Now, there is a myth that homosexuals are "born that way," and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it...
The dark secret of homosexual society -- the one that dares not speak its name -- is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.
It's that desire for normality, that discontent with perpetual adolescent sexuality, that is at least partly behind this hunger for homosexual "marriage."
They are unhappy, but they think it's because the rest of us "don't fully accept them."
Homosexual "marriage" won't accomplish what they hope. They will still be just as far outside the reproductive cycle of life. And they will have inflicted real damage on those of us who are inside it...
Tolerance is not the fundamental virtue, to which all others must give way. The fundamental virtue is to love the Lord with all our heart, might, mind, and strength; and then to love our neighbor as ourself. Despite all the rhetoric of the hypocrites of homosexuality about how if we were true Christians, we would accept them fully without expecting them to change their behavior, we know that the Lord looks upon sin without the least degree of tolerance, and that he expects us to strive for perfection.
This isn't something like, "Oh this guy voted for McCain, fuck him and his game." No, it's more like, "This man is an unethical bigot whose participation in the political process is solely based on denying a person civil equality." It's not politics, it's ethics. Whether Card's anti-gay philosophies are portrayed in the game or not, everything he does is corrupted by it. He's a bigot. I'm not saying he doesn't have a right to be a bigot, I'm saying I have the write to chose whether or not I want to listen to his insanity or participate in it.ElegantSwordsman said:Pretty stupid reason to not buy a game if you ask me. If everyone put their personal agendas first, nothing would ever get done. The pretentious let's all pretend we're politically correct agenda that's permeating society is getting pretty unbearable lately. What's next, not buying a game because the developers listen to music that's different than I do? Pft.
That's not a geek thing, that's a people thing. Geeks are just people with a certain narrow interest-spectrum and a touch of social estrangement. I fully agree that internalizing moral messages without examining them is silly and stupid, but it's a rare person that actually has the presence of mind to step back and examine things thusly.Alex_P said:To clarify, what concerns me is the tendency to take the fluff and act like the thematic underpinnings of the work aren't there -- I won't say it's a geek-culture thing per se, but geeks do it all the time. And, well, those unexamined thematic underpinnings are a moral message that the audience internalizes without questioning it.
I agree with this man. Its not what the message is in a game. Because in all honesty, it is just a game. It could be a game about murdering seals and laughing at cancer patients I would get it because its fun. Not because of the oh so hilarious message its sending.pantsoffdanceoff said:Although I'm not sure how Gay Marriage would end democracy, that wouldn't stop me from buying the game. The fact that the game sucks would...
This. The game has nothing to do with his personal views so wahts the issue? If we're going to go by the logic that just because someone anti-gay is associated with the making of a game then I'm pretty sure these people need to boycott just about every single game company because theres a good chance at least one anti-gay person works at every gaming company.NoMoreSanity said:It's not like Shadow Complex has anti-gay messages in it, as long as the game is good, and it doesn't directly insult your views you shouldn't complain.
But it does, you see. It's based on his own fictional works, ones that support and carry his views on this issue. From what I can gather of the man, he wouldn't be caught dead missing an opportunity to do so.Bigeyez said:This. The game has nothing to do with his personal views so wahts the issue?NoMoreSanity said:It's not like Shadow Complex has anti-gay messages in it, as long as the game is good, and it doesn't directly insult your views you shouldn't complain.
Maybe it's a matter of degree?Bigeyez said:This. The game has nothing to do with his personal views so wahts the issue? If we're going to go by the logic that just because someone anti-gay is associated with the making of a game then I'm pretty sure these people need to boycott just about every single game company because theres a good chance at least one anti-gay person works at every gaming company.