sami jo wrote...
@UpiH: OSC hasn't just said some fairly nasty things about gays, he has advocated violent overthrow of the government if same-sex couples are allowed to marry (apparently on the grounds that gays are already allowed heterosexual marriage)
"In the
first place, no law in any state in the United States now or ever
has forbidden homosexuals to marry. The law has never asked that a man
prove his heterosexuality in order to marry a woman, or a woman hers in
order
to marry a man.
Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her
husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the
law.
And, in fact, many homosexual men have done precisely that, without any
legal
prejudice at all" Link
His rhetoric in response to gay marriage ammendments has been:
"How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of
law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts
to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government
and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will
respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society
where they will expect to marry in their turn." Link1, Link2
Legal marriage, at least in the U.S. confers a number of legal benefits, and if you had ever been denied entry to your life-partner's hospital room by his/her homophobic family that had not seen him/her in years, those rights would be particularly important to you. He is free to believe and say whatever he likes (though advocating violent overthrow of the government walks a nifty legal line that may or may not be a crime). He uses his income to advocate the oppression of others, and as such, I choose not to financially support him. His views also tend to bleed into his writing, which would make anything he writes fairly unappealing to me.
Wagner was a phenomenal musician and a raving anti-semite. I would not have paid him to play at my (Jewish) wedding. Comparisons with long dead artists of questionable morality who cannot benefit financially from me appreciating their work and use that money to help oppress me are not entirely appropriate. I find it entirely appropriate to ask if BW intends to alter the treatment of gay/lesbian/bi characters or women in the DA universe.
Again, I have no objection to OSCs personal beliefs or expression of those beliefs until his expression starts interfering with my ability to express my own beliefs. I'd be tickled twenty shades of pink if the government got out of the business of telling consenting adults what they can do together entirely.
In light of this, I must say I would not financialy support someone who would call me his mortal enemy for advocating gay marriage and equality.
I'm bisexual myself, and I was not sexually abused. Any psychologist could assure him his assertion that homosexuality is caused by abuse is lunacy in it's own right.
If he merely had personal fealings of dislike, I'd resapect that. But to say he advocates overthrowing any government that would allow same sex marriage makes him an opressor in his own right and
my enemy.
I will not buy this comic book. I hope Bioware won't involve him any further in their franchises.
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