According to Westboro Baptist Church's GodHatesFags.com, gay murder victim Matthew Shepard has been in Hell (as I write this) for 4, 178 days.
The site informs readers that "All the candlelight vigils [and] all the acts of Congress … will not shorten his sentence by … one day, [and] will not buy him one drop of water to cool his tongue.'" It then urges readers, and of course, homosexuals, to have faith and repent.
Uh?
Okay. It's like George Michael said: You gotta have faith.
I have no problem with faith. I have faith in many things: I have it in my boyfriend, whom I know would only leave me for Chris Brown (That's his one cheat. Mine's James Marsden — he doesn't bite or hit women); I have it in comic books, knowing that new issues will hit the stands every Wednesday; in my roommate, who'd do anything for me except get rid of that allergy-inducing sea-mule she calls a cat; and even in the writers of LOST. (They'll pull it together somehow, right?)
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2010.