10. Shit on the Matt Shepard murder: Matthew Shepard's funeral

At Matthew Shepard's funeral, a shit ton of people showed up, they filled two churches and were spilling out onto the grounds outside. The Westbro Baptist Church showed up to protest his funeral and a lesbian college student got about 12 people to go surround him with angels so he couldn't be heard. This really spoke to me because that's exactly what I would do, those assholes deserve anything they get. It was really cool how so many people showed up to mourn Matt, it goes to show that people care no matter how controversial it is.

I reflect on the first act of The Laramie Project

The first act of The Laramie Project is mostly about the background leading up to the murder of Matt Shepard. One line really struck me, "Conservative Christians use the Bible to show the rest of the world, It says here in the Bible. And most Americans believe it, and they do, that the Bible is the word of God." This is from the Unitarian minister in Laramie. He said this because he believed that the Bible isn't literal, in today's times at least, and should be taken as guidelines to live by, not literal definitions.

This is a picture of Matt Shepard, probably his senior picture. This shows him as a happy boy, not the beaten pictures of him after the hate crime. It's terrible that this happened to him, and it's also terrible that some people thought that it was the right thing to do, and were very apathetic about his case.

This tells me that his parents were hurt even more than shown on TV, it also shows me that they really wanted the men who did this to Matt to go to hell, I would too if this happened to my son.