First, he was not gay. He was a homo, he was a queer, he was a fruit, but he was NOT gay.
I'd call you an ass, but it'd be an insult to hard-working beasts of burden around the world, while we're playing with semantics.
There is nothing gay about the queer "lifestyle".
No more than the straight lifestyle.
It's a loveless, passionless, promiscuous quest for the next orgasm, and it's a sure journey to early death.
Let's see...I love my boyfriend deeply, when I'm with him, I likely have more passion in one night than you could hope to have in your entire miserable life, and we're monogamous. And guess what? Many gays die from suicide (And with such cheerful folk like you telling us what we're all about, I wonder why...) and being beaten to death by rabid homophobes like yourself. But it's really all our fault, right?
Second, we absolutely refuse to portray positively a person who identifies himself by what he does with his dick.
I don't. Being gay is a small fragment of who I am. A mere facet. It's schmucks like you that pull that one fact out, and make that bit my entire persona.
Third, exactly what did the queer do that was "heroic"?
I'll agree he wasn't a "hero" per se, but rather a tragic victim of a couple of monsters. Better?
America's concept of heroism had degenerated abysmally when a murdered homo is deemed heroic.
And yours is moreso when you venerate killers over a human being. When love is bad, and hatred is condoned.
Fourth, by what egregious stretch of logic could his death be called martyrdom? Martyrs are men and women of God who are killed for refusing to abandon their faith in Him.
Fuck. You. Martyrs are those who die for an ideal. Maybe Matthew doesn't fit this ideal, but:
a.) Sure as fuck, he fits it better than the thugs who killed him, and
b.) It is NOT something intrinsically religious.
You defecate on the memory of every martyr by comparing them to that sick, sorry little pissant.
And you defile the name of humanity by discarding someone, saying, more or less, that they had it coming, purely on the basis of who he chooses to sleep with.
You sicken me, you arrogant waste of flesh.