well you dont know that is it was. the murder that spawned so-called hate crime legislation, matthew shepard, was purportedly actually killed by his lover and meth dealer, not because he was gay. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/226504/ ... hen-jimenz
whether or not its true doesn't even matter. what matters is that you cannot know someone's motivations for doing anything. you can't even trust what they say about it, only what they did