Focus on the Family's asks for apology after Shepard murder revisted -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 11, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Prompted by a TV news investigation questioning whether Matthew Shepard's murder was an "anti-gay hate crime," the traditional-values group Focus on the Family asked NBC News to apologize for suggesting Bible believers were responsible for creating the "climate" in which the attack took place. But NBC defended "Today Show" host Katie Couric for her questions in an an Oct. 12, 1998, interview with the then-governor of Wyoming, where the attack took place.