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Stephen Mead Johnson is the Unitarian Minister in Laramie. He considers himself to be the furthest left minister in the town and advocates for the acceptance of all gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. Stephen went out to the fence where Matthew was found four times after his death, feeling that it was a powerful place to contemplate God and violence. Stephen Mead Johnson represents the most open and accepting form of religion in Laramie.
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Stephen Mead Johnson Character Timeline in The Laramie Project
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Act 1: The Word
...sometimes contradicts science or modern thought, must be believed entirely and verbatim. Next, Unitarian minster Stephen Mead Johnson , in what appears to be excerpts from an interview, talks about the dominant religions...
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Stephen Mead Johnson resumes talking about the different religions in Laramie, describing them on a political spectrum from...
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Stephen Mead Johnson mentions how many of the conservative Christian pastors in the community did not condemn what...
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Act 1: The Fence
Stephen Mead Johnson describes how the fence where Matthew Shepard was found in a coma became a sort...
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