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<div>'''''The Laramie Project''''' is a vulgar, violent play being promoted in schools in the [[United States]] as part of the [[homosexual agenda]]. The play is a one-sided representation of events surrounding the 1998 murder of [[Matthew Shepard]] in Laramie, [[Wyoming]].<br />
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Developed by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, this play first opened at the Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company in February 2000. It was also performed at the Union Square Theater in [[New York City]], and again in November 2002 in Laramie. [[HBO]] subsequently made a movie based on this play. Since then it has spread to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of high schools across the United States, typically without parents having any idea what is in it. Some school boards have rejected attempts to bring this play to schools in their districts.<br />
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''The Laramie Project'' distorts the facts and completely omits how "Shepard's killers, in their first interview since their convictions, tell '20/20's' Elizabeth Vargas that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays."<ref name="20/20">[http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1 20/20 News Story on Matthew Sheppard]</ref> <br />
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Shepard's friends claimed even before the details of the crime were known that it was a hate-motivated crime. After the crime was discovered, Shepard's friends "were calling the County Attorney's office, they were calling the media and indicating Matthew Shepard is gay and we don't want the fact that he is gay to go unnoticed."<ref name="20/20" /><br />
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[[Westboro Baptist Church]] pastor [[Fred Phelps]] is portrayed in ''The Laramie Project''. Phelps and members of his congregation occasionally picket performances of the play with inspirational messages for those faced with the adversity of homosexuality.<br />
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A troll, in [[Internet]] parlance, is an entity or character that purposely disrupts a conversation via [[usenet]] or [[email]], a comment thread on a [[blog]], or another sort of website. For example, on [[Wiki | Wikis]], users who purposely make disruptive edits are considered trolls. Many people consider this type of activity childish behavior, others consider them deviant minds of opposition whereby infiltration by deceit is normal practice. They pretend to be of common thinking, at the same time plotting anti-social crimes. The troll can otherwise be known as a [[frenemy]] or as a [[hoax plant]] lurking for an opportunity to create trouble. <br />
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The term originated in the early 1990's, an abbreviation of the term "trolling for suckers" (trolling being an angling technique to seek fish). An [[Internet]] troll will lock their target, bait the line and spread the net to catch their goal (unwitting victim).<br />
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A troll is a mythical creature, like a giant but mostly portrayed as a dwarf. Sometimes, trolls live under bridges and eat children.<br />
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