A MAD US hate group, the Family Research Council (FRC), has declared war on a multi-million dollar video game – Star Wars: The Old Republic – because its creators decided to include a same-sex romance component to the game in a future patch.
Despite the fact that the patch, according to this report, is completely optional and players can choose whether or not they want to romance companions of the same sex, Tony Perkins, FRC’s lunatic-in-chief, recently appeared in a video, saying:
In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! 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 ‘lesbian’ 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!
Of course, video games have long been under fire from Christian clowns, like the pair of lovelies pictured below. He is an unnamed granddad, concerned over the “totally demonic” content of Pokemon, and the “addictive” nature Minecraft, which so distracts children that they:
Don’t go back to reading their Bibles, or study the Word.
She is Watchmen Broadcasting’s co-founder, Dorothy Spauling, and together they have managed to create one of the funniest video clips I have seen in a very long while. Click on pic to watch the rant.
Hat tip: BarrieJohn
RANDY Roberts Potts, grandson of one of America’s most famous televangelists – Oral Roberts – is a man on a mission … to convince “conservative” Bible Belt communities that gay relationships are more than just a matter of sex, but about love and companionship, and “being human”.
Randy Roberts Potts and his granddad, Oral Roberts (click on image for video)
In an interview with CNN, Potts, who spent years of his life “running away from his sexual identity and his family name” was prompted to come out of the closet in the wake of recent reports about young men committing suicide because of their homosexuality.
He made an It Gets Better video dedicated to a gay uncle who committed suicide, and is now promoting his Gay Agenda tour through the Bible Belt.
Potts, who married aged 20 and has three children, revealed that he has “a tense relationship” with his mother, who still insists that :
Homosexuality leads to death and the Bible condemns it.
Asked what his late grandfather would have made of his mission, Potts – who is about to marry his male partner – said:
If he was still around and in his prime, this might be a cause he would take up. I know he had a lot of fear about homosexuality, but he might have been more accepting if he were younger.
Hat tip: Canada Dave
WHILE the Archbishop of York, the toothy Dr John Sentamu, was running his mouth off yet again about the horrors of same-sex marriage – “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is” – a group of Christians turned out at a gay pride event in Chicago to apologise for the way the church has treated homosexuals.
The moment Tristan hugged Nathan. Photo Michelle at maladjustedmedia.com
Nathan, member of the Marin Foundation who is pictured being hugged by a man in his underwear, joined members of the foundation, wearing T-shirts with “I’m Sorry” written on it. There were also signs that said, “I’m sorry that Christians judge you,” “I’m sorry the way churches have treated you,” “I used to be a Bible-banging homophobe, sorry.”
Said Nathan in a blog post entitled I hugged a man in his underwear. And I am proud:
We wanted to be an alternative Christian voice from the protestors that were there speaking hate into megaphones.
Nathan added:
What I loved most about the day is when people ‘got it’. I loved watching people’s faces as they saw our shirts, read the signs, and looked back at us. Responses were incredible. Some people blew us kisses, some hugged us, some screamed thank you. A couple ladies walked up and said we were the best thing they had seen all day. I wish I had counted how many people hugged me. One guy in particular softly said, ‘Well, I forgive you’.
What touched Nathan most – literally – was getting a hug from a man dressed solely in white underwear who “had a pack of abs like no one else.”
That man turned out to be Tristan, who runs his own computer consulting company called Tech Direct 2 U in Joliet, Illinois. Nathan made contact with Tristan, who told him that, as a youngster:
I was enthralled with the Bible and ‘the word of God. I then read the Bible cover to cover and saw so much hate, arrogance, and oppression, so I started to ask questions. The blatant disregard for human life and especially for women was just appalling to me. The more answers I received from my [Catholic] priest and other people of religion just became too much for me.
Tristan added:
So then, around age 16, I ‘lost my faith.’ I searched for a couple of years and looked into other beliefs just to come to the same conclusion. I practiced Zen Buddhism for a few years and started reading more into the universe and science. I then realized that I was just an atheist and have been an atheist for over ten years now. I feel that people have the right to their own beliefs and their own lives, and should do whatever is in their power to be happy in this life.
RIGHT now, there’s a blazing exchange taking place on the BBC World Service’s Facebook page, following a broadcast on religion this morning which utterly infuriated me.
