Family Research Council Warns of Gay Relationships in The Old Republic

[Aidinthel]

"In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists!"

Erm... ..forgive me if I'm wrong about this, but isn't the Empire the bad guys in Starwars?
So, he's saying that Homosexuals are the best fighters the good guys have?

What a prat, if your going to spout homophobic bullshit at least make it coherent homophobic bullshit.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Apparently gay love is a more powerful force for good than the entire Jedi Order. It's pretty clear this guy doesn't actually know anything about Star Wars, which makes all his gratuitous references rather patronizing.

 

[Soods]

Why is homosexuality a bigger issue than the fact that you can do really evil things and are rewarded for doing them? Oh, nevermind, I get it... To them, homosexuality is a bigger crime than mass-murder.

 

[oktalist]

I read this bit in the voice of Troy McClure from The Simpsons.

"In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.

You may remember me from such films as Women And Their Four Uses and Sex Education In School: What You Need To Know To Protect Your Family From Having To Hear Anything About About Condoms Or The Pill.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I'm surprised this guy isn't blasting Bethesda for Fallout 3 and Skyrim. You can have gay relationships in those games.

 

[digital warrior]

So what your saying is Christianity is for the empire and the homosexuality are a threat to it? you know the empire is evil right? Wow actual admittion that evangelicals are sith. Though i already knew Catholics were sith from this picture.

so in closing, For the Republic you sith hate mongers.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Lol.

Tagline on their website:
"Advancing Faith, Family, and FREEDOM"

Oh, but that makes perfect sense.

See, they're referencing their freedom to shove their views down your throat.

I hope that clears things up.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Ah, Christians. Always there to try and ruin fucking everything.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

 

[Darks63]

I'd figure that by now they would have just blacklisted all bioware games by now due to their track record of putting the same sex option in their games.

 

[Sir Prize]

It's emperor Popetine!

OT: Surely these people have better things to do and worry about?

I mean other than the fact that sexuality should not be a big deal in this day and age...it's a bloody videogame, it's not real so get over it!

 

[Otaku World Order]

OHNOEZ! The Gays are going to ruin our White Bread American Ways with their icky gayness and cooties!!

Even if this turns out to be true, the FRC needs to get over itself and stop making Chistians look like intolerant wankers.

 

[Verzin]

Gay Star Wars characters: still better than Jar Jar.

this. I agree completely.
also...lol. ah the gay panicked family research council. gotta love their antics.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Family Research Council Warns of Gay Relationships in The Old Republic

but you'll probably find more people on the internet willing to fight over lightsaber colors than about who sticks what into whom.


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All I paid attention to honestly, and it's GREEN by the way! Anyone who disagrees is a gay Imperial.

you are wrong sir, PURPLE is the only true choice!!!!


OT: who is this miss-informed idiot, and why should i, or any one care what he says? it's 2012, same sex relation ships are pretty much normal now far as I'm concerned, get over it

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

On the plus side, he's not complaining about a game about magic future wizards, robots and clones all set in space detracting from Christian values. The fact that he's just spewing bigotry about the supposed homosexual relations could be seen as progress.
Not enough progress, but progress nonetheless

 

[ResonanceGames]

I noticed the persecution complex-sportin' whiner hasn't come back to defend his insane non-points.

Ever notice how privileged people start to cry when they're forced to come face-to-face with people who actually are under discrimination? They seem to confuse media and governmental representation of non-whites, non-straights, and non-Christians with those groups shoving themselves down their throats. They are completely unable to accept that other people are out there and have the right to be in games, movies, TV, and the courtroom, too.

 

[CapitalistPig]

Well I am a conservative. I don't believe in Al gore's global warming (please read up on this he has major stock in a company lobbying to push carbon credit trading). Abortion, gay rights, and whatever other social stances people take are for states to decide not the Federal government. Personally I don't give a damn one way or the other about these views though I think civil rights apply to all groups but that is for the politicians to debate. "its the economy stupid." I am a celebrated tea party member. I think if a game wants to offer this its up to them. If parents don't want their kids exposed to this media its up to them. Because its not like its not there if they are interested. Conventional conservative values have no place in debate much like the more modern viewpoints. Personally I don't think "kids" should be playing these games as they are not made for kids to begin with. Shocker I know. Judge how you will.

 

[CapitalistPig]

It advocates for "family values" and socially conservative policies, and of course maintains a hard-line stance against such things as abortion, stem-cell research, claims of man-made global warming and LGBT rights.

So this group is against freedom of choice, scientific progress, global awareness and human rights, respectively. Why do people listen to these clowns again? I must be missing something here.

The Conservative/Religious Right =/ They've been indoctrinated since childhood.

I'm sorry but i have to bite on this one. Let me start by saying I'm conservative and really don't care who's gay or not. Its really no one's business about a person's sexual orientation.

BUT, as far as indoctrination goes as a child who grew up home schooled and then went to public school after years of living in the woods under "hippy parents" I hate the church and public schools alike. THEY both indoctrinate and have their own method of wooing adolescent minds to their particular viewpoints. My first year was spent in a private catholic school where I was kicked out for saying I didn't believe in god (not true today that was youth angst.) Then I went to public school where teachers were lazy and pushed their viewpoints on their students in the exact same way a catholic school did. That drugs are okay in moderation and sex before marriage is natural and if you want to dispute that then go ahead but I know what my teachers taught me and it was biased viewpoints based on a modern without religious involvement lifestyle. Which may or may not be the case but just like everything else taught to kids that is for the parents to decide not the self entitled adults where we send our children to school. The idea that one is good and the other is bad is arbitrary. Don't throw stones from a glass house.

