Even though this image is substantially true, facts matter. Memes are not journalism.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/659835903/watch-matthew-shepard-laid-to-rest-at-national-cathedral
Shepard’s parents requested that their son’s ashes be interred at the cathedral after 20 years of reluctance. They feared his gravesite would be desecrated.
Shepard’s funeral in 1998 was met with noisy protests by anti-gay militants. The decision to seek his interment at Washington National Cathedral came as a result of the Shepards’ friendship with Bishop Robinson. Robinson contacted the cathedral dean, the Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, and Washington’s Episcopal bishop, Budde, both of whom readily agreed to the placement of Shepard’s ashes in the cathedral crypt.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/20/659122600/matthew-shepard-laid-to-rest-20-years-after-his-death
Bishop Gene Robinson who is the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and a family friend of the Shepards played an integral role in helping them secure a final resting place for their son.
"Judy Shepard called me and said, ‘you know, we’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Matt’s death, and we’ve never buried his ashes,’ " Robinson told NPR’s Scott Simon on Weekend Edition. “And she said, ‘We’re thinking it’s time.’ Someone said perhaps the National Cathedral would be a good and appropriate place.”
You know why Trump really hates her?
Because as a bishop, she can move diagonally anywhere on the board, but as a Russian pawn, he can only move one square at a time.
She’s awesome; there’s a lot of churches that do awesome work outside of the national organisations.
My childhood church was awesome and shaped a good deal of my beliefs and never tried to push hate. My former pastor from when I was a kid wrote me later (she’s still friends with my mum) and congratulated me on transitioning while apologising or the national position of anti-gay/anti-trans sentiment.
Who is Mathew Shepard?
Never forget M.S. Rip his soul. I see the same sort of hate rising up these days. It is senseless and sickening.
Nominate this bishop for sainthood for standing up to Trump.