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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTony Perkins: Star Wars ‘surrenders to gay empire’
Tony Perkins: Star Wars surrenders to gay empire
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/27/tony-perkins-star-wars-surrenders-to-gay-empire/
n evangelical leader is calling on his army of followers to take action against a software company for allowing same sex relationships to be represented in a new Star Wars video game.
Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center took to the radio to denounce Biowares Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! Perkins announced during his daily radio commentary. In a galaxy not so far far away, Star Wars gamers have already gone to the dark side. The new video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has added a special feature: gay relationships.
That surprised a lot of gamers, since Bioware had made it clear in 2009 that gay and lesbian dont exist in the Star Wars universe. Since the announcement, homosexuals have been celebrating the news, but parents sure arent.
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Same gender romances with companion characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic will be a post-launch feature, the company wrote. Because The Old Republic is an MMO, the game will live on through content expansions which allow us to include content and features that could not be included at launch, including the addition of more companion characters who will have additional romance options.
A quick search of Biowares forum shows that there are probably not 300 pages of comments on the topic and very few if any of the commenters were angry about the idea. In fact, most players were more concerned that the featured had not already been released.
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Tony Perkins: Star Wars ‘surrenders to gay empire’ (Original Post)
LynneSin
Jan 2012
OP
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. Perkins needs to get a life.
And some serious counseling for his issues.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)6. He's suffering from light sabre envy. n/t
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)2. "These represent prostitutes and the moving thing at the bottom is a penis shooting sperm at them."
That's how a preacher described an early (think just after Pong) video game. Ignoring the periods (used for spacing), it looked like this with solid blocks (Pixels at the time) represented by "X"s.
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You've got to be a really sick fucker to even think about something like that.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)3. I find his lack of fabulous disturbing. n/t
tanyev
(42,564 posts)4. Huh. Didn't realize Tony was such an avid gamer.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)5. The farce is strong with this one... n/t
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)7. Fear leads to anger...
anger leads to hate... hate leads to.. suffering.
I sense much fear in him.