I received an email minutes ago that contained the following letter from David Giella, one of the authors of the Matthew Shepard movie that was on NBC. Please read and do as he asks. We have to stand up for our own moral values. My apologies for the formating - I'm learning "on the job." Thanks.
"Dear Friends,
Almost four years ago, in preparing to write the script for "The Matthew Shepard Story" for NBC, I traveled with friend and co-writer, Jacob Krueger, to Casper, Wyoming to interview Judy and Dennis Shepard, Matthew's mom and dad. If anyone had justifiable claim to bitterness, it would be the Shepards, given the gruesome, widely-reported murder of their child. But we found them generous, gracious and unflinchingly honest in the face of questions that were hard enough to ask, let alone answer. Those qualities and the pain any parent feels for others who've lost a child, however, aren't what seared the Shepards into my heart forever. It was their extraordinary act of mercy.