ignited a
fight for equality. You don't have to be gay. To
be a supporter, you just have to be human. Now,
he doesn't say the so called priest, and I say
so called because he appears to be a career liar.
He doesn't say that Matthew Shepard was killed because he
was gay, because he probably knows better. And that line
about the two tiers, the only place not covered in
blood was where his tears ran down. Maybe that's true.
It's also an image they put out constantly and continue
to pretend because he was same sex attracted. There is
a podcast called silver Linings The Silver Lining Handbook podcasts
of interesting conversations hosted by former New York Times reporter
writer Jason Blair. Stop and think, Jason Blair. Jason Blair,
does that name bring back any memories? It did for me.
After I listened to this piece, I thought, ah, yeah,
Jason Blair, this is from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: It takes a while, because you know people, it's everything
they do is a learned behavior pretty much, and everything
trickles down from like our ancestors and how we were raised.
That's how we're the people we are. If a parent
is going to be homophobic, they're going to probably raise
their kids homophobic, and those kids will raise their kids homophobic.
So you know, there's a lot of deprogramming that needs
to be done within people because of how they grew up.
Speaker 1: Here's how they describe a podcasts at the Silver Linings Handbook,
The brutal murder of Matthew Shepherd, a gay University of
oilbing student, shocked America, the American Conscience and Mine. C
aj Johnson, the host of Rainbow Crimes, joins me Tuesday
to discuss that moment in covering crimes against those who
are LGB so called T and Q. Jason Blair, I
thought that name struck a bell. I went to the
magic Google machine and even let an AI answer It's
AI answer it for me. The Jason Blair controversy refers
to the two thousand and three scandal where former New
York Times reporter Jason Blair was exposed for journalistic fraud,
including plagiarizing and fabricating stories. The scandal led to the
resignation of two top editors, a major blow to the
newspaper's credibility as if it had any, and prompted industry
to ride changes in editorial standards and accountability. Well it
didn't temporarily. He actually it was really good fiction. If
you read Jason Blair articles like Wow, this guy's a
great reporter. This almost like reading fiction that Chason Blair
we had no problem doing it then and apparently has
no problem doing it now. Remember Catherine Merris quote, our
reverence for the truth gets in the way of getting
things done. Here's the advocate writing, there are valuable reasons
for telling certain stories in a certain way at a
pivotal time, at pivotal times, but that doesn't mean we
have to hold on to them once they've outlived their usefulness.
In his book Flagrant Conduct, Dale Carpenter, professor at the
University of Minnesota Law School, similarly unpicks the notorious case
of Lawrence versus Texas, in which the arrest for two
men having sex in their own bedroom became a vehicle
for affirming the right of gay couples to have consensual
sex and private except that the two men were not
having sex, and we're not even a couple yet. This
non story, carefully edited and taken all the way to
Supreme Court, changed America in different ways. The shepherds story
We've come to embrace was just as necessary for shape
the history of gay rights is Lawrence versus Texas that
galvanized the generation of LGB so called T youth, and
stung lawmakers into action. President Obama, who signed the Hate
Crimes Prevention Act, named for Shepherd and James Byrd Junior,
into law in October twenty eight, two thousand and nine,
credited Judy Shepherd for making him quote passionate about LGB
so called T equality. There are obvious reasons why advocates
of hate crime legislation must want to preserve one particular
version of the Matthew Shepard story, but it was always
just that a version. Jimenez's version is another. An article
goes on to say, were well researched sounds a lot
like Catherine Maryer. Jesus Christ said, I am the Way,
the Truth in the life. No one comes to the Father,
but through me we cannot get anything done, anything that
matters in an eternal sense without Jesus, without being attached
to the mind. He is the truth, the way in
the life, the way, the truth and the life. Our
reverence for the truth is reverence for God. You should
not lie lies of convenience, lies to cover lies that
are embarrassing lies to cover things that you are doing
to yourself. I'm not really addicted to drugs. I just
dabble or lies about Matthew Shepherd. They don't help you,
and the lies about Matthew Shepherd do not help the
community of same sex attracted people. This is the Todd Hermanshaw.
Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, Please make
every effort to walk in the light of Christ. And
I hope you're cooking up a good weekend with your
beloved family like I hope to be cooking up with mine.