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RandySF

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Mon Oct 14, 2013, 12:20 AM Oct 2013

Talk Host Sany Rios: Matthew Shepard Murder A 'Complete Fraud'

Not only did American Family Association talk show host Sand Rios plug the ex-gay movement and warn that gay people are trapped in “a powerful web of deceit” during her Values Voter Summit speech yesterday, but she also cited Stephen Jimenez’s shoddy reporting on the Matthew Shepard case to call his murder a “complete fraud.” She lamented that schools host the play The Laramie Project to teach tolerance to students and said that Shepard’s murder was a result of a “drug deal gone bad.”

Today, we should note, marks the anniversary of Shepard’s death.

She also a read a letter from civil rights groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and People For the American Way, which urged Republican officials to skip the Values Voter Summit. Rios maintained that the letter proves that “it is a dangerous time to be a Christian conservative” in America.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rios-matthew-shepard-murder-complete-fraud#sthash.BUZ7vldS.dpuf

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Talk Host Sany Rios: Matthew Shepard Murder A 'Complete Fraud' (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2013 OP
The far-right are doing backflips because they have a "pet" gay carrying the water! Behind the Aegis Oct 2013 #1

Behind the Aegis

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1. The far-right are doing backflips because they have a "pet" gay carrying the water!
Mon Oct 14, 2013, 12:35 AM
Oct 2013

Nothing makes extremists, especially ones like these, happier than when they can get someone from what ever the target group is to "prove their point." "See...so-and-so said it and he is one of you!! So, I can't be a (insert -ist/-phobic)!"

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