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Same-sex romances to be available on Star Wars: The Old Republic; Religious Right wanks
MaddowBlog on MSNBC: A long time ago, in a galaxy far far, a gay...

Apparently the whole Religious Right versus same sex-romance-in-Star Wars-video-games dogfight isn't over yet.

Quick rewind: Recently, BioWare, the makers of the massively popular MMO video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, decided that one of your role playing options should be a same sex romance. Diverse, the universe is, hm?

Newsarama via Yahoo! News has the report: Same Sex Romance Comes to a Galaxy Far, Far Away. Back to MaddowBlog:

Right on cue, the usual right-wing watchdogs got their midi-chlorians in a bunch and, just like here on Earth, they are trying to eliminate these rebel alliances.

The homophobia ruins the wank. Too bad, cluelessness on the order of Cowboy Bebop at His Computer would have made for great wank. The wankiest of all the complainers were the Florida Family Association, who made the image behind the cut.

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ekaterinv
2012-03-26 10:54 pm UTC (link)

I get so ticked off when I see people freak out about the children coming in contact with game stuff. Even when they're not massive homophobes -- like, if they go nuts about video game violence.

GAMES ARE NOT ONLY FOR CHILDREN. This game in particular was made for adults, so going all "waah what about the children" in relation to it is like going "waah what about the children" in relation to an R-rated movie.

Also, anyone who lets their child play an MMO is exposing them to: racism, misogyny, homophobia, fraud, bad language (both swearing and atrocious grammar), anti-everything bigotry, rape jokes, and people who think it's cool to insult anyone who doesn't play a game the way they think it *must* be played.

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