Matthew Shepherd and Jesse Dirkhising

With the weirdness in California going on, it got me to thinking about a story I had heard about several years ago.

We all have heard of Matthew Shepherd, MTV did a movie about him, HBO did a movie about him, he’s become an icon of the homosexual community. (If you don’t know, Matthew was beaten and killed because he was a homosexual.)

If you do a search on google you’ll find that: 501,000 pages refer to “Matthew Shephard” and about 6,5700,000 for “Matthew Shepherd”.

That’s huge.

Now, let me ask you how many of you have heard of Jesse? Probably not many. I even forgot his name and had to do several google searches to find him.

Here’s the thing, around the same time as the Matthew thing, Jesse was also beaten and murdered, but with a twist: he was raped, beaten and killed by two homosexual men.

If you do a search on google for Jesse you’ll get about 19,500 pages.

So here I am to post a reminder not to forget about Jesse so the next time someone brings up Matthew, please remember to bring up Jesse.

Links to Jesse sites:

Wiki: Jesse Dirkhising
Voices of Unreason
WorldNet Daily
Covenant News
Traditional Values Coalition

Note: I don’t necessarily approve of anything else on these webpages, I’m just linking to their article about Jesse.