Tony Perkins, the president of the
Christian conservative Family Research Council (FRC), has criticized
the game Star Wars: The Old Republic for allowing players to
enter gay relationships.
Gamemaker Bioware announced that
players could have “same gender romances with companion characters”
as part of “a post-launch feature.”
Perkins criticized the move in a
53-second radio segment titled Rebel Fleet Surrenders to Gay
Empire.
“In a new Star Wars game, the
biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists!” Perkins
says in the bulletin.
“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. Bioware, the company that developed the
game, said it's launching a same-sex romance component to satisfy
some complaints. That surprised a lot of gamers, since Bioware had
made it clear in 2009 that gay and lesbians don't exist in the Star
Wars universe. Since the announcement, homosexuals have been
celebrating the news, but parents sure aren't. On the game's
website, there are more than 300 pages of comments – a lot of them
expressing anger that their kids will be exposed to this Star Warped
way of thinking. You can join them by logging on and speaking up.
It's time to show companies who the Force is really with!” (The
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