The over lying point I would like to note is that parents should be making these decisions. I don't support the stupid parents all in an uproar about this "thing" that a company wants to do. If it alienates their customers or liberates them that is for the company to decide.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

It advocates for "family values" and socially conservative policies, and of course maintains a hard-line stance against such things as abortion, stem-cell research, claims of man-made global warming and LGBT rights.

So this group is against freedom of choice, scientific progress, global awareness and human rights, respectively. Why do people listen to these clowns again? I must be missing something here.

The Conservative/Religious Right =/ They've been indoctrinated since childhood.

I'm sorry but i have to bite on this one. Let me start by saying I'm conservative and really don't care who's gay or not. Its really no one's business about a person's sexual orientation.

BUT, as far as indoctrination goes as a child who grew up home schooled and then went to public school after years of living in the woods under "hippy parents" I hate the church and public schools alike. THEY both indoctrinate and have their own method of wooing adolescent minds to their particular viewpoints. My first year was spent in a private catholic school where I was kicked out for saying I didn't believe in god (not true today that was youth angst.) Then I went to public school where teachers were lazy and pushed their viewpoints on their students in the exact same way a catholic school did. That drugs are okay in moderation and sex before marriage is natural and if you want to dispute that then go ahead but I know what my teachers taught me and it was biased viewpoints based on a modern without religious involvement lifestyle. Which may or may not be the case but just like everything else taught to kids that is for the parents to decide not the self entitled adults where we send our children to school. The idea that one is good and the other is bad is arbitrary. Don't throw stones from a glass house.

The over lying point I would like to note is that parents should be making these decisions. I don't support the stupid parents all in an uproar about this "thing" that a company wants to do. If it alienates their customers or liberates them that is for the company to decide.

I think you've quoted the wrong person fella - you've got my message attributed to renegade7 and renegade7's message attributed to me. Somehow the quotes have been switched.

It advocates for "family values" and socially conservative policies, and of course maintains a hard-line stance against such things as abortion, stem-cell research, claims of man-made global warming and LGBT rights.

So this group is against freedom of choice, scientific progress, global awareness and human rights, respectively. Why do people listen to these clowns again? I must be missing something here.

The Conservative/Religious Right =/ They've been indoctrinated since childhood.

See?

But irregardless I was brought up Christian, all of the local youth clubs were church run, all the local schools (pre, primary and secondary) pushed the bible from little things like three hymns every morning assembly to mandatory church services - and I can see renegade's point. I don't believe in a higher power anymore, haven't since I was about 12 or so, but previous to that I had because that was impressed on me every day until then. And I'm not from America's Bible Belt, I'm from a non-practicing middle class family from rural England. I didn't choose Christianity, it was pushed onto me from a very early age by the state, and so from that viewpoint I can fully see the 'brainwashing' argument.

 

[CapitalistPig]

It advocates for "family values" and socially conservative policies, and of course maintains a hard-line stance against such things as abortion, stem-cell research, claims of man-made global warming and LGBT rights.

So this group is against freedom of choice, scientific progress, global awareness and human rights, respectively. Why do people listen to these clowns again? I must be missing something here.

The Conservative/Religious Right =/ They've been indoctrinated since childhood.

I'm sorry but i have to bite on this one. Let me start by saying I'm conservative and really don't care who's gay or not. Its really no one's business about a person's sexual orientation.

BUT, as far as indoctrination goes as a child who grew up home schooled and then went to public school after years of living in the woods under "hippy parents" I hate the church and public schools alike. THEY both indoctrinate and have their own method of wooing adolescent minds to their particular viewpoints. My first year was spent in a private catholic school where I was kicked out for saying I didn't believe in god (not true today that was youth angst.) Then I went to public school where teachers were lazy and pushed their viewpoints on their students in the exact same way a catholic school did. That drugs are okay in moderation and sex before marriage is natural and if you want to dispute that then go ahead but I know what my teachers taught me and it was biased viewpoints based on a modern without religious involvement lifestyle. Which may or may not be the case but just like everything else taught to kids that is for the parents to decide not the self entitled adults where we send our children to school. The idea that one is good and the other is bad is arbitrary. Don't throw stones from a glass house.

The over lying point I would like to note is that parents should be making these decisions. I don't support the stupid parents all in an uproar about this "thing" that a company wants to do. If it alienates their customers or liberates them that is for the company to decide.

I think you've quoted the wrong person fella - you've got my message attributed to renegade7 and renegade7's message attributed to me. Somehow the quotes have been switched.

It advocates for "family values" and socially conservative policies, and of course maintains a hard-line stance against such things as abortion, stem-cell research, claims of man-made global warming and LGBT rights.

So this group is against freedom of choice, scientific progress, global awareness and human rights, respectively. Why do people listen to these clowns again? I must be missing something here.

The Conservative/Religious Right =/ They've been indoctrinated since childhood.

See?

But irregardless I was brought up Christian, all of the local youth clubs were church run, all the local schools (pre, primary and secondary) pushed the bible from little things like three hymns every morning assembly to mandatory church services - and I can see renegade's point. I don't believe in a higher power anymore, haven't since I was about 12 or so, but previous to that I had because that was impressed on me every day until then. And I'm not from America's Bible Belt, I'm from a non-practicing middle class family from rural England. I didn't choose Christianity, it was pushed onto me from a very early age by the state, and so from that viewpoint I can fully see the 'brainwashing' argument.

apologies. Sometimes the forum faux pas allude me. My point stands however.