Alain de Botton
Getting wound up by the squads of religionists who get a disproportionate amount of airtime on the BBC is something that happens to people like me far too often – but in this case it was an ATHEIST who got me spitting tacks.
Alain de Botton, philosopher and author of a new book entitled Religion for Atheists, argues in a piece – now posted as an audio file on Facebook – that atheists have a lot to learn about cohesiveness, morality and aesthetics from religious communities. WTF!
According to this blurb, de Botton’s book:
Explains ways in which atheists should look to religion for some solutions to contemporary ills. In doing so, he hopes to move the tired old debate between atheists and believers onto more fruitful ground.
Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton proposes that agnostics and atheists should stop mocking religions and start stealing from them. For too long, he believes, we have faced a false choice between either swallowing doctrines or doing away with consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas.
RALPH Shortey is an Oklahoma state senator who this week got himself branded as “hilariously delusional” after he tabled bill that would ban the use of aborted human foetuses in food products.
According to this report, the ridiculous Republican and ardent Christian pro-lifer said he filed the bill after reading that an anti-abortion group – Children of God for Life – had called on the public to boycott products of several major food companies.
Wingnut Sen Ralph Shortey is 'hilariously delusional'
COGFL claimed that the companies had partnered with a biotech enterprise that produces artificial flavour enhancers. One corporation, PepsiCo did partner with food product development company Senomyx to develop a new low-calorie sweetener, but Pepsico denied using foetal tissue in its research in an April 2011 email to Children of God for Life.
In this report, Shortey was quoted as saying:
As a pro-life advocate, it kind of disturbed me that we would use aborted embryos or aborted human fetuses to extract stem cells and use them for research to basically make things taste better.
He admitted that he had never heard of any instances of this happening, but decided that his bill would, at the very least, give any food companies toying with the idea an “ultimatum.”
The legislation, known as SB 1418, states:
No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients.
Federal food safety officials have never heard of such a thing happening. A US Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said that the agency has never received any reports of foetuses being used in food production.
Shortey, elected in 2010, has introduced a spate of dottyl bills including denying Oklahoma citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in the state. Another bill he concocted would have allowed police to confiscate the homes and cars of illegal immigrants. He also tried to advance a bill that would have required presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship before being allowed on Oklahoma’s primary ballot.
None of Shortey’s controversial bills have become law.
As news began circulating of his latest legislative priority, the Twitterverse erupted with disbelief and amusement.
One person wrote:
This may conflict with my dream of eating aborted fetus dumplings, but Sen Ralph Shortey is hilariously delusional.
Another said:
Today in Oklahoma crazy: Sen Ralph Shortey (R) proposes banning ‘human fetuses in food’. Didn’t know it was a thing.
Hat tip: Buffy
FACED with the realisation that her pet cat had died after a grim encounter with a pastor, a five-year-old Central Texas girl – on being told that her pet, Moody, was now “in heaven” – declared:
I don’t believe in Heaven anymore, Moody’s just dead.
Moody, left, and the godly Bartlett
Moody, according to this report, died after falling, or having been thrown off a 40ft-high bridge by Rick Bartlett, pastor of the Bastrop Christian Church. He now faces a charge of animal cruelty which could result in a $4,000 dollar fine and a year’s imprisonment.
He trapped the child’s pet in a cage after having had trouble with feral cats in his garden. He then placed Moody in his pick-up truck, where it was “forgotten” for three days.
The pastor then drove the cat to the police.
An animal protection officer noticed a name tag, including the phone number of Moody’s owners, Sarah and Eddy Bell, on the cat’s collar. The officer offered to take Moody back to his owners but police said Bartlett told them he’d take the cat back himself since they were his neighbours.
The kitschy sign outside the Bartletts' Bastrop home
Later on the same day, a park visitor discovered Moody’s near lifeless body on the bank of the Colorado River, some 40-50 feet below the bridge.
There is a possibility that the animal had jumped from the truck, rather than having been thrown, but but in the eyes of the law, the animal cruelty charges are the same since Bartlett admitted to police that the animal was in his care.
Moody was Sarah and Eddy Bell’s cat for 11 years. They said that trying to explain his death to their daughter has proved “challenging”.
Hat tip: Remigius
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