The church had become notorious for staging extravagantly hateful demonstrations at memorial services for gay AIDS victims, shouting at mourners and carrying obscene placards. As they pushed themselves through “a week when absolutely nothing made sense,” they were told that a group they’d never heard of, the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church, was planning to picket their son’s funeral. His parents, Judy and Dennis, were able to fly from Saudi Arabia, where Dennis was working, just in time to be by his side as his heart failed.
The twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student had been robbed, beaten, tied to a fence, and left for dead in a homophobic attack by two men.
An unseasonable snowstorm hit Casper, Wyoming, the day of Matthew Shepard’s funeral.